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Teachers, students, and school districts need to be held to a certain level of accountability. Teachers’ evaluations are based on students’ performance, which reflects on the teacher’s effectiveness. Assessments keep teachers on their toes and constantly evaluating and reflecting on their instruction. Students are taught study skills and held accountable for learning and studying, which will benefit students when they reach the college level. School Districts are also held accountable to review…

They define a school culture as “the guiding beliefs and expectations evident in the way a school operates” (p. 59) and further explore how engaging in a collaborative change process “results in new values, beliefs, norms, and preferred behaviors” (p. 59). They highlight that such collaborative processes…

successful. I got to experience this teamwork in a grade level meeting this semester in the field and learned a lot from it. During part of my field experience this semester I was in a fourth grade classroom at East Hanover Elementary School in Lower Dauphin School District. The teachers in the fourth grade were dealing with a new curriculum called IReady for math and reading, and were learning on the fly…

The article, PBIS Rules, Rewards Boost School-Wide Behavior and Academics proposes that providing rules, along with frequent rewards, and a school-wide behavior management program increases academic performance and considerably reduces discipline problems for all students. This factor in itself is just cause for school districts to take notice and to consider implementation as soon as possible. The PBIS program focuses on creating and sustaining school-wide, classroom, and individual systems of…

What I think... Teachers should not have guns because what if a kid got caught in a crossfire of the guns. Another reason that teachers should not carry guns is like at a high school kids if they got left in a room Unattended and the teacher the the gun in the desk and the kid knew it and the kid got ahold of the gun. Then that would end in disaster. Another reason that teachers should not have guns is that what if a student had been constantly annoying and being disrespectful and the teacher…

In schools all around the U.S, there are teachers who do not follow certain regulations. The biggest problem is when they refuse to follow IEPs. Following IEPs harms the student and the school. The use of conformity and obedience would surly help in increase the amount of IEP compliance. An Individualized Education Program, or IEP, is a set of instructions tailored to a child with a disability so that he or she can receive accommodation to aid in his or her education. According to the NCES, in…

implication of the Common Core State Standards. Created by education leaders and the governors from 48 of the 50 United States (Texas’ Rick Perry and Alaska’s Sarah Palin refused to participate) and the District of Columbia (Murphy) the CCSS was deigned to prepared students for college, and get schools away from curriculums that catered to standardized tests. The creators also hoped that it would create an even benchmark for learning and progress across the entire country. Up until now, every…

teaching I feel I will be affecting the future. I believe that being a teacher is a calling of the mind and heart. • . I feel that I am conscientious and resourceful and I possess the ability to multitask. As a teacher at Dickson Elementary School I will provide a well-planned, organized classroom environment using rules as the starting point for effective instruction and learning. I will model respect to students, parents, and peers and maintain effective…

Before Harriet Taylor became the Principal she is today, she entered Bay District Schools as a third grader at none other than Springfield Elementary School, saying “It’s kind of cool that I got to start my career in the district here and now I get to end it here.” At Springfield, Harriet found her love for school. She describes her family as “abusive and very poor.” For her, the school became a break from her tumultuous home life, a place where she saw adults who lived their lives in a way…

state departments of education in the United States are including goals for student social behavior in their mission statements as well as how state initiatives focus on improving student social behavior. All 50 SDE’s in the United States and the District of Columbia were included in this study. The main question of the study was-Do state mission statements include student social behavior as one of their identified educational outcomes? Results revealed that only 16 states included a formal…