Landmark Education

In this case study, Rich Thorpe is an extremely passionate first-year teacher at West Alton High School. Rich was very grateful to have received this job, and has put a lot of effort into his teaching, despite the pressures of a first year teacher. For the first three quarters of the year, he has had good classroom management skills, and his students respect him as a teacher. He clearly spends time thinking about his students because when he noticed a few of them were struggling toward the end…

Tina’s social emotional functioning was assessed using the BASC-2. The BASC-2 assess Tina’s internalizing (i.e., behaviors that manifest internally such as depression or anxiety) and externalizing (i.e., behaviors that are more readily observed by others) behaviors, and adaptive skills. Children rated in the typical range (T scores 40-60) are considered to be in the average range indicating that may sometimes display the behavior in question, but in a range that is similar to other children…

I feel that the lessons and experience that I received during my Internship I course was instrumental in my development as a classroom teacher. I will honestly say that when I was told that I would be interning in a fifth grade class, I was more than a little apprehensive due to the fact that I have been in mostly lower grades. I was under the impression that the fifth graders would be harder to manage. I believe that I was placed in the perfect class to allow for the most growth and…

Pope (Pope, 2001), throughout the students’ years in the education system, all of them learned how to do school, in one form or another. Each student developed their own tricks and trades to deal with issues they were personally facing and to help deal with issues that developed because of their school’s curriculum. As Egan (2001) stated “We all recognize the difference between genuine knowledge and accumulated codes – we talk of education as against training, wisdom as against “book…

School uniforms are not universally utilized throughout the world. In fact, across the globe people of color are significantly more likely to attend a school that mandates uniforms. Given this, one might postulate that communities of color value school uniforms and therefore, utilize them more often. This paper will suggest that this is not the case and demonstrate the role that colonialism and systemic oppression play in the widespread use of uniforms on students of color. This is increasingly…

say goals I mean accomplishment not too easy to obtain but a little challenging to appreciate the hard work. My short term goal to being successful both in the military and as a civilian is to obtain my Bachelor of Science degree this April 2015. Educations has always been a part of my development but to apply it towards a degree completion is hard work and dedication. My degree mean so much to me because I know I will have the knowledge and skills to help individual live a healthy and…

Introduction Six years ago I probably would have said that an ideal productive classroom was one where all the students sat quietly in their chairs, whilst the teacher either walked around the room or sat at her own desk working. Specifically, during my graduate semesters I have really adapted and altered my ideal curricular design based on the research and experiences that have had a part exploring. There is so much more to a classroom of students beyond the surface. With every aspect from…

This weeks readings examined the role of social constructivism in education as a pedagogy and practice rather than simply as an educational philosophy. Beck and Kosnik’s (2007) article focuses on the role of social constructivism in preservice education and provide examples of this pedagogy put into practie. Both Elkind (2004) and Carson (2005) discuss preservice education as well as the implications of educators using a constructivist approach to teaching and learning. Elkin’s (2004) article…

Plagiarism one of the main problems in schools is simple to describe and talk about but most people do it still so it is hard to avoid. It is using another person 's idea or a part of their work and pretend that it is your own. Plagiarize is no more than stealing someone 's work without citing them but as stated before most people continue to do it. One main reason for this is that people who plagiarize don’t know everything that is within plagiarism. People who plagiarize effect competition…

activities or clubs or to associate myself with different people and these same activities, clubs, and people have taught me about life and have developed my personality and skills. The things that have changed my life the most are my tennis team, my education, and service through my church. From the age of eight until the 2014 tennis season I played tennis but never took it very seriously. The summer before my sophomore year my family moved into the Plymouth-Canton district; I felt out of…