Skills management

I am immensely grateful to you, Mr. Ward M. Wheatall, for the Harry Wheatall Renaissance Scholarship granted to me. With your support, I was able to complete my first two semesters of college at the Brandywine campus of Penn State and can now confidently continue my success. I am still majoring in Forensic Science as planned. Penn State has been everything I imagined and more. This experience has truly been eye opening, educational, challenging, and fun. My academic plans for my next couple…

Self-Regulated Learning Ericka Farrell Keiser University Dr. Diana Martin Psychological Basis of Education (EDU520) 6/14/2015 Self-regulated learning (SRL) implies the notion of metacognition (self-critical assessment of one's personal inner need to be educated), strategic action (arranging, observing, and assessing individual advancement against a standard), and inspiration to learn. "Self-regulated"…

material, time limitations (the second group had a slightly short amount of time to discuss), and of course the people and ideas involved in the socratic seminar. Once I receive feedback, I’m sure that I’ll use it to improve my socratic seminar skills for the following discussions. As feedback to the group, I think that taking a break to allow others to speak is important, instead of going back and forth between just a few people. Even though most participants were able to say at least one…

out of the classroom on the first day of school after College Prep Writing I knew that the class would be difficult and teach me a lot about my writing. I could have never guessed how much this one, semester long, class would truly affect my writing skills. Looking back at my older writing pieces, that I had once felt confident about, now have mistakes jumping out at me. The levels of writing we were taught and got to try out were things I had never done to my full extent before. I know when…

When determining what I wanted to base my applied learning project on, I knew that I wanted to do something that dealt with the Civil Rights era. My future plans after I graduate is to teach sixth thru 8th grade history and I felt using this subject since I do hold it near and dear to my heart, would be perfect. I knew I wanted my audience to be students and I wanted to present this project as an assignment that the students would be completing at the end of the year. Following this further, I…

Professor Joseph J. Caruso identified six phrases of cooperating teacher and student teacher development during the practicum. I think I am in the phase III: Competence vs. Inadequacy. According to Professor Caruso, “A triumph with an individual, a compliment from the cooperating teacher and other occasional occurrences begin to promote feelings of being an effective student teacher.” (Phase in Student Teaching-- Young Children, Vol.33, No.1, p 59) I deeply feel the same way. I feel accomplished…

My decision to renter the education field is one that I’ve pondered about carefully. Starting my education and the importance of making wise choices about my future. That choice today is taking steps in the right direction several reasons to do so. Some people may not like the idea of going to or even taking courses online but school is vital in your life. Some people may say that staying home and doing nothing all day is fun but I think school greatly out weights the pro’s of doing nothing all…

Why do students remember everything that is on television and forget what is taught in lecture? Students’ skills are best improved through practice, but before practice, observation is a key component to learning. For example, even if the students are given the steps on how to perform the return demonstration, they want to see the actual procedure to be more confident that they can accomplish it on their own. Students can use visual media as a way to retain concepts and ideas. Technology plays…

divided us into two large groups and the group that I was in happend to be the first group that was going to complete the course first, so,we walked over to the course and we had a chance to do more activities that require teamwork,trust,communication skills,and emotional strength. After the activities,we began to put on our harness…

Being able to read and write is an essential skill, everyone needs this skill. Reading and writing is used everyday without even thinking about it. I came to the United States when I still believed in fairy tales and Santa Claus; everything to me about the United States was different and new; I went to school not knowing English, I didn’t have any friends and most of all, I struggled trying to comprehend my teachers. I was eager to learn English and to be able to write. Before I came to this…