Waldorf education

In my second year of high school, there was a time that I needed help. I felt lost and pretty much hopeless. In that, I made the choice to ask my history teacher for help. I am still boggled by the fact that I did, because it changed the course of my life forever. Before this encounter I felt like a ghost when it came to teachers; a person who slipped through the cracks of a system that was not built to protect nor serve people of color. Yet, as a person of color, I tried to do more with my life…

It was August 24th, 2009… I remember my first at in Vietnam for studying abroad in the American International School as if it was yesterday. I started going to middle school since when I was 7th grade. It was a memorable situation day ever in my life. First day of school, my hand clenched in my mother’s hand because I could not understand or speak any English, and also it was unfamiliar surroundings; I did not know what class to enroll me in. Even if the teacher says something, I did not…

In Indian education system, students have to study a specific set of subject even if they are not good at it or not interested in it. For instance me, I had to study a subject in which I wasn 't interested since I was a kid, which was computer science. I had to study this subject from grade 1st till grade 8th as a compulsory subject. Creating interest in computer science was just like an alarm bell rings. As I was at a critical stage (class11), with a heavy heart, I had to choose a course in…

wanted to learn they could help the rest of the classmates. I rather push my students until they get to a certain point instead of leaving them behind. As a student in high school I would always be told that schools was part of getting a better education. It’s true it is, now I’m attending college and I know that it’ll all be worth it. Mr. Lofthouse students had a different perspective, “We get nothing from school. How’s it going to help us in the future?” (Lofthouse 103) High school gets us…

The selection of the highly effective teachers is vital to the success of a school. In order for a school to be more effective, it has to be staffed with the right people who understand the mission and vision of the school as well as understand the importance of continuous growth. To improve teaching and learning, highly effective principals realize the importance of surrounding themselves with highly effective teachers who have a desire to do the job well. Fink and Resnick (2001) asserts,…

In this case study, Rich Thorpe is an extremely passionate first-year teacher at West Alton High School. Rich was very grateful to have received this job, and has put a lot of effort into his teaching, despite the pressures of a first year teacher. For the first three quarters of the year, he has had good classroom management skills, and his students respect him as a teacher. He clearly spends time thinking about his students because when he noticed a few of them were struggling toward the end…

Tina’s social emotional functioning was assessed using the BASC-2. The BASC-2 assess Tina’s internalizing (i.e., behaviors that manifest internally such as depression or anxiety) and externalizing (i.e., behaviors that are more readily observed by others) behaviors, and adaptive skills. Children rated in the typical range (T scores 40-60) are considered to be in the average range indicating that may sometimes display the behavior in question, but in a range that is similar to other children…

I feel that the lessons and experience that I received during my Internship I course was instrumental in my development as a classroom teacher. I will honestly say that when I was told that I would be interning in a fifth grade class, I was more than a little apprehensive due to the fact that I have been in mostly lower grades. I was under the impression that the fifth graders would be harder to manage. I believe that I was placed in the perfect class to allow for the most growth and…

Pope (Pope, 2001), throughout the students’ years in the education system, all of them learned how to do school, in one form or another. Each student developed their own tricks and trades to deal with issues they were personally facing and to help deal with issues that developed because of their school’s curriculum. As Egan (2001) stated “We all recognize the difference between genuine knowledge and accumulated codes – we talk of education as against training, wisdom as against “book…

School uniforms are not universally utilized throughout the world. In fact, across the globe people of color are significantly more likely to attend a school that mandates uniforms. Given this, one might postulate that communities of color value school uniforms and therefore, utilize them more often. This paper will suggest that this is not the case and demonstrate the role that colonialism and systemic oppression play in the widespread use of uniforms on students of color. This is increasingly…