The English Teacher

Statement of Goals and Values Introduction Pre-service teachers continually grow and gain experience as they undertake the extensive practice and learning to become graduate teachers. Through this, goals and values provide an incentive for teachers to achieve competence in their continual development through their teaching lives. My philosophy of teaching is to enhance a student’s learning through implementing theory into professional practice (Groundwater-Smith, et.al., 2003; DET, 2008). To…

will not be working with high school aged students in my teaching career, that I know of so far, I can’t say that I won’t be working with non-English speaking students in the near future. The students that I worked with at the Steps to College program on the UNG Gainesville campus were a prime example of working with students that didn’t necessarily have English as their first language. The summer program was focused on one class credit that the student chooses to take to count for their…

The biggest struggle I see on my current campus, which is primarily bilingual, is that my teachers are unprepared and lack the knowledge of how to teach English Language Learners. Most of them are phenomenal monolingual teachers, but do not know how to differentiate their teaching for ELL students. So, in hopes of finding strategies and techniques that can be implemented in my Bilingual and ELL classrooms, I selected Reading Strategies for my Literature Review topic. Reading the articles I…

Majority of students in my country start learning English language from a very early age that is from grade three. Though schools try to provide best education facilities to their students, it’s not possible for every student to gain the exact knowledge, as sometimes teachers teach too fast, sometimes the topics are not very interesting and mainly for these reasons students are not capable of improving their learning skills and competencies related to English language. The same happened with me,…

I started off strong, with encouragement from my favorite teachers (Mr. Taylor (History/English), Mrs. Bowler (Shop Class), and Mrs. Auernig (World Civilizations)) who later I later realized are a major responsibility for who I am today. I managed to get all A’s in the first quarter of school, it was much easier than I was expecting…

Introduction Lawrence Middle School, located in Lawrenceville New Jersey, educates 600, seventh and eighth grade, students a day. The school is run by principle Milavsky and assisted by vice principle Buczynski. The reason that principle Milavsky described as to why teaching middle school is important was, “middle schoolers are not tainted yet and therefore you can get to them.” Lawrence Middle School is a diverse community, pulling students from all areas around Princeton and Trenton. In…

IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT Desy Nur Farida 21602073029 1. Introduction Errors frequently made by students in learning the second/ foreign language. These are very important to be discussed not only by teachers but also by students themselves in order to know the students’ weaknesses so that the teachers can make remedial teachings and the students can learn from their own errors. Among those errors is morphological error. The objectives of this short essay are to find out the kinds of students’…

Likewise readability consideration covers the NC Professional Teaching Standard: Standard 4: Teachers facilitate learning for their students; teachers know the ways in which learning takes place, and they know the appropriate levels of intellectual, physical, and emotional development of their students; teachers plan instruction appropriate for students. 3. Self-Efficacy Students need to believe that they can be successful before they complete a task…

The article written by Kweku Smith has an abundant amount of useful information. Overall, he brought awareness to the different aspects that a second language teacher should take into consideration regarding the student they are teaching. Smith encourages teachers to take their students background into the teaching process; noting that it plays a key factor in aiding in the process of learning. He also wants to make clear that there is no prototype as to how a second language student should…

The issue that I’m exploring in my assignment is that the usage of standardised testing such as NAPLAN to shape English Teaching and learning is putting pressure on students and teachers. High risk testing is creating a “teacher centred instruction” Barret (cited in Thompson & Harbaugh, 2013) that promotes a less inclusive classroom, which in turn lowers student’s motivation and engagement. The consequence of NAPLAN is also raised in the article ‘Naplan: number of children opting out of national…