Teaching

Reflections on Teaching & Learning: Your Lesson Evaluation should include EACH of the following: Decisions about the plan • Why did you choose to use these specific teaching strategies? I felt that an inquiry-based strategy would be beneficial to the students, because I wanted to allow them to make their own hypothesis and then conduct experiments making their own observations before providing them with information and details. This allowed them to make personal connections with what they…

Teaching Learning by David Metzenthen In the short text “Teaching Learning”, Sandy moves to a new country to teach at Wyncha State School. In this new country, Sandy is completely isolated from anything she has ever been familiar with in the past. This means that Sandy must be resilient in order to deal with the new, unfamiliar environment that she is faced with. “Teaching Learning” raises issues which are relevant to readers future lives. This is because we are all eventually going to have…

Many students don’t have good encounters to look back on, and personally, that shouldn’t be the case. Being open-minded to diversity and new experiences is also another reason teaching is going to fit my personality so well. My most inspiring moments within public school is when my senior English teacher told me to write about the one thing I believed in. I wrote exactly that for her, I am a proud survivor of domestic violence…

Vocabulary and spelling. Theories based around the ideas of teaching vocabulary and spelling have informed much of what teachers include in their lesson and how they teach the topics of vocabulary and spelling. Throughout this text, I will touch on the theories informing the research established in this field whilst also looking at teaching vocabulary and spelling in a practical way. Theoretical Information Included in Digital Resource The teaching of vocabulary is one of the most important…

creativity According to Lin (2011, as cited in Lehtonen et al., 2016) creative teaching is a creative, innovative and imaginative approach to teaching English. Creative pedagogy involving creative teaching, teaching for creativity and creative learning. Sawyer (2004, 2006, as cited in Lehtonen, et al. 2016) stressed the creative teacher’s ability to use improvisational principles directly. In teaching creatively, a teacher should employ the rules of improvisation by living in the…

Teaching Autistic Students Teaching art to children with autism is always going to be challenging because of the inherent nature of the diagnosis – each child has different sensitivities, triggers, and aversions (Furniss, 2007). Many educational professionals may perceive these students as exceptionally high maintenance and potentially become extremely overwhelmed, wanting to lump everyone together with the same expectations as the other children. (While “othering” can be very isolating for…

to use technology as an important tool for learning, both now and in the future” (AASL 2009, 13 as cited in Johnston, 2013, p. 73). Teacher technology skill proficiency alone does not appear to be enough to facilitate effective integration into teaching practices (Gronseth, 2010, p. 30). When teachers have the skill they need to utilize the tools, technology can be utilized “as a tool to support students in performing authentic tasks.” Proper integration also puts the students in a “position…

ACTUAL TEACHING EXPERIENCES Day 1 It was a dream, a dream come true. I was really excited and at the same time nervous. It was the reality being in my pre-service training, new faces, new environment and a lot of experiences to develop myself and my teaching skills. This is the day that I first met my cooperating teacher. She is Ms. Mary Kristelin joie C. Esmen. She is beautiful, still young and I feel that she is kind. At first, she wants me to feel comfortable with her. She gave me pieces of…

of pastor who believe in prosperity gospel teaching. This is the idea where if you donate money to the church, God will reward you later with good fortune. This idea sound great. However certain people have had negative situation with this belief. One person gives money to the church instead of buying her medication and ultimately lost her life. The lists on similar situation happen daily. Some may be thinking does ideology go in line with Jesus is teaching. The prosperity Gospel has four…

walkthroughs for CED 100, I discovered many things about education and teaching that helped me on finalizing my decision to teach Middle School History. After completing all four hours in lower elementary education, upper elementary education, middle school education, and high school education, I had a very good understanding of how classes were conducted and how students from different age groups react to different forms of teaching. My first encounter in a classroom, at Model, was with Mrs.…