TEACHING PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT Teaching Philosophy Statement November 8‚ 2011 Cassandra (Cassie) Moderegger 1 TEACHING PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT 2 Horton Hears a Who! I feel that so often children are not viewed as equals to the rest of society. Their abilities and intellect are many times underestimated and opinions sometimes silenced. Children are human beings‚ people with amazing thoughts and creative ideas with a desire to tackle any task put in front of them. As a future
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English Language Learners & Education: How to Create Success in the Classroom DeCapua‚ A.‚ & Marshall‚ H. (2010). Students with limited or interrupted formal education in US classrooms. Urban Review‚ 42‚ 159-173. This article addresses the challenges of learning in the US for a particular English Language Learner (ELL) group known as SLIFE (students with limited or interrupted formal education)‚ who share the characteristics of having little to no English language proficiency‚ native language
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English language students across the country is a highly charged topic that runs from the classroom to Capitol Hill. There have been many shifts in direction and focus of educational programs for English Language Learning (ELL) students during the past century in our nation’s history. In 1968‚ with the passage of the Bilingual Education Act (Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) legislation was adopted to support programs for educating language-minority students. For the first
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ELL Classroom Observation The main purpose of this paper is to observe and evaluate an ELL lesson using the SIOP (The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol) checklist ("Lesson Plan Checklist For The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)"). The emphasis of this observation will be on Lesson Preparation‚ Building Background‚ and Comprehensible Input. Using literature as an English learning tool is the lesson that we will be assessing in the paper. The Lesson The use of literature
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Instructional Strategies for ELL Classrooms Grand Canyon University SPE-523N English Language Teaching Foundations and Methods November 17‚ 2010 There are many different strategies that an instructor can use in ELL classrooms or in classrooms in which ELL students have been mainstreamed. As always‚ instructors are called upon to constantly modify their curriculum and instruction in order to meet the needs of each individual learner. This is made more possible if the instructor has more knowledge
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who worked with my strengths‚ encouraging me to be the best I could possibly be. Now I want to be that teacher. I want to fulfil my role as a teacher‚ to shape my students lives giving them the ultimate educational
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The issues of ELL assessment that I am most interested in relate to understanding the right mix of formal testing and other assessment methods to best understand both initial placement and progress toward language proficiency. It seems like the mix will be different depending on the specific context and certainly should allow for some creative assessment alternatives. I am most interested in teaching adults and I believe that assessments for adults might be significantly different than those
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Statement of Teaching Philosophy “The classroom”‚ bell hooks writes‚ “remains a location of possibility…the opportunity …to demand of ourselves and our comrades an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries.” I believe it is the Women’s‚ Gender and Sexuality Studies’ classroom that uniquely offers such an opportunity on in the university setting for teachers and students to engage with‚ co-produce‚ disseminate and be empowered
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ELL Placement Assessments Today receiving an education is especially for teachers who understand the importance of receiving an education along with parents they set expectations so that our students can aim high and accomplish their life goals in spite of what is going on in todays society. Therefore it is important and crucial that every child is prepared properly and successfully in every academic area by the time they enter high school. After asking a view questions concerning our ELL students
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TEACHING PHILOSOPHY AND CLASSROOM BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT PLAN Griffith University Personal Philosophy of Teaching and Learning A classroom is a very dynamic and spontaneous place. Every classroom is comprised of a diverse combination of individuals who all contribute to the unpredictable nature and uniqueness of the class. The reality that no two students are alike and no two classes are ever alike‚ contributes greatly to the difficulty of establishing a realistic and effective classroom
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