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Curriculum Reflection As a student and second year Special Education teacher at Keystone Central School District, my knowledge and experience with curriculum is minimal, yet valuable. While student teaching, I have also had the opportunity to experience teaching in two different districts that have curriculums that are followed rigorously. From these two differing experiences in my life, I have formed several personal views on how curriculum does not affect high quality instruction, as well as…

that highly qualified, enthusiastic teachers can be found at boarding schools. The typical teacher at a boarding school holds a degree in their subject area and most likely holds an advanced degree in their field. This knowledge combined with their enthusiasm of the subject as well as an enjoyment of teaching young children results in an incredible learning environment for the students. Boarding Schools also hold less strict guidelines as to what and how teachers teach their subjects. This makes…

I would push to have time before the students start school that year, to have the teachers self-administer the same leadership surveys (Glanz, 2002) that we took in module 2 of this course. The feedback that they receive from that assessment could then be used to help them understand their own strengths, and more importantly, their own…

significant improvements in academic learning, as well as improvements in behavior, social engagement, communication and self-determination. Not only does the use of iPads help students in special education classrooms, they are also easy and manageable for teachers and parents to utilize. iPads are easy to operate, malleable in terms of updating applications, programs and software, and they are easy to transport across classrooms to the home. They are also easily individualized to the student 's…

their time to their specific area of expertise. Lupton also suggests that there should be an “...adjusted curriculum, learning resources and pedagogic approaches to enable effective teaching and learning to take place. At the level of the classroom, teachers need to be equipped with suitable resources for working with low ability pupils, and mechanisms need to be developed to transfer expertise from special needs to mainstream education” (Lupton 671). As…

the fact that the schooling systems cutting the budget. In the same poll students ranked music education as the seventh most important thing that should be cut out from the school, only beating out sports, guidance counselors ,administrators and teachers (in that order) (Zhao qtd by Huffington Post). The Huffington Post asked their users the same question “Which of the following should be cut first?” and only 2.2% of voters stated that the fine arts should be removed from the education system in…

In beginning, the school psychologist, teachers and the principal disagreed with each other, but did not express themselves during meetings the way they have expressed themselves to me individually. There was diversity among us, based on our status within the school. The principal is very involved…

disabilities, if a student has a problem with reading English than the teacher must give them all the time their IEP calls for, or else they run…

has been most apparent in perennialism, but idealism and realism have also been found in the theory of perennialism (American Education pg.77). Perennialism will address the purpose of schooling, nature of the learner, the curriculum used by the teacher, instructional methods, classroom management, assessment also the perennialist…

Part A. Reflective practice literature review Introduction The assignment is devoted to teacher self-reflection which is acknowledged to be one of the moves that will lead to development and professionalism. Part A looks firstly at theory of reflection in general and then how it works in teaching. It points why reflection is essential in teaching practice and presents different ways of reflections as well as different levels of reflection. Whereas part B, presents more practical use of…