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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…

aimlessly staring at your professor while they give their hour and a half long lecture. At the end of it all you wonder “Well what did I get out of this? I just know what I think I need to know.” Here you have two cases in one example. According to The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire this is a common practice of “the banking concept” in effect. On the other end, according to hooks’s Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, this is an example of a “passive…

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…

is a need to create a post method pedagogy. The development of new thoughts is focused on finding new productive teaching strategies by raising teachers’ awareness of their beliefs, reasoning and practices inside and outside a language classroom. Considering this new inklings of a post method pedagogy, it can be possible to restructure the Argentinian foreign language teaching and language education as well. It is important to underline that a post method pedagogy consists of political,…

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…

Looking around, I see twelve desks with only half as many students sitting at them. Going into this clinical experience, I expected fewer students than in a typical class as I was assigned to a special education classroom. Students in Ms. Olson’s classroom had IEPs, mainly for having one or more behavioral disorders. As with any new person coming into a class, the students were quite hesitant to interact to me, and so they were for my first couple of visits, but eventually I became a normal…

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…