Waldorf education

high school classes have about 50 students in each and graduate with 500 students. Imagine the feeling of overwhelm walking into a ginormous auditorium that could fit a whole graduating class. Having smaller class sizes in college classes helps the education process from the students’ and teachers’ perspective. For many students going to college is a big step out of their comfort zone. Many students are made uneasy when attending their first college class and realizing it is in an auditorium…

The two subject areas that I chose to complete my back to back lessons on were reading and writing. There were two major factors that went into my selection. The first was that there are only two times during the day when two lessons are taught back to back. The first is reading and writing in the morning and the other is social studies and science in the afternoon. Because I had already taught lessons in the science and social studies areas, I decided that it would benefit me more if I chose…

School counselors are responsible for assessing, addressing, and advocating for the academic, career, and personal/social needs of students. Helping students achieve success in each of these areas can be a demanding and complex task. Many students will face barriers that may stifle their ability to achieve along these domains unless school counselors are able to effectively intervene on their behalf. One of the most substantial barriers to student success is the increasing prevalence of…

According to a January 2012 study, approximately 11% of college freshman had declared a major within the fields of agriculture and biological sciences, based on statistics presented by the National Science Foundation, just in time for the predicted need for agriculture productivity to rise by almost 70% to continue to feed our world’s growing population by 2050. Now, you may think these statistics may be boring or mundane, but I can promise you, the field of agriculture is not! Today it…

Although teaching is a field that is extremely rewarding, it also comes with its share of challenges. These challenges can be overcome, however, if the teacher believes in their students ability to learn, and is able to inspire and motivate them. The teacher can accomplish this task through motivating the students through lessons, tests, and a positive classroom environment. If the teacher is fully committed to their student’s best interests, the classroom will ultimately succeed, even if there…

students with disabilities to be included in general education classrooms. If a student with a learning disability is in a general education setting with a teacher who has never taught a student with a learning disability the teacher may have to alter their teaching strategies. If a teacher fails to realize a student is expressing signs of a learning disability the student may suffer with their education. There are a variety of ways a general education teacher can assist a student with a…

Among Schoolchildren takes place in a town called Holyoke, Massachusetts. Holyoke is known as an industrial town. This town divides by social status within the town, on the hill is the Highlands neighborhoods, known for the wealthy families. Also in Holyoke this is a lower-income school called the Kelly School. However, Kelly Elementary School was built in an old industrial and residential part of town called the Flats. The community has called this area the Flats for many years. It’s the older,…

A teacher generally understand how words and sounds are formatted in which it helps plan produce lessons to teach , but more important to help engage students to the lessons. The phonological system of a language includes an inventory of sounds and their features, as well as rules in which specify how sounds interact with each other. Linguistically morphology is the patterns of word formation in a particular language both goes hand in hand in formatting words expression and comprehension.…

Collaborative planning as a process was a fantastic experience in the sense it allowed for the creation of such a variety of ideas and thoughts to create a sequence of investigative science lessons. The initial group discussion about the direction of our lessons began as sharing and jotting down main learning intentions, approaches, teaching methods, learners needs and resources. Collaborative curriculum planning was effective once we figured out the best possible way to contribute our ideas…

It’s not fair, and it needs to stop, in my opinion. Along with that, I have gained quite a bit of knowledge about how parental involvement can be a huge factor in their child’s education. For some reason, I believed that families with a lower socioeconomic status would have more chances for involvement in education than parents in a high socioeconomic status. I could take on that perspective because I grew up with parents that fall under a high SES, but they were never involved in anyway with…