Seven Years' War

I was sitting at my desk waiting in small, hot classroom on the second floor twiddling my thumbs anxious for free time.. It was my first school year out of ESL classes. I was in ESL classes until about 3rd grade. In ESL everyone there was on the same boat. We were all different, different accents, different cultures, different backgrounds, with different stories. Even though we were all different we were all there with the same goal, to learn English and because of that the bullying was…

So, about three years ago, during fifth grade in my elementary school, my friend and I decided to break the rules. Whenever I think back to this event I realize how foolish I was when I was eleven years old. I had just moved to San Diego, so this was my first year at this new school. It didn’t take long before I made new friends. But once I had my “friend group” I would follow them around during the breaks. They had been at this school since kindergarten and they knew all the secrets, and rumors…

It was about 3 weeks into my freshman year of high school and I started getting alot of homework. I was used to my routine. I woke up in the morning, went to school, came home, and immediately went outside or went somewhere with my friends. I would come home from whatever activity I had and I would eat supper. By that time it was probably about 7 or 7:30. I would never really think about homework though. I put everything in front of that and I have no clue why. Whenever I would have a test to…

1. How does it feel teaching today compared to when you first started? Throughout the years, did you learn any new teaching methods? If so, which one was the most efficient? What has been your favorite aspect of teaching all these years? There is a lot more challenges and expectations related to the students. For example, I’ve noticed that children have more needs nowadays than years ago when I first taught. I have to teach a lot more using different modalities and do a lot of small group…

Review Reading Fluency Daniel’s reading fluency at roughly a fourth grade level. He is currently being progress monitored at a fourth grade level as his AIMSweb fall benchmark score placed him below the 10th percentile. After reading seven fourth grade passages this year, Daniel has averaged 83 WRC (words read correctly) with 8 errors. This score would put him in the 25th percentile compared to fourth grade students attending Robinson School. He has read as many as 106 WRC and as few as 52 WRC.…

students learn geometry. It was a theory worked on by Pierre Van Hiele and his wife, Dina Van Hiele-Geldof. They were Dutch researchers and teachers. They came up with this theory at the University of Utrecht in the year 1957. The Van Hiele’s did multiple research experiments and it took years for them to complete this thesis. Shortly after the thesis was complete, Dina passed away (Šafránková, 2012, p. 72). These levels have five important characteristics. They are in an order that does matter.…

The Common Core State Standards were released in 2010 for English language arts and mathematics. The Standards were enacted to create a set of college-and-career-ready curriculums to follow for kindergarten through grade twelve. Presently, 42 states and the District of Columbia have agreed to implement the standards in their schools with the hope of creating college and career ready students by the time they are supposed to graduate high school. The creation of these standards has created a…

Pennsylvania has seen a decline in standardized test scores since the rigor has increased. “The number of Pennsylvania Students who scored proficient or advanced on state standardized tests in 2014-2015 has fallen precipitously compared with previous years,” (McCory, 2015). Although Pennsylvania has seen a decline in scores, legislatures agree that standardized tests need to follow the Pennsylvania Core Standards, which are similar to the common core standards. When states align curriculum…

Volleyball Growing up I always played softball, my whole family grew up playing. My cousin was playing college ball and I was expected to do the same. I loved softball, but playing all the time I was starting to lose my love for it. I played year round regular season, all stars, and travel ball. It was very tiring so when 7th grade came around and I had the chance to try out for volleyball I took it. Turned out I loved it and I wasn’t too bad at it. I have never been too good at trying new…

hated being asked what I wanted to be when I grew up when I was in elementary school. Back then, I had no idea what I wanted to be when I grew up, but that always seemed to be a popular question. Why would people think we knew what we wanted to be years later? It just never made sense to me, but here is my life changing situation that decided my career options.…