Head teacher

Competency Statement IV To establish positive and productive relationships with families Functional Area 11: Families Promoting a family environment for children is important for them to feel comfortable and confident while learning. As a teacher, you can send a letter home notifying parents to send a family portrait to demonstrate the variety of race and the value of having a family or love one. Using creativity, you can cut out turkeys and tape their portraits on the turkeys. The top label…

As the end of the school year approaches teachers and head teachers turn their thoughts towards helping children through their forthcoming transitions. Whether this is helping to prepare them for their first day at school, their new class or a move to a new school or country. It is critical that a child is prepared for the changes taking place and there are many things schools and parents can do to help make the transitions smooth. First of all open communication between home and school is…

friend Harold Appo Haynes in 1917. He later became an important role in the African American school systems. Martha received a master’s degree in math in 1930 from the University of Chicago. That same year she founded the math department at Miner teachers College. This department helped…

Head Start is a program which philosophy is that children learn better when entirely implicated and self-directed in their learning. Our current curriculum is play based. We use the goals and domains set forth by Teaching Strategies Goal. The center has five large rooms, four of the rooms are school year program and one is extended day program. The room for extended day program has an equal design for children of 4-5 years old. The room capacity is up to 20 children, there also work 1 lead…

peers. Therefore, you want your children to be socially and emotionally ready for the upcoming stages in their life. Children being in a safe and positive environment makes them feel comfortable and helps them learn and develop new skills. As a teacher you can further work on initiatives to help grow your students ' self-esteem and encourage an ongoing success. You can accomplish this task by working on consistently…

adapted. It is important to research and understand the growing culture of teachers that employ project-based teaching in the classroom. This method has been working well with the high school students of this generation and it works to build useful life skills for whichever path a student might choose. In project-based teaching it is critical to be flexible, value input and reflection, and focus more on the students than the teacher. The manner of teaching at William Smith High School has…

also to master. From a young age students start building their vocabulary through several strategies. The most obvious one is of course reading. Children of all ages love stories and fairytales. They love to sit down and listen to their parents or teachers go on and on about situations that would only happen in their dreams. But as children grow up, their love for reading, more often than not, diminishes little by little. Either because they are not interested or because they simply have other…

to school on this very sizzling August day. I don't want to see Ms. Lotarski, my teacher. I think she’s going to be as vicious as a tyrant. However, Mom’s forcing me to go, because “I need a good education.” I don’t know what that is, but it sounds boring. Mom also tells me that I’m supposed to bring an apple to show appreciation towards Ms. Lotarski. In cartoons I’ve seen students bring apples to give to their teachers. We drive over to the market to buy an apple. Although we have apples at…

mistakes of the past. For instance, the incidents leading up to the defunding of the Head Start program in Prince George’s county. Serve acts of physical abuse lead up to the program being reevaluated and finally defunded. One instance included a child crying and being so ill supervised that they were able to leave the school and walk home. “According to the report, the child was unsupervised for about 50 minutes, and Head Start did not know where she was for about 75 minutes” (Wilkins 2016).…

These past few months as an official Teacher Candidate has especially solidified my idea in the way that I plan on running my classroom…