Why I Want to Be a Teacher

When I think back to the years I attended the school, the world of learning and instruction today as we know it can best be described as student driven focusing on relevant information to motivate and enhance the students’ learning experience. We are so far advanced from the traditional school days I spent in the elementary classroom where every facet of our learning was based on textbooks and the written lessons within them. The materials used were often outdated, as you could see easily in the…

When I think about my future I think of the things that I have always wanted for myself: a big house, a husband, a dog, and kids are usually what I come up with. The only thing left to figure out is what career do I want to have? I have never wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer, and being an astronaut seems too scary. For a while I thought that I could be a vet, or a composer, or a teacher, first tried working with animals; however, I was not very good and soon realized I was allergic to dogs……

Imagine this… A little boy named Ronald was in class getting yelled at for getting a 75 on a test. He may have done bad, but that does not give the right for the teacher to yell at him in front of the whole class. Ronald was thinking to himself “What happens if I were to grade this teacher and yell at her instead of her embarrassing me?” Later that day, Ronald went back home to tell the whole entire story to his mother. She was not that disappointed considering the fact that it was one of the…

Would you want to be tested to improve your skills and get good grades on everything you do? Standardized tests help our kids learn more and get better at test taking. Standardized testing is necessary because, they use them to determine how good the child is at that subject, also used to help test taking skills, and shows if the teacher is teaching correctly or doing the right thing. Schools use them to determine how good the child is at that subject. These tests determine if you need to move…

during the entire middle period of his writings. In book I of The Republic, Socrates seeks to discover what justice is and why it is necessary for one to be just. Socrates asks Cephalus and his son Polemarchus their thoughts on his inquiry, finding error and contradiction in each of their responses. However, their responses to Socrates’ question on justice only acts as a preface to the sophist, Thrasymachus’ view on what justice is and why it is imperative for the human person to be just.…

couple of pages, I have written a literature review based on a third edition book written by Carl Rogers and H. Jerome Freiberg (1994) called Freedom to Learn. I will first provide the reader with a brief summary of the book followed by what, and how this information will be used in my future classroom. I feel it is extremely important to debug such useful information and related to my perspective of what classroom management is. Then the conclusion will follow, including what I actually got out…

I grew up primarily in Foreman, Arkansas, which is a small community. It was great growing up in a close community environment, and it resembles being part of a large family. Currently, I live in Horatio with my husband and two daughters. Horatio is another tight network of people with similar family aspects. Other than spending valuable time with my family, I have many interests. Some of my interests include reading Literature and spending my spare time writing. Overall, my goal is to create a…

When I look back at my elementary years, I remember being irritated for having to go through the long writing process. I laugh to myself now because I chose this as my research topic. I chose this topic because I think writing is such a crucial curriculum standard for all students to feel comfortable with. I remember in middle school working on the writing process all the way up to even high school. Now I am happy that I had teachers who believed in using the writing process. I feel the writing…

will be learnt, when it will be learnt and how teachers and parents know it has been learnt. The concepts in curriculum theory provide an explanation of how curriculum is implemented. The five key factors are as follows; “intended curriculum (what teachers want students to experience), enacted curriculum (what the teacher actually provides), hidden curriculum (what children learn without teachers realising), null curriculum (what teachers don’t want kids to learn) which together result in the…

“Harriet Tubman: Dancing on the Freedom Trail” Standards: Social Studies Standard 4-6, Indicator 4-6.2: Explain the contributions of abolitionists to the mounting tensions between the North and South over slavery, including William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown. Grade 4 Dance Standards 3: Understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning. Objectives: 1. The student will be able to (TSWBA) explain and…