respond to can help students be on the closest possible terms with the text (26). Though I do not know Graff personally, his excerpt helps his audience feel connected to his life. In this day and age, a significant amount of teenagers do not see the importance of books. Since he knows how it feels, he can address this problem, and help figure out a method to solve it. This generation can be distracted while they are doing something that requires all of their attention. Phones and various social…
Decades of research from educational, mental health and applied behavioural analysis assisted in developing the key concepts and framework of PBIS (Horner, Sugai & Anderson, 2010). PBIS is a multi-tiered (primary, secondary and tertiary) behavioural intervention model using a proactive…
Service Learning Reflection Through my service learning experience in libs 3000 I have had the opportunity to learn invaluable classroom techniques and procedures that could only be learned through observation and practice. The service learning experience also offers future teachers a crucial resource to becoming good teachers. Additionally this experience allows those volunteering to see a different perspective on what teaching entails and if it is truly the path they will continue to follow.…
The world is composed of more than seven billion individuals. With a large number of inhabitants on Earth, people are bound to have differences between each other. An area where diversity can be observed among individuals is in their ability to learn information efficiently and effectively. A publication from North Carolina State University called Learning Styles and Strategies written by Richard Felder and Barbra Soloman, discusses various learning styles and strategies that people use in…
Asesores could be defined as “curriculum specialists appointed to oversee specific educational programs; math, Spanish, religion, sciences, social studies, nutrition, counseling, preschool education and special education.”. The assessment of the education of the students, teachers, and curriculum provides evidence that education is paramount in Costa Rica’s small democratic society. The downfalls of the asesores in the education system in Costa Rica are: the lack of transportation and the…
The purpose of the current study is to examine how standardized language assessment affects Chinese young learners’ motivation for second language learning. Adopting the L2 Motivational Self System as the theoretical framework, this survey-based research uses two sets of questionnaires among 6th-grade test takers of MSEET in a Chinese urban city. This study uses a pre-test questionnaire to elicit 6th-grade young learners’ self-perceptions about how their L2 motivation has been influenced by…
A working team of two pre-service teachers will be completing clinical hours at North Twin Lakes Elementary, in two separate classrooms. One pre-service teacher, Ms. Viciedo, will be working with first graders and the other teacher, Ms. Natalie, will be working with second graders. These pre-service teachers have collected, analyzed, and reviewed various data sources in order to obtain a better understanding of their research focus. The sources of data that were used include the Standard…
I do agree with the student and teacher benefits of using the flipped model of instruction that are outlined in the Sprouts video. One of the benefits it noted was that the flipped learning increased learning efficiency. Because students can learn by themselves after class through the materials online and bring questions into the class to discuss with teachers and peers. In the article on Tampa Bay Times, Cynthia Brame indicated that “ What I think makes it effective is, it gives instructors the…
Assessment 1 – E-learning context and Learning theories 1.1 E-learning Context : The partnership between graphic design and Industrial design. The field of instructional design has always fascinated me. I feel that it has great potential with the immersion of technology; we can continue to change how we embark on the new approach in e-learning. As a graphic designer by profession, I highly think graphic design goes hand in hand with Instructional Design. I have made contents like…
What Classroom-based assessment meant by what I understood, was that it is different assessments that the teachers use in the classroom all the time. I believe the difference she has said was like the more teacher use assessment, the less “hit or miss” decisions will be. What is meant by stance of persistent curiosity is the attitude of being curious, learning new things every day, think of wonder, observe, curious and being interested. The difference is that formative assessment is for teaching…