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“A student is not a container to fill, but a torch to light up” (Zakrzewski 24). Although not a teacher, Albert Einstein understood many things about learning and discovery. His early schooling years were plagued by poor educational practices. Teachers would often call him “too stupid to learn” because of the number of questions he asked. Einstein was simply curious, and it is this curiosity which led him down the path to become one of the greatest minds ever to walk out earth. According to…

Chinese dynasties, China’s rise to empire, and theoretical customs. Alongside these new advancements, came new thinkers. One of the most common thinkers from this time period was Kongfuzi, or as most call him Confucius. Confucius was a highly respected teacher and social reformer whom created Confucianism. His never wrote down his teachings, but his lessons were what brought him his claim to fame. Confucius’ teachings not only affected Ancient China; his teachings have lived on forever and today…

on the human rights model. P214 Inclusion should be ‘flexible and meaningful.’ p220 Hart (1996, p. 102) provides a framework of five questioning ‘moves’ which help teachers to think in fresh ways about the teaching and learning situation, and to imagine different interpretations from a range of perspectives. The moves involve: teachers making connections between the learner’s responses and the context in which they occur; contradicting, teasing out and re-evaluating the assumptions underlying…

be provided on what they would need to do at home to achieve. However, a deputy head teacher of a special needs school might be preoccupied with their own needs and might not be able to talk to a child who has been on report for 2 weeks, due to silly behaviour because they have family problems. This can affect the way a child would respond in the future because the child may perceive that the deputy head teacher is not concerned about the child misbehaving and in another occasion, this would…

Technology and Teachers Technology has become a revolutionary tool for education, by allowing the utilizing of information found on the World Wide Web. Teachers have adopted the digital age, by the use of various computer programs, and by incorporating the internet. Technology will never replace teacher, but “teachers who don’t use technology will be replaced by those who do”. (Trucano) Today teachers no longer only rely on the traditional methods of teaching, but now apply technology to their…

and determining the difference in size between them. The teacher who goes by the name of teaching coach explained that the students would calculate how many rulers it would take to measure the entire football field (Teaching Coach, 2009). I do think this assessment is reasonable because it provides students with the application of what they learned by going outside and actually measuring the football field. As far as the materials, Teacher Coach stated that the students would use about one…

This article outlines the challenges of differentiated instruction and re-confirms the role of the teacher in a differentiated classroom. This article is useful because if focuses more specifically on English language learners. Tomlinson, C. A. (2000a). Differentiated instruction: Can it work? The Education Digest, 65(5), 25-31. Tomlinson, C. A., &…

They married and had four children. My mom was a teacher and my dad was an engineer. In Iraq they get paid a good amount of money. Things in Iraq didn’t work well. Iraq had war. The country was very dangerous. Ekram didn’t really care about her job and her career all she cared about was to save her husband’s…

children. The youngest is a newborn. A few of the behaviors observed that could be possibly caused by the stress of a newborn in the house are sucking his thumb as well as screaming and crying a t drop off time. To help eliminate this behavior teacher should encourage family to set aside a few extra minutes at drop off so the Juan can have a little one on one before starting his day. Juan has a difficult time interacting with his peers indoors and outdoors. Pairing him up with a special…

Since elementary school, my favorite teachers have always been social science teachers. I have always loved my United States History teachers because they actually cared about whether the students in their classes learned. I also really loved my AP Psychology teacher because it was a class I was really interested in and she taught the material very well. I think my favorite teachers have been teachers that are not only interested in the subject they are teaching, but that care about students…