Sugar substitute

I knew from the very beginning I wanted to be a teacher. I am now going to Kent State University in hopes I achieve my goal of graduating and getting a bachelor’s degree. My major is Integrated Language Arts and I want to be a high school English teacher. My personality and values correspond with the future occupation I hope to have one day. It is important that someone’s personality characteristics match those of the characteristics someone posses in the occupation of one’s choice. The…

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…

As I mentioned in my chapter seven reflection, there are nearly an infinite number of reasons why children may act out during the school day. Some more examples include, the amount of free space in the classroom, the lack of down time, too much stimulation, pent up energy, and incompetence when completing assignments, just to name a few. Believe it or not, but all of these can be prevented with just some extra thought and effort from the teacher. For example, he or she needs to consider what the…

defends his interesting, unique substitute teacher, Miss Ferenczi. In the beginning of the story, Tommy’s teacher, Mr.Hibler developed a cough and finally decides that he is too sick to carry on. The next day, a strange woman walks into class, “carrying a purple purse, a checkerboard lunchbox, and some books (p. 43, l. 45) She had “her light hair in a chignon and was wearing gold-rimmed glasses” (p. 44, l. 71) She introduced herself as Miss Ferenczi, their substitute teacher, and carried on…

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…

The classroom infused with joy and summer warmth was all but quiet. Seventh grade voices echoed through out the small space. Banners hung on every wall, some drawings, some influential quotes. The last moments of the school year edged closer, and joy erupted from the students. Brisk breeze blew throughout the room, intruding from the open windows. Loads of student desks were arranged around the room in a square-like formation. Parody music filled the homeroom, children either singing along or…

I grew up in a small church, where my mom was a Sunday school teacher and my dad was the Assistant Pastor. They also were involved in the youth a lot. Growing up, I can remember driving down the road on our way to church and seeing kids that knew or my mom knew and we would ask them if they wanted to go to church with us. Next thing you knew, we have like 5-6 local kids going to church with us. I can remember when we use to ask them where they lived so we could make sure that it was alright with…

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…

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…

community, everyday followed the same schedule, nothing exciting ever happened. Until, Miss Ferenczi arrived to substitute for Tommy’s class. She introduced the children to the idea of dream and wonder in the world. Before, they had been taught to memorize facts, but Miss Ferenczi wanted their imaginations to be free. By the end of the story, Tommy had grown attached to his substitute teacher and was angered when she got fired. Still, Tommy looked to the future with newfound hope for the mystery…