Substitute teacher

challenging to gain the necessary skills to develop their social/behavioral communication skills, whether in a classroom setting or at home. Jason is a young student in the book The Boy Who Would be a Helicopter that isolates himself from the other classmates in a world of helicopters. Through the teacher’s classroom management, our teacher…

Ally may not read or write very well, but her new teacher Mr. Daniels notices that she does think outside the box more than any other student he has had in the past. After reading this book I learned that if you don't try to fix your own problem, it will potentially hurt you or others around you. Ally can not read or write very well, so when her teacher asks her to write a paper about herself for her new teacher, she can't. When she finally starts writing it is not about her, she writes the…

I feel she displayed somewhat of a tough love among her students. She was firm when she needed to be, but very kind and caring at other times. Whenever a student did well she gave tremendous praise to that student. When a student was struggling and she knew that that student could do the task at hand. She provided the right amount of scaffolding to the student which allowed them to come to conclusions on their own. For example, during a class among my 2nd hour Mrs. Supple asked a student if he…

The Odd in Five Oaks Gryphon is a story by Charles Baxter made in Tommy’s point of view. In Five Oaks, Michigan, there is rarely anything interesting occurring. At his unenthusiastic school, Tommy’s 4th grade teacher, Mr. Hibler, gets terribly sick and calls in for a substitute the next day. Tommy expects the substitute teacher to be community college graduate moms who nervously cover material that the class has already mastered. To his wonder, the substitute is someone no one in Five Oaks has…

Analysis of the Short Story “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter In the short story, “Gryphon”, the author, Charles Baxter, writes a story about a fourth-grader named Tommy who gets a strange substitute teacher, Miss Ferenczi, who tells “substitute facts” in order to expand students’ minds and make them wonder more (Baxter 253). The setting of the story is mainly in Tommy’s fourth-grade classroom at Garfield-Murray School in Five Oaks, “a rural community” in Michigan (Baxter 251). It takes place from…

Introduction I assumed that substitute teaching would be a breeze. I asked myself how difficult could it be for a responsible, intelligent, a Christian teacher of adults and youth, 55+ year old career changing graduate student to enter a classroom and deliver pre-written lessons? Before making this statement of I can do this my field of study is in Addiction Counseling, graduating with a Master’s not knowing that the 3,000 intership hours are without pay. Working at a bank I quite so that I…

Conventional Meets Interesting Gryphons, or griffons, are mythological creatures with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion. The new substitute teacher talks about these in the short story “Gryphon” written by Charles Baxter. This new substitute teacher comes in and disregards everything that the class had learned and done before that. Within the few days that she is there, she goes on to tell the class wild things about mythological creatures and angles that she claimed to…

people will argue that a teacher should simply be a person who transfers important information and facts to their students, while others say that a teacher should promote creativity and happiness in their classroom. Studies have shown that students believe that their teachers need to relax, destress, and have a sense of humor in order to maintain a productive classroom. They say that having a boring teacher who teaches boring lessons, makes them feel uncomfortable in school. So, by creating an…

Detachment is a movie that illustrates the lives of several high school teachers, administrators, and students as interpreted by a substitute teacher named Henry Barthes. Henry Barthes, a disengaged substitute teacher with a troubled past, ends up getting called to a public school where an apathetic student body and misguided parents have created a frustrated and angry group of teachers and administrators. Although he shuns emotional connections, and never stays long enough in one district to…

1. Sean Houlihan Values Current Innovations in Education As a full time substitute teacher in the Narragansett School District, and a former full time teacher for the previous decade, Sean Houlihan places a high value on learning and following the current trends in educational theory. He believes that to effectively teach children in today 's society, it is crucial that an educator has their hand on the pulse of the most up to date technologies and insights. 2. Sean Houlihan Follows the World 's…