What the audience has in common is that we are all studying the same class, and therefore, we have all read, “I’m O.K., but You’re Not” by Robert Zoellner. Although the audience is diverse in age, gender, and background, we can all have an opinion of the reading material.…
Jerry is distracted easily and looks for any appropriate object to be out of control. In addition to his behavior, his communicating and interacting skills are a major hinder in his education development. Unfortunately, he is unable to speak clearly. He bites his classmates and punches his teacher. Jerry’s outbursts also include yelling, loud laughter, and negative behavior that caused a scene inside in the classroom. Most importantly, Jerry is unable to fully comprehend answer his teacher’s questions.…
I have really enjoyed my practicum hours, observing and learning from the counselors at West High School. Many of my observations surrounded graduation and A-G requirements. Several of the counselors were going through the transcripts of their sophomores and juniors to see if they were still on track to graduate. Then, they would call in those they needed to meet with and talk to them individually. The solution for several that I sat in with was to add a zero period class. The counselors took two days to call in all of the English classes. They went over the differences between high school graduation requirements and A-G requirements needed to enter a CSU or UC school. Then, we handed out their transcripts, went over their gpa, and…
The initial discussion actually made the classroom hooked to the story. So 4 points for content objectives.…
During this lesson, I was able to observe not only the classroom teacher, but also a student teacher from Texas A&M. As the student teacher was explaining to the students what a truism is, the teacher was pacing around the room as she spoke with the students about their essays. The student sat in their desk the entire period, listening and learning about how to correctly write a truism.…
The NAEA states that students should have one hundred minutes of art instruction per week, with a teacher to student ratio of one art teacher per three hundred to four hundred students. As for the construction of the art room there should be a sink that is easily accessible with cupboards for paint supplies. Other shelves need to be placed in the room for the less messy items; such as, crayons and paper. Plenty of materials such as, water containers, painting surfaces, aprons, smocks, or old shirts, newspapers, paper towels, assorted papers and stamp pads should be kept on hand and should be accessed easily. Newspaper without print is ideal for large drawings with pencil. Plastic pieces are great for sculptures. Linderman (1997) suggest that…
I felt it took me a lot longer than everyone else to get used to the system, and because the class was quite noisy, at times i was unable to hear what Heather was saying. I did ask another student to explain certain things to me, but I felt I was distracting them from their own studies. By the end of the session I felt no clearer about doing a literature search on my own. Even though I had narrowed my search down to 12 hits, this had happened with help from another student, and I didn’t feel confident enough to know how to go about it on my own. I felt confused and overwhelmed, but I was too embarrassed to stay behind and ask for more help. Fortunately we had all been given a hand-out as well, to enable us to keep practising in our own time. When I got home I looked through the booklet, and found after reading it several times it began to sink in, I got straight back on the computer and accessed the search engine immediately.…
According to Baumeister and Bushman (2014), “Norms are standards established by society to tell its members what types of behaviors are typical or expected” (p. 308). One step further would be social norms, which are “the rules of behavior that are considered acceptable in a group or society … Norms change according to the environment or situation and may be modified over time (“Your Dictionary”, n.d.). Different social situations call for their own set of expectations about the conventional way to behave and social norms help us to understand social influence, particularly conformity. I think that social norms are necessary and useful…
Mrs. Ross has her fourth grade students move their desks together into groups of 2 to do a group activity. She instructs them to pair with anyone they choose. Teresa raises her hand, “I don’t want to pair with Megan again because she doesn’t do any of the work. Can I have someone else?” Megan who is soft-spoken just looks down at the floor as the class waits for the teacher’s response. Mrs. Ross asks Teresa and Megan to come with her outside and instructs the class to carry on with the activity.…
“In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing. They should also know why and how.” Harry Wong is an educational speaker that tries to help teachers be able to not only educate their students, but also teach them how to comprehend and logically think. Even at Tell City Jr.-Sr. High School, there are a variety of different types of teachers; moreover, this affects the atmosphere of their classrooms. Many outsiders may see our school as boring and being the same as any old school. For the students, every single classroom has a different atmosphere that they either love or greatly dislike.…
I observed a general education kindergarten class at Monte Vista Elementary school in the Albuquerque public school district in Albuquerque, New Mexico.…
My name is Kimberly Godwin, I live in Denver, Colorado. I have 5 children 30, 26, 25 11, and 10 years in age. I also have 3 grandchildren. I work at the Metropolitan YMCA as a Teacher Assistant in the Toddler Room (potty training room). We share all room duties, lesson plans, cleaning and all the functions of the room. There are 4 of us 3 Teachers Assistants, 2 Group Leaders and our Director is hands on in our classroom as well. There are 20 toddlers. We are not different due to title we all are trained and the expectations are the same as Group Leaders. I am so excited about this class as our toddlers can be a challenge at times. I feel this class will benefit me in so many ways. I am persuing my degree in ECE.…
Preschool is the foundation of all later school and it is crucial to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity. Coming to preschool might be a big challenge for some kids, they come from a place where they are the prince or princess in other words the center of attention. Preschool on the other hand if full of many kids, some can see this as competition for attention. In this paper I will discuss four different learning center activities for a preschool class. These activates will strengthen fine motor skill, social skills and life skills. The activities that I will present are tracing, cutting, sorting and lacing. Also, the class will consist of students ranging in ages between 3-5 years old. For each activity the learning goal, the objective…
I had the opportunity to observe a 10th grade English “inclusion” class at the Greater Lowell Technical High School. I am performing my practicum experience at Greater Lowell Tech (GLT), and was astonished to learn that special education accounts for almost 25% of the student population! I honestly had little knowledge of inclusion classrooms, and any information I had obtained was through literature or discussion with fellow classmates. There were no such things as inclusion classrooms when I was in high school, and special education was not nearly as prevalent. I chose an inclusion classroom to do my observation out of sheer curiosity and thought it would be an interesting experience. I knew a direct observation for this assignment would definitely give me insight into what techniques are used with the special education students, and allow me to see how they interact and work with regular students. This class was 90 minutes long, and co-taught by Mr. John Gibson (SPED), and Mrs. Jenny Flood (9th and 10th grade English teacher).…
On Monday, March 13th, I observed one of the six 2nd grade classes at John F. Kennedy Magnet School in Port Chester, New York. There were twenty-three students in this class, ten girls and thirteen boys. 96% of the students were Hispanic, ten of them were English Language Learners, and six of them had IEPs. The classroom’s educational team consisted of Ms. B. the general education teacher, Ms. P. the special education teacher, Ms. I the teaching assistant, and Ms. G. the teacher aide.…