Wendy Kopp is the co-founder of Teach for America which recruits college graduates to teach in low income areas for two years (Zhou). The idea for Teach for America came when she was attending college at Princeton and became aware of how her peers that lived wealthier childhoods in private school were doing well as compared to her struggling roommate who grew up in a poorer public school system (Maker). She began to think about this education gap she was seeing and how it could be reduced and the
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Why Teach? Alisha Anderson Grand Canyon University: EDU 576 March 6‚ 2013 Why teach? I believe that it was meant for me to become a teacher. I have a passion for learning‚ and I will make my classroom an adventure of learning. A teacher of the year also from Mississippi‚ Wynona Herchenhahn (2009) indicated that she was a product of good teachers‚ and I also think that I had many influences coming from great parents and teachers. I love teaching students‚ they bring out my best values. I
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Abercrombie Why People Teach When sitting with my former mentor teacher Amy Bergstrom she asked me‚ “why do you want to be a teacher?” I responded with a list of qualities and traits I have that could be applied to the teaching profession. I then asked her the same question and she responded with a very answer different than mine. She explained to me how in the profession you might now always want to be a teacher because it really is one of the hardest carriers‚ but the reason that people teach is that
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“You should join FFA”‚ this was my first experience with an FFA member. Once I joined the organization‚ it became a part of me‚ it changed my outlook on life‚ my career‚ and my mental mindset. The FFA organization has a motto‚ it reads “Learning to Do‚ Doing to Learn‚ Earning to Live‚ Living to Serve”‚ this motto has given me a new perspective of life. At the current point in my life‚ I am “Learning to Do”. I am in school learning valuable knowledge that I will need later on in my life. Once I get
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Why Do You Dance ? “Because it’s like breathing‚ it’s like walking to me. I’m not pretending‚ when I dance I don’t pretend. I’m more of myself when I dance in any moment of the day. I can be stuck there in all of my life. I dance to become someone else. There are so many things in this world that want to push down on you but when you dance you are free. It’s pretty much when I knew like I love the biggest because I have never dedicated so much time and effort into something like this. It’s not
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* WHY TEACH MUSIC ON MY OWN PERSPECTIVE We have seen from the first part of this assignment some reasons on why teachers (or we‚ MAPEH major‚ because will also be a future educator someday) need to teach music. Actually‚ the first part came from the internet‚ which I researched to help me give some information and ideas on why teachers or we need to teach music. But if talking about my OWN POINT OF VIEW about it‚ for me‚ we need to teach music first of all because music is an essential part of the
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Can You “Teach” Compassion As nurse educators‚ who could be a better example of teaching compassion to us than the Son of God Himself‚ Jesus Christ? Jesus was the ultimate teacher‚ healer‚ and lover of mankind. Matthew 9:35-39 states: “Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages‚ teaching in their synagogues‚ preaching the gospel of the kingdom‚ and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But when He saw the multitudes‚ He was moved with compassion for them‚ because
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913 psychologically normal citizens drank cyanide-adulterated punch and suicided in Guyana‚ South America. From those 913 members‚ 276 were innocent children. As informed in the Britannica Encyclopedia article “Jim Jones‚” these members belonged to a cult known as the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones‚ who was responsible for ordering the members to suicide. According to an article “Why Do People Join Cults?” by Adrian Furnham‚ Ph.D.‚ a cult is a group with “powerful and exclusive dedication and devotion
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type of student‚ the "I don’t see the value" type ‚which may be that they didn’t explain the reason for following the instructions to their satisfaction which in this case may be the reason why they don’t see the value of the tour‚ It is mentioned online in 2010 that there are eight reasons why students should join school activities‚ one of those is to know new people and have fun‚ it is a must that they enjoy what they are doing‚ it will be easier for them to learn by having fun with the experience
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Europe‚ and even though President Woodrow Wilson wanted to keep America to be impartial in thought as well as action‚ but after the sinking of the Lusitania‚ Woodrow Wilson gave a speech to the Congress about joining the World War I. And the reason why was the United States of America involved in the World War I whether for the advantages of the Democrats or the economy of America is still a hot potato until now. America joining the World War I is still an interesting topic to discuss
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