2004. p.222). Concerning the 1st listening task, there are stages of pre/while/post-listening activities integrating speaking, writing (short expression: notetaking) and listening skills. There is a sequence in the stages. The rubrics are clear so the teacher monitors the task. It involves group work in the writing part. The activities aim to increase creativity and evoke students emotions. It is teaching oriented…
In his essay, “On Being Insane in Sane Places” D.L Rosenhan discusses a series of experiments that he participated in involving psychiatric institutions and the effects of misdiagnoses of psychological disorders on the patients admitted to the hospitals. He sought to find out the validity of diagnoses and if insanity is in patients themselves or is caused by the environment they are in. Rosenhan’s research proved that the labels associated with mental illness, particularly schizophrenia, have a…
Topic of Introduction Self-analysis is a way for one to detect his or her own personality traits, reflect on the behaviors that can have either have a negative or positive influence and improve on the weaknesses moving forward. It is useful because it gives one the opportunity to identify traits that will enable the person to ease through any type of situation. Along with my already-known strengths and weaknesses, I took the Felder and Soloman Learning Styles and Strategies assessment to help…
for Marie-Laureto study and learn. When she was newly sightless, he made her walk the same route every day until she learned it. After they moved to Saint-Malo, her father began to make another model of the new neighborhood. A neighbor took his notetaking and observing as a terrorist planning to act and reported him to the police, which took him away. After her father “has been missing without word for twenty-nine days” (Doerr 230), Madame Manec insists on taking Marie-Laure out into the city,…
His bright blue hair(freshly dyed), a tongue piercing, and his left ear pierced with a simple purple diamond stud makes Chris Shore stand out in the SAP office. Chris, a petite, 20 year-old man sits at the front desk attentively. Shore works in the SAP(Student Assistance Program) office assisting any student, staff member, and alike that walks through the front door. Chris assists a student that comes in asking about child care paperwork. He gets up and looks for the paperwork briskly--making…
Servant leadership is built on the concept that a leader should set aside his or her self- interest for a higher purpose. That higher purpose is the improvement and building-up of the people in the organization (Shaw & Newton, 2014). Educator’s as a servant leader is a powerful and heavy mantle placed on the shoulders of those who choose education as a profession. There are certain criteria’s that must be met and upheld by those who teach. People who decide to teach are faced with…
An informative step toward understanding what it takes for an EIL student to become successful is the connection that the teacher and learner should have. This connection is the positive interaction between teacher and student. It is this connection that will benefit both the student and the teacher. Unquestionably, teacher and student should be able to do their part to have this connection and to improve. Therefore, EIL students will have a positive attitude toward learning English depending…
whereas if I’m not interested I can’t comprehend anything. It is hard for me to take out the important information from the less important information. Sometimes I have to reread a paragraph 4-5 times before I can get the main idea of a paragraph. Notetaking while reading is also difficult for me to do because I sometimes can’t figure out the main idea of the work I’m reading. I usually over take notes to make sure I got every important detail. I end up having two pages worth of notes when I am…
Not all learning styles can fit into a specific situation, there are times when a kinesthetic style is better than an aural. By becoming proficient in all learning styles, I would become flexible in all learning situations. The student should be able to shift towards the professors teaching styles in addition to exceling in their learning environment. Now, I work the best with the aural, kinesthetic, and read/write learning styles, with the weakest like being the visual learning style. By…
consider a reference check like an interview. As always, standardizing the questions asked will increase the reliability of the measure. This can, in turn, raise the ceiling placed on the validity. Another comparable aspect to interviewing comes in notetaking. Document any attempts to reach those giving the reference, along with the information they provided. Not only does this help the organization justify any selection changes, it also proves to a court that a reference check was completed.…