Student engagement

his personal stories as a way to position himself as having a life story that was also as bad as his children’s. This creates a symmetrical relationship between him and all his children. Positionality was also a strategy that he used to lift his students. As he talked to them personally, he positioned them as the bigger brother / sister and that everyone of them has responsibility for other people. This approach seemed to work to help Tashi who was in dire need of protection and sense of…

Focused Observation #2 Entry C: Identify the content and language objectives. Then identify the number of opportunities a specific EL student had to achieve them during a lesson. Description: For this observation, I observed my third grade Cleveland partner during a lesson that Kayla Borges-Vaz taught. He had the opportunity to use various watercolor paints to develop a better understanding of how different colors mix with each other. Reflection: Through my observation, I learned that it is…

motivating factor is therefore students’ career success instead of to make profit through education. In fact, the university should not base its priorities on the cash flows (money suppliers) but on who have an interest in the school and who contribute to the school’s reputation. Fox can create value through efficient stakeholder interactions. Integrating social and environment issues into the business school strategy is mandatory. Fox should take direct responsibility engagement actions. In…

what they would be doing that day. The class would review words, parts of a sentence, and was able to be prepared for the day ahead of them. The students in her class really enjoyed this and I felt that it really started the day in the right direction. She and I created a game where we would hide vocabulary words around the classroom and have the students…

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of Azusa Pacific University (APU)’s Religious and Spiritual programs on current student’s academic success, engagement, faith and spiritual development. We wanted to further study how APU as a religious affiliated institution has had an effect on current student’s spiritual growth. We specifically wanted to see how experiences vary depending on the student’s class level, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. Furthermore, we…

have utilized Tinto’s theory of college student departure. Tinto (1987) proposed that higher levels of integration into academic and social realms strengthened students’ learning and developed their commitment to staying enrolled. Strage (1999) noted that by the end of the 1980 's, researchers had reached consensus on the theroretical dimensions of retention for traditional college students. “The college population of today, however,…

awakening of a human being that students need to take an active role in order to receive its complete value. Throughout this article Rawlings gives several examples that although many believe that a college education is simply commodity that student purchase from colleges, it is actually much more than that. Instead college is a meeting of educators and students in which both need to take an active role for its full value to be obtained. Through college, students do not simply learn how to make…

The new student organization in which I am taking a leadership role in is the Sales & Strategy Organization (SSO). The University of Maryland is an incredible educational institute and has provided me and family with opportunities I will forever be grateful for. However, one thing that I have seen, especially with my internship on Wall Street is that many students at large public universities like Maryland often never learn emotional and social intelligence and the value that adds to any career…

Discussions Cooperative learning as a teaching strategy is a way for students who are too shy to feel comfortable discussing concepts with a partner before sharing thoughts with the whole class. Cooperative learning is a teaching strategy where small teams or groups, each with students at different levels that use a variety of learning activities to improve understanding of the subject. This instructional…

want to obtain the most intelligence out of my college experience. I wish to insert myself into an environment where I will be encompassed by students who desire to be the best at what they do. As an honors student at UNCC I will thoroughly demonstrate the actions of a scholar-citizen by living by the tradition of service, leadership, and community engagement, while also bettering myself through education and contributing back to the University Honors Program by supporting my peers. If…