Educational years

Green and she made class fun, interesting and easy to understand. Until later in the year when we had to read Huckleberry Finn which was a classical novel but I could not keep my eyes open during it. It was very boring for me and I didn’t really understand it. Long novels have never really captured my interest. Sophomore year we read probably the most stories of any previous year, but they were shorter and more interesting to me. I found them easier to follow along with. Also we…

and more. Throughout the past two years of physical education, there have been changes in my fitness. The work in and outside of school I put in have affected my fitness scores. To start out, I will compare my fitness test scores. My baseline for my freshman year 12-minute run was 2425 meters. My posttest was 2500. Sophomore year, I got 2400 baseline and 2600 posttest. For the swim test, my ninth grade baseline was 37 walls and 38 as a posttest. Sophomore year I swam 38 walls for both tests.…

1. The name of the assessment was originally an acronym for the states that were originally included in the assessment, which were “Wisconsin (WI), Delaware(D), and Arkansas(A)”, but Arkansas “dropped out”, so it later became the “World-class Instructional Design and Assessment”. Now it is just known by “WIDA” (Mission & the WIDA Story). The WIDA is only given in English, I could not find any information about the assessment being done in any other language, which I believe is because the…

occasionally encourage his classmates to participate by giving them compliments and praise. Angel has also continued to make improvements with his behavior. He will occasionally whine when he doesn’t get his way, but has not had any meltdowns this year like he has had in the past.…

I was a kid. It wasn’t until second grade and third grade that I began writing stories and illustrate pictures in my composition books. By doing so, it has immensely improved my reading and writing skills over the years. With added practice and picking up new styles throughout the years it has really shaped my writing all the way through graduate school. It’s not perfect, but I am determined to further my reading and writing skills. Many people have a different idea of what a true reader is.…

click. Especially if that person is your best friend. Sure, I have a lot of pals now, but Aaron Klein has been my best friend for almost eight years. This is our story. Third grade was the start of it all. Aaron and I had seen each other around before, but it never came to anything. We both had Mrs. Gregory for third grade. Sometime near the middle of the year Mrs. Gregory assigned a new seating chart. Slightly discouraged, since I was a shy kid, I slowly maneuvered my desk to my new place in…

“Koen?” Mr. Blume, my sixth grade teacher read off the roll sheet. “Here!” Koen said as he raised his hand. It was the first day of my sixth grade year. I was sitting straight up in my desk while wearing my brand new school clothes. My mom had curled my hair for this special occasion, and I was even allowed to wear a bit of mascara on my eyes. “Mia?” Mr. Blume read. Another girl sitting across the room from me had perked up, and her and I simultaneously shouted, “Here!” “Mia Aicher?” Mr.…

friends again but a little sad too because I loved learning and exploring new things when I was in US, it was fascinating to me. I finished my 7th grade which left mid-way in my family’s school as I missed half of the year and none of the school accepted students mid-way. That school year ended, I knew that I had to reapply to my old school and I was confident that I would get in but that did not come out as I expected. The day my mother told me this I cried for days, pleading my mother and…

winter night in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. On the fifth of January, I was introduced to the world, I was born on the coldest day of 1999, at a frigid -30 degrees. I’ve been blessed with the two greatest parents in the world that have been married for 19 years. My family was completed on May 24, 2001, when my little brother Mason was born. Mason and I were not given our names for any specific reason our parents just liked the names. James was my middle name that my parents had given me which came from…

I plan to become certified to teach grades EC – 6th. My strong desire is to teach 5th grade. After reviewing the website to locate the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) writing standards for the 5th grade level, I found that only 4th and 7th grade had writing standards. I am not sure what this means, but I am going to assume that it means that only students at these grade levels take the writing portion of the examine. With a testing pattern such as this, I plan to ensure that my…