I agree with Hooks that teachers are never done learning, that it is their job to be able to continuously evolve and be able to teach their students. This learning the teachers require comes from the students in their class as well. “I journey with the students as they progress in their lives beyond our classroom experience. In many ways, I continue to teach them, even as they become more capable of teaching me” (Hooks 205). I felt that this quote helped demonstrate the connection that the student and the teacher should have.…
Developmental Appropriate Practice means teaching young children in ways that meet children where they are, as individuals and as a group and help each child reach challenging and achievable goals that contribute to his or her ongoing development and learning (Copple, Bredekamp, Koralek and Charner, 2014). Generalization Teachers must identify goals for the children. The teachers must set skills that the children can achieve. With these set goals, it will help the teacher understand what to teach the kids.…
I have a Criminology degree. I spent three years obtaining this degree, but yet, it has not given me personal or professional peace. Since finishing my degree I have spent time to find my place in the workforce, to find out who I am and what I want from my life. The upsetting realisation was that what I was doing was not it. After this came the months of careful consideration of what I should do next, where should I go and will it fulfil my needs.…
I am a strong believer that accomplished educators have a professional responsibility to increase the quality of the learning process both for the students in which they teach and for themselves. Since becoming a teacher, it has been my goal to help reinforce…
Student’s mindset and behavior are one of the most important issues that may affect our future generation. First of all, in our society now many people believe that intelligence and talent are inherited from parents. Some may think that there is no way for them to exceed those who born with talent. In fact, we will hear people say, “That person born with a musical prodigy,” “he is a natural basketball player,” or “he is destined to become a great painter.” If one thinks they have limited intelligence or ability, they might have a fixed type mindset.…
We often hear that students go to school to learn. Yet how often do we hear that teachers are also there to learn. In a good learning situation, everyone is learning something. Learning is a fundamental part of life. We should take it very seriously and give it our best effort.…
First and foremost is student success. Success being, student learning and understanding the material presented. It is more than helping them memorize things long enough to get a good exam grade. To know a student is succeeding, he or she will have mastered the material. Once the material is mastered, the exam will come.…
Classrooms and teachers alone will not mean an improved education for all our children. We must search for new teaching methods, new classroom techniques, new ways of presenting old…
In the school environment, teachers face many challenges and overcome obstacles that affect student learning. As an educator, I have experienced that I touch the lives of the students in many positive ways. Teachers need to provide opportunities where students are able to succeed and face new challenges. The very essence of a learning community is a focus on and a commitment to the learning of each student (DuFour,DuFour, Eaker, & Karhanek, 2004). I have experienced that when teachers fail to meet their goals or fails to improve student performance, they reflect on their teaching practices and improve their teaching practices.…
“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning”. (Brad Henry) Not every person can be a teacher; it takes a certain kind of individual to be a teacher. Some qualities that teachers consume are patient, kindness, passionate, knowledge, and heart, also there are other many formal qualities that a teacher must need to be successful. At twelve years old in seventh grade I had this teacher that inspired me to become a teacher and ever since then, becoming a teacher has been a priority.…
Philosophy of Education Defining a teaching philosophy six weeks into my formal teacher training is a tricky thing. I feel as if every time I turn around, I see something new and shiny to play with and explore. I am sure, ten years from now, I will look back on this and laugh lovingly at my naïve views and ten years after that, laugh again, maybe for different reasons. Hopefully, in the following decade, I’ll retire.…
The most important aspect of improving education for all children is multifaceted: 1) To hire the very best people to be their teachers. 2) To make certain that they are provided with high-quality professional development. 3)…
Home-School Communication: The first day has come and gone, and it is time to communicate with parents. Parents are important people because they are the people that guide and teach students. The first teachers any student has will be their parents or guardians, and as teachers we need to respect parents. There is a lot that happens in the classroom and as teachers we need to make parents connected to the material as much as possible.…
My belief is that good teachers have students at the heart of everything they do. Learning teaching strategies…
However, I fully understand that I am learning just as the students are learning. I am learning about them as learners and how to differentiate my teaching for them. I also am learning about the importance to including all the learning styles to engage each and every student into the lesson. I now know that every teacher will encounter problems and must be flexible enough to employ a multitude of approaches when teaching a lesson. My role as a teacher holds great responsibility because I have job of educating students according to their needs and that will require many trials and errors to fully perfect.…