Learning by teaching

My Teaching Journey As I reflect back into my early childhood, I remember migrating to the United States with my mother leaving my brothers and sisters behind. It was really tough adapting to a new environment where the climate and the language were foreign to me. The first year of primary school was one of the hardest for me. Making new friends was not an easy task, I remember while all the children played with each other during the lunch period, I sat quietly and ate my lunch. When it was…

The students were all grouped together and the activities were engaging, Danielson’s 3C, Engaging Students in Learning. The lesson was effective in getting the students to create and construct sentences. It allowed them to work on writing with something that they created. The construction of the art project was managed with some difficulties. The assistant teacher…

classes, including math, science, and social studies. Teachers need to present strategies that will aid students with being successful in their classroom. However, it vital for educators to know and understand what strategies will impact students’ learning the most. After teachers have gained an understanding of which strategies to utilize, they must present the strategies to students, explain the importance of the strategies, and aid students in understanding how to…

Intro: TPACK is a vital framework for sustaining knowledge needed by a teacher for effective pedagogical practice in a technology enhanced learning environment (Howell, 2012: p. 30). During the weeks of 6 through till 9, a series of mentoring sessions went on. Students were to mentor the other students in class their strengths that were stated in the TPACK task two assignments. The students also had to be mentored by the other students on the weaknesses that they had provided in their TPACK…

In the video the Power of Two they define co- teaching as two teachers actively engaged in a single heterogeneous groups of students in the same setting, where both teachers are held accountable. The video also explains that co-teaching consist of a 5 part framework; one component of this framework is classroom practice. Classroom practice consists of six different co-teaching strategies, each strategy has its advantages and disadvantages and as co-teachers it’s our job to decide the appropriate…

1. How does it feel teaching today compared to when you first started? Throughout the years, did you learn any new teaching methods? If so, which one was the most efficient? What has been your favorite aspect of teaching all these years? There is a lot more challenges and expectations related to the students. For example, I’ve noticed that children have more needs nowadays than years ago when I first taught. I have to teach a lot more using different modalities and do a lot of small group…

the learning come alive and showed the students what the various units of measurement look like. This is useful because the process of measuring objects is utilized on a daily basis, and it is important to have a solid foundation as a younger student. I do think that the students would enjoy this lesson because it allows them to go outside and measure the football field using yardsticks and rulers and determining the difference in size between them. The teacher who goes by the name of teaching…

the practicum is so designed that collaboration and feedback possibilities are scheduled on a daily basis where the Associate Teacher and the student teacher discuss lesson planning, classroom management and teaching practice. I have been placed Ryde Secondary College that partially selective high school that mean mathematics classes is operating in two different categories such as selective classes and normal classes that is consists of local students who lives in their catchment areas and…

decades, teachers have been taught the textbook is the curriculum. Course and course work starts at the beginning of textbook and the goal is to get through as much of the textbook as possible by the end of the year. This teaching concept has left students with gaps in their learning and understanding and has forced them onward when skills may have not been mastered yet. And…

1) Describe what was taught in this virtual lesson. What teaching methods did you observe? How effective were these activities and methods in teaching the TEKS identified at the beginning of the video? What was taught was poetry and their sound devices. The students went over the vocabulary because you assigned several kids to look up that information on the dictionary. Then you read some poems to give examples of each word in the vocabulary. I know that if you had the students you would have…