Pedagogy

According to Boyles (2004), “teachers talk with students to monitor their progress as well as to set goals and help them solve problems” (p.75). Teachers should conduct writing conferences in order to assess and evaluate the writing progress of their students. The purpose of writing conferences is finding the strengths and weaknesses of their writing to improve and develop the skills the student already has. Depending on the students writing the teacher facilitates interventions to improve the…

During the time that I was observing in the second grade classroom, I was able to observe a few methods the teacher was using during the writing period. Writing periods are usually teacher directed and include prompts or copying words in cursive. The only time that writing is student directed is when they free write (during any free time) or when they are working in groups. Throughout the school day, the teacher set aside 50 minutes of writing for the students. The writing period was used for…

Jennifer Allard (2003), a high school calculus teacher from Fairfax County, Virginia, wanted to determine “Will direct instruction in cooperative learning and meaningful group work result in an increase in students’ desire to be part of trusting collaborative groups?” Allard (2003) had a former group four girls in AP calculus that studied together and became a bonded group inside and outside of the classroom. She noticed that the girls’ achievement in the course was increasing. The girls…

Chapter 1- Introduction (Background of the Problem) As I am sitting with a mathematics instructional specialist in urban K-8 school in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The instructional specialistshe is describingexplaining the work she has been doing with two third grade teachers focused on improving mathematics instruction. The instructional specialist explains that teachers she is working with are vastly different. The teachers have differing opinions about the efficacy of the instructional…

Philosophy of Education There are many professions and careers in the world. The one thing they all have in common is that the people have a philosophy they follow when they are working. A philosophy is a set of ideals that the worker believes and follows. The ideals they hold may be a result of how they were raised coupled with experiences and what they believe. These beliefs and ideals might have led them to their profession in the first place. A philosophy, however, is not set in stone. It…

Blended Learning and the Effects on Middle School Math Students There are fifteen days left until teachers come back to school to prepare for students to walk through their doors. As an instructional coach, one of my middle school math teachers approaches me and says, “I want to try blended learning this year with my students. Can you help me?”. I was thrilled! In our district, there has been more talk about raising our math scores and improving student engagement. Traditionally, classes at the…

Before making a choice to become a teacher completing a field observation is the greatest opportunity one can have. During this time, you have an opportunity to decide if teaching is right for you. Being a teacher is a lot harder than it actually looks. Teaching requires patients and determination. A teacher must be able to teach in a way that every student in the classroom can understand. This includes the gifted students as well as the low achieving students. The curriculum must accommodate to…

Inclusive teaching can be very useful in classes where you have a classroom that has a diverse makeup. Inclusive teaching means that you want to include everyone in the lessons taught, and students will have the same equal opportunity to learn as other students. Inclusive learning can be used in situations where your classes are made up from of students with different cultural backgrounds, or if students have any type of disability. This paper will answer how does inclusive teaching promote…

Mostly everyone would agree that a child’s education is critical to their development as a scholar. On the contrary would most people agree that how our next generation is taught will influence not only their academic success but also their motivation and behavior? Educators of past generations typically conformed to the “one size fits all” model of teaching which resulted in predominantly lecture style teaching. George Fox Professor, Donna Webb (2016), says we have made great advancements of…

My definition of literacy was being capable to read. That is some part of it but literacy is also part of growing up because it still carried in my routinely life. I 'm a sophomore in college now and I still feel like my literacy is still growing and evolving. One of my earliest memories I could relate to was as a teenager I had a teacher named Mr.Jago and he made interested in becoming literate. He made me experience growth in the classroom and learn moral values to embrace being creative with…