I could have ever imagined. The teacher that I shadowed was none other than the astounding, Debbie Alt. Ms. Alt showed me what it truly means to care about students. She reminded me so much of the effective educators in the Robert L. Fried’s book, “Passionate Teacher”. For my content instruction I focused on the high-leverage practice number ten :Engaging in strategic relationship-building conversations with students. I worked closely with six particular students who struggled with reading and…
The subjects coming from the psychology undergraduate student pool can’t be considered to be representative of the extended population. One element of ethical issues involving the use of human subjects, specifically psychology students, is the coercion of people to participate in a research. According to Leak, (1981) the unequal student-teacher power relationship doesn’t leave room for free consent, and although students view research experience positively, they recognize the existence…
both veteran and new teachers to choose the new principal, it well-received; therefore, as the new principal, following through with a similar collaborative style would likely be successful. In my perspective, the principal needs to develop a strategic plan that creates a shared vision and goals with a variety of stakeholders, provides professional development for the staff to achieve those goals, and reaches into the community to develop partnerships and positive relationships. Initially the…
key factors in regards to the recommendations from the Ministry of Education (2013) report for Pasifika families working with the special education services. Pasifika education is a shared responsibility and therefore the report will be applied to teachers, speech language therapist’s (SLT), families and learners. Improve professional cultural intelligence and sensitivity The first priority focuses on up-skilling of Pasifika and non-Pasifika professionals to increase satisfaction and the…
In the article, Cultural Competence in Education, Strait emphasizes the importance of culturally competent educators. Culture competence is the skill to effectively teach students who come from a culture different from our own. Four basic cultural competence skills are mentioned in this article: Research reveals that cultural competence leads to more successful teaching and learning. Basford & Keith (2014), also explore the idea of culturally responsive schools. In the article Ask, Don’t Tell:…
Education by relationship of student and teacher has a significant impact in developing the individual, but self-education and awareness of oneself and their role as an individual frees themselves from their oppressors. Ultimately, their goal is that of liberation theologists, to use…
The Importance of Being Reflective: It is important for teachers to look back and reflect on themselves and their teaching. Reflecting allows one to see where their strengths and weaknesses are. Then you can use what you know to improve and utilize more of what 's working well, and fix or remove what 's not. During the 30 hour practicum, we were expected to record specific information and events. Afterwards, we had to reflect and write what we learnt from those observations. This allowed us to…
working as a team. In order to nurture students to develop these skills, we as teachers need to also evolve our teaching skills by providing learning opportunities that stimulate future work environments. Research shows that cognitively challenging tasks is one of the most effective methods for achieving this goal. Cognitively challenging tasks are open ended tasks that may have more than one answer and a variety of approaches to solving the problems. Teachers are implementing these tasks…
In “Home and Away: The tensions of community, literacy, and identity,” Bronwyn T. Williams writes to researchers and teachers so that they understand that because everyone comes from different backgrounds. They all will not learn the same way and have various discourses. Specifically, it is said that the primary discourse, learned through our family, is the root of these conflicts. It becomes necessary to construct a primary new dominant discourse in order to resolve such conflicts. In order to…
Martin and she is a Special Education Teacher at Crestwood High School in Cresco, Iowa. I found questions to ask that would to me into the right direction. I was hoping to get a special education teacher more than a student aid because I felt that a special education teacher would have more to offer when it comes to different factors dealing with IEC and would also have their hands more involved in the students learning. I also wanted to know about how students with special needs still get the…