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this worksheet consisting of addition and subtraction problems. This did not affect me at the time because I thought I enjoyed math. In addition, in first grade, my teacher was teaching us about patterns. He wrote the pattern, “4 4 4 4 4,” on the whiteboard and asked the class if it was a pattern. I proudly raised my hand and stated it was not a…

Interview with a Technology Coordinator Houston County Board of Education Technology Coordinator Bob Blalock was more than happy to grant an interview regarding technology for an aspiring leadership student. Mr. Blalock has performed technology duties since 2005 and served as my technology contact during my tenure as a Business Marketing teacher at Houston County High School. I consider Mr. Blalock to be a very supportive advocate of technology use in schools. The Houston County School…

Section I. Theoretical Rationale and Philosophy for the Classroom Environment When it comes to creating my own personal philosophy as a teacher I had many theorists to build my own ideas of off. We covered a multitude of varying theorists this term, but the four that I found myself connecting with the most were Carl Rogers, Haim Ginott, Fred Jones as well as the philosophical pair of Richard Curwin and Allen Mendler. All of these theorists have helped in molding my own philosophies as a teacher…

Elementary Physical Education and Health Methods EBP1 A. Upper Grade Basketball Activities - Grade 3 - Utah Education Network 1. Standard 4 - Students will demonstrate competency in knowledge and movement skills needed to perform a variety of physical education activities. Objective 2 - Demonstrate a variety of skills and game activities. 2. A. This lesson plan is completed in one day. The students prior knowledge will consist of prior ball handling…

Introduction On September 19th, 2015 I interviewed a mother whose child was diagnosed with autism. For confidentiality purposes, we will call this boy Child N and his mother Parents S. Child N is now twelve years old. He was diagnosed with Autism, not otherwise specified, at the age of four. Their lives have forever been changed by Child N’s birth and diagnosis. The family faces many challenges daily, but wouldn’t change their son and brother for anything. Diagnosis Parent S said that she…

Shulman (1987, as cited in Killen, 2013, pp. 27-28) stresses that teachers have to develop pedagogical knowledge specifically for the subject they teach, in that the use of various strategies in the learning process can organize the content and make it understandable for the students. More importantly, in addition to explaining the content, teachers are also responsible for teaching the skills for the subject. For example, the Year 11 Economics curriculum in Western Australia (School Curriculum…

As a social studies teacher I feel I have a responsibility to challenge the status quo, create more equity, and inclusivity in the classroom and bring awareness to issues of social justice. I look forward to expanding and deepening my understanding of issues such as, poverty, racism, abuse, gender inequality, and LGBTQ concerns. Some of which I have and awareness of but not necessarily a deep understanding. For this reason I found that the quote from Einid Lee “those with more privilege have…

MODERATOR, smiles: Good evening everyone and welcome to tonight’s debate streaming live from Shoreline Amphitheater outside Google headquarters. From all of us here in Mountain View, thanks for joining us. [to the camera] Tonight is the fourth and final presidential debate and voters’ last chance to see the candidates side-by-side before casting their ballots next Tuesday. Much could be determined in the next 90 minutes; so let’s get to it. [turns] To start things off, I’m going to ask that our…

her students to use any addition strategy that allows them to understand the process of addition. For example, during the math portion of her class she has a manipulative sorted bin that the children are welcome to use at any time. The bins have whiteboards, base ten blocks, connect cubes, plastic money, and various other tools that can be used to help understand and solve mathematical problems. This is similar to our numeracy class because every class period you supplied us with similar…

Technology is a big part of the world today everything revolves around technology. Technology changes every time an inventor gets a new idea to help society or make a new upgrade. Technology is now even in automobiles such that one can connect their phones to the car speakers and play music, internet can be routed into an automobile so that the automobile is a hot-spot and you can connect your phone to the Wi-Fi. The interest I have to technology is that my goal is to become a software developer…