Pedagogy

Introduction The following essay will explain my field experience from Education 2130. The first topic will be about the field experience site, Mundy Mill Academy. In that topic, the diversity of the classroom and school will be discussed as well as anything else discovered while in the class room. The following topic will focus on My Field Experience and how is connects with Educational Philosophy. I will use what I learned from Education 2130 to help explain my findings and new knowledge from…

In my philosophy of teaching, the major goals for my classroom are effective classroom management, considering and incorporating diversity, and creating a motivating environment. I am in early childhood education, and one day hope to teach second grade. Approaching classroom management is extremely important to me because I am generally a quiet, non-confrontational person, and this is an area of teaching with which I could potentially have the most trouble if I am not appropriately prepared. My…

Janice Koch states “being a teacher requires an emotional and intellectual engagement.” Janice Koch is the author of So You Want to Be a Teacher: Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century that provided a lot of insight and information that is important to know if I wanted to be a teacher in a 21st-century classroom. In Chapter One: Who Are Our Teacher, Koch gave statistics of what a “normal” teacher look like in a classroom. Most teachers are middle ages married white woman and Koch discuss the…

Education is an important part of any child’s life, whether they know it or not. A woman named Maria Montessori has her own philosophy on how education should be. There is another person who has views on education, Colin Powell. Powell believes that structure is the main basis for good education. These two don’t agree on their educational beliefs, and these examples will explain why. In education, Montessori and Powell both believe that there should be someone to teach students, but they see it…

This video shows the Direct Instruction Approach in three different schools within in the same district where this type of teaching and learning environment was implemented. Teachers were shown interacting with their students in the classroom as well as how the students were responding to their instructors. The teachers also were given opportunities to discuss how and why the Direct Instruction Approach worked in their classroom. On the student side, the students were shown following distinct…

Summary: This chapter in the Duke and Pearson text was all about fostering the reading comprehension of students. Research has proven that despite the impacts of home environment of reading and writing comprehension. A teacher can promote comprehension in students if the student has had effective comprehension lesson for two years. This is huge. Teachers literally (and by literally I mean figuratively) have the students’ comprehension in the palms of their hands. I chose to do my reflection on…

Graduation from teachers college will be an exciting moment in my life, as I am sure it is for many. One challenge for teachers in small towns who work in small schools is that they often have to teach more than one grade. Teachers face many challenges every day and it is important to remain effective in the process of completing all of these challenges. There are many ways teachers can be good at what they do, not everyone has to be the same. Effective teachers care about their students…

What is Montessori? Montessori is a learning and teaching method that is concerned with personal development on children rather than focusing on exam based education system so that more mature and creative children can be developed. This education system started in the dawn of the 1900s to serve pre-school children and later grew to serve different populations of children around the world. Montessori classrooms are characterized by children of the same age groups, where an age group is children…

School has always been hard for myself. The most difficult thing that has always been hard for me is spelling. I couldn 't learn how other student did. My second grade teacher Mrs. Leaann found away to help me. The way she found out to help me if like playing a game. We would use flashcard and have them turned over. Each one of us would take a card. Mrs.Leeann would say "Spell the would banana." I would try and spell it. If I got it right I would get the card, but if I got it wrong it would…

All these elements create a key purpose for the nature of science strand. The elements are put in place so that students learn to develop an understanding of what thinking and working like a scientist is all about. They then can apply this to their science learning. The building science concept books are extremely useful when it comes to teaching science as a student teacher. “Teachers must choose activities that match students’ background knowledge and reasoning skills.” The building…