Student engagement

Saturday, I have learned the trip would be useful for students’ learning in the future, particularly for Social Studies and History students. Teachers play an important role in ensuring the field trip to run smoothly and meaningful for their learning experience, one by providing students with good reading materials and risk assessment beforehand. This reflective essay will talk about my experience and how Kg Ayer field trip would be useful for my students’ learning in the future. Risk…

January Comment: Tvisha is a sweet and gentle child, full of love and laughter. She typically enters the classroom with a sweet smile and sets off to choose a work in Practical Life or Sensorial. Tvisha is a keen observer and enjoys watching lessons given to her classmates. In circle, Tvisha listens intently and enjoys interacting with classmates. She loves to participate in Music and Spanish classes. She is very comfortable with the classroom environment, and feels empowered by her…

Why is it that children begin to hate school in their early years? Oftentimes, children love learning until a sudden resentment creeps in, making school and education feel dreadful to young students. Dr. Maria Montessori’s curriculum was designed to help impressionable minds build an academic foundation, which is essential to success later in life. The Montessori method encourages teachers to “follow the child” resulting in the betterment of a young mind. The Montessori method of education…

and to raise the school standards. Joes approached to running the school was to be an autocratic leader, thus he handed down instructions to both staff and students and did not considered their opinion. He instructed students be the one to remove graffiti since it was their doing. Joe saw the cafeteria area as a cage and this made the students behaved like animals. This description used by Joe is one of an ‘analogy,’ e.g., comparing the cafeteria to that of a cage. Joe stated teachers needed to…

school can divided to two more types. One is public school and one is private school. Most of student in Vietnam are going to public school which is cheap paying, free paying sometimes but not free for 100%. The school year usually has two semesters; each semester has different session of education. The first semester begins in August and ends before Lunar New Year, to finish the first semester, students have to take a final test for Math, Literature, Chemistry, and other subjects. The second…

was very important. I have learned how students differ from sections A to D in terms of classroom management, behavior and participation in Math class. I have also learned how my cooperating teacher handled each class, how he adjust his teaching to meet his students’ capabilities. Each section has its own need. Section A was very active. They tried to compete for the teacher’s attention by being the first one to answer. The challenge here was to let all students recite in equal frequency. They…

Equality Equity is a very important aspect that should be instil in the classroom although in order for it to be implemented, it is important to identity and expand on what is Equality. Equity does not entail that every learner must be treated the same but focuses on more in treating everyone with equal concern and respect. Therefore it is important as to when I am implementing equality in my classroom that I look at each child as individuals, taking into consideration who they are as an…

For our seventh group session, personal growth was the focus of our group session. We started our group session by reviewing our group norms that were placed at the front of the class. The group process consists of five stages which are pregroup stage, initial stage, transition stage, working stage, and final stage. (Corey, Corey & Corey, 2014). Our group session entered the final stage of group. During the final stage, the group focuses on what was learned during the group sessions and decides…

to Elon University to talk at the common reading lecture. Make Your Home Among Strangers was the book that all incoming first year students had to read for their classes. Her speech revolved around her book and how the story really came alive in her life. Her book was about a girl, who dealt with many struggles of being a minority, a first generation college student, moving away from home, school troubles, problems going on at home, and many other things. Even though she specifically claimed…

“Keep the passion alive” -Mani Mina. The purpose of this essay is to interview a faculty member to learn and reflect about he or she. The faculty member that I have chosen is my professor, Mani Mina. I have never talked with him before this assignment nor did I tried to. The reason I chose professor Mani Mina is because of the way he taught the class. Out of all of my professors, I believe he was the most influential to me. They way he taught and his thinking style was complete different…