Since I was little, I always knew I wanted to be a teacher when I grew up. Though I know that teachers don’t make great pay and it’s not many people’s dream job, I’ve always had a passion for helping others, and always loved school growing up. With the demand for teachers being at an all-time high, I believe that the best route for me moving forward is to start preparing myself for the workforce early, to have the opportunity to be an impactful teacher as soon as I do get into the workforce. The
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reason i choosed this experiment is because since i growed up my science teachers would always to this bean seed project. They usually put the seed in a towel with no soil i was like how can that seed grow without no soil? This could help the teachers from elementary to put soil in their bean seed project so it could not confuse the little kids. The reason it confuses little kids because in order for a plant to grow it needs to have soil. It also applies to other seeds it could help them grow faster
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change behavior. Frist, the teacher must draw attention to the behavior they want to happen. Second, the teacher must repetitively through
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the specific needs of our children. I have a passion for helping children be successful in all aspects of life. I sincerely want to make an encouraging impact on the future of the youth. I believe that all children can learn through differentiation and many assessment implements. I will bring a helpful attitude and give my greatest effort to inspire my students on a daily basis. The technology that our teachers have access to today is totally astonishing and I have had great experiences using several
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essay that I chose to write about is "The Most Important Qualities of an Outstanding Educator." When I look back at my educational career and think about the experiences that I have had in school, and the interactions I have had with teachers, I am always brought back to a moment that I had with a specific teacher. The teacher was not a teacher that made certain I had all of my work done, or just participated in class, but this teacher had qualities that inspired me to be a teacher today
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this program, I had very little knowledge of what speech pathology actually is because no one in my family needed the services of an SP. But now that I have been introduced to the program and have seen a speech pathologist in action, I can say that this is what I want to be. This is who I am set to be. At first, I was apprehensive of the whole CTS experience because this was my first time being in an actual clinic, and I'm always quite scared of new things. When I entered the area, I didn't know what
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all honestly, I wish I had started this assignment at the very beginning of my pursuit in education. I would have a lot more books logged on Kudos. I have a clearer understanding of how important it is to saturate my classroom with books. Before I had a very basic or general plan for a small classroom library. After reading so many books this semester, I am able to recognize a number of themes with a little more ease that are present in a lot of the books. Throughout the summer, I want to continue
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For my volunteer hours, I went to Pentz Elementary School. I was in a grade 4 classroom for the school day. I chose this specific place to volunteer because I want to be an elementary school teacher when I grow up. Also, this was the elementary school I went to for Grade 5 and 6. I feel being a teacher is related to the human services because it involves a lot of helping others, understanding human interaction, and many more reasons. While I was at Pentz, I fulfilled a variety of tasks including
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professionals to detect when it is appropriate to use each type of power in different situations. Every person could need a different kind of power, depending on what they are in need of and the relationship we have with them. In the helping profession you will have many situations where you have power over, power for, and power with people. In many cases the relationship I plan on having is power for and power with, although as I want to be a teacher I will also have power over simply because I will be in a
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As a first year teacher applying for a job there are multiple things that I would be interested in. First off the fact that I am a professional teacher would be satisfying to me and secondly being involved with children throughout the day. I want to make sure as a teacher that I will be doing my job but at the same time be a great influence in my students’ life. My philosophy as a teacher is developing relationships with the students and my colleagues will allow all of us to excel and it will make
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it is, but he is completely mistaken when it comes to the benefits because it helps in developing characters and social skills for future generations. ''Do we really need school?'' Gatto asked. Monday through Friday, we wake up at 7 o'clock, get ready and go to school. We stay there for at least 5 hours. Always looking forward to Friday and summer breaks because that means no school, and always looking forward to the weekend. We repeat all this for 12 years. I asked a student who has just finished
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being said, I do think it is important to follow these outlines. When following these outlines it is important that teachers do not focus on the assessment. Teachers’ should be focused on the students’ learning and how they are retaining the information. While learning to teach I have watched a few teachers shut down students’ questions, these questions were shut down because the question was not going to be tested. Throughout the school year
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“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires,” (Ward, n.d.). In other words, a great teacher has the power to influence those around them in a way that motivates them to chase their dreams and grow in the process. Fortunately, I’ve had the opportunity to find inspiration from a number of individuals. With their help and encouragement, I was able to discover my calling: to become an academic advisor at the high school and college
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February 13th, 2017 Growing Up Again People always talk about taking risks. If you want to be rich you have to take risks. If you want to grow you have to take risks. Is it really this easy? I am inclined to disagree. I was born and raised in a country where if you asked the majority of the university students there what life is like after school, they would tell you opportunities come few and far. If you want to grow and get somewhere in life you should leave this country. So I asked some of them why
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couple kids running and playing on the playground equipment, while most of the kids are watch the kick ball game. Its the teachers against the class who beat all the other classes. The kids are in the outfield and the teachers are up to kick. When it comes to the kids against the teachers. The teachers don't take it easy. One of the teachers who are good at playing kick ball is up. He standing with his back hunched over waiting for the old rubber ball to slowly skip across the old concrete. Im in outfield
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children. I chose this career because I’ve wanted to be a teacher since 4th grade. It is important to understand the education or training requirements,skills or talents needed, salary and benefits offered, and the duties for a particular career when making the decision to be a teacher. If I was to go to school to become an elementary school teacher I would work in a public school. Most of the work consists outside of the home, in the office and in the school. An elementary school teacher mostly works
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exactly the same as itself. There are many different factors that can significantly influence an individual’s character, values, and beliefs. However, I think the most important one is the living circumstance surround a person. The living circumstance is a very huge topic, so I separate it into three parts. The first thing I want to emphasize is when and where was the person born and lived. There is an old Chinese saying says,” Different areas create different people.” It is obvious that different
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Teacher Hall of Fame: Professor Smith Throughout my school years, I have had many different teachers who all implemented a variety of teaching styles. There have been classes I have thoroughly enjoyed because of the teacher, and classes where I couldn’t wait for the bell to release me because of similar reasons. As I am working to become a teacher, I look back on my experiences as a student in the classroom, and one teacher sticks out. This particular teacher actually goes by the title ‘professor’
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important. In my point of view I believe that free time is more important in a childs life. Free time for children is very important in their life. It can develop creativity and a strong sense of self. When children are allowed more free time they find what interests them the most. I believe that children have more fun when they dont have organized activities because I see my neice everyday and she gets to play how ever she wants and enjoys it. There are times when we have asked her if she wanted
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Veritas means truth, and who wouldn’t want to find and be a part of the truth. We are all just trying to understand the truth. We won’t find this truth until we find God. Our whole purpose here on Earth is to enjoy, but also to live as God desires. The main goal of all of our lives should be to each eternal life. It can sometimes be difficult to live a virtuous life, but with the help of good teachers and lessons, we can learn. God gives us all gifts and a path to follow, and we must share those
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but, what do I really think is important? What values do I want to support, instil and nurture (Stonehouse, 1991) in the children that I teach? I have spent the past couple of days searching through my textbooks for anything remotely related to the word philosophy, scanning through endless pages on the internet and locked in endless conversations and debate with my peers and colleagues, just to wind up with my thoughts in even more of a tangle then when I started. But then tonight, as I sat down and
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overall the school boards over there are freeing up the imagination and creativity of their students to foster growing minds and increasing capabilities. Oppositely America is doing everything they can to decrease time spent outside and to lengthen the school days by shortening the already short recess times and lunch times. The man then scolded America for “needing to foster young minds”. If they want to do that then they need to find out the things that grow the students mind rather than tampering with
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April 15, 2015 Ethnic Studies 4040 Dr. Pao Lee Reflection Paper #2 I would like to discuss chapter six, Education Attainment of Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Young Blacks by Xue Lan Rong and Frank Brown. According to the authors, children from families with low socioeconomic status are more likely to experience difficulties in school and attain lower levels of overall academic achievement than middle-class or upper-class families. I definitely agree, because families who are well off financially can
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27 February 2015 National Honor Society Acceptance A character trait that I have possessed during my high school career and still possess today is trustworthiness. There are examples where I have shown trustworthiness such as babysitting, my job as a childcare provider at my church, being a teammate on the basketball team and on the track team and teachers trust me throughout the school. My first example is babysitting. When parents leave me with their child that is a big responsibility in itself
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that becoming educated provided him a deeper understanding of what American society is truly like, a country filled with potential, scholarly, hard-working students. Unfortunately, schools in this country sometimes think that students that do not meet up to today’s competitive standards should be thrown off to remedial classrooms, where little to no learning is achieved. On the surface, remedial classroom placement’s purpose is to teach children the fundamentals of writing correct sentences. This results
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Teaching: • How does a teacher best support high quality learning? By first having minimum student-teacher gap, and avail the chance to completely understand the psyche of students by getting to know them properly. • What metaphors, heuristics, or guidelines should teachers follow? A teacher should come up with such activities and teaching methodologies that encourages a student to come forth and participate more and we well aware of what is happening in the classroom. Teachers should have a daily
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Growing up in school when things go tough or it was hard to focus I remember my teachers saying “Don’t you want to be successful? You have to do your work!” I always said yes I do and would go back to work but I don’t know that I ever really considered what the teacher meant by the word success, or for that matter, what I thought success meant to myself. In adolescence it seems like the American ideology is thrust upon us that success means making lots of money. We go to school so we can get an education
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that standardized tests affect everyone, principals, teachers, students,
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said this to me when I was upset because of events that happened the day before. She taught me that not everything is as bad as they seem and you should never hold grudges. This really affected me during my middle school years. Sixth through eighth grade was probably the worst times of my life but I still have some awesome memories to hold on to forever. In middle school you are still trying to figure out who you really are and it could be tough at times. Throughout middle school I have been given
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Meyer, During our time in this school and chapter you have taught us so many things. You are not only a teacher, but also a mentor and friend. We have all had our ups and downs and you have always been there to encourage us. We all remember those times when even though we were having a good time and laughing, we still walked out of the room at the end of the day with more knowledge than what we came in with. You have a love for learning which you have passed on to us with vigor and you have inspired
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