Sherry Qiao Hanssi Li Michael Niu Rebecca Wang October, 8,2014 English III Period 1 The declaration of freedom in class When you meet some situations in school's classes that let you feel you cannot 100% pay attention and your thinking is limited, we need to get it over and fight for our freedom during the class.I believe everyone's school life is very importan to them; also, it influences our spirit and future. We should get more freedom in the class
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Becoming An Effective Teacher Adeniran J konan Prof Howard Pettus Edu 12 12/11/13 1) Do you think teachers are born, or made? Debate a classmate who holds the opposite point of view. Interview elementary and secondary teachers and ask them what they think about this question. Do some of them say it is a combination of both? If so why? Which part is art, which part skill? Answer: This term teacher is giving to someone who decided to pass their knowledge to others. There are two different
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Michelle Byrd TCH EDU-2209 November 18, 2014 Urban Book Report According to what you read, describe at least three challenges that are unique to teaching high poverty students? Three challenges that are unique to teaching high poverty students are lack of parent participation, lack of or limited access to technological resources, and lack of teacher encouragement. Parent participation is very important in the development of children from kindergarten to 12 grade. While doing observations at the
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around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher” (Gallagher). Background information on editorial topic Being a teacher is one of most important role in our society. These teachers fill people of all ages with knowledge and lessons that will play a significant role in helping them grow up. While it is the teacher’s job to teach their students, they also want to get paid for doing their job. Explain the complaint about the topic that you want to argue Teachers don’t get the amount of pay or fund that
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Secondary Education I am planning to major in Secondary Education. As I grew up I always wanted to be a teacher, I forced my siblings and cousins to play school all the time. I always looked forward to the day that I could teach my own class of students and give someone the opportunity to learn from me. I have always fanaticized about decorating my classroom and being a very creative teacher to where my students actually liked coming to my class. Majority of people have that one class that they
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Should Teachers Have the Authority to Eliminate Disruptive Students from Their Classes Permanently? Nancy H. Wieczorek Vikki Kugel-Brandt University of Phoenix Should Teachers Have the Authority to Eliminate Disruptive Students from Their Classes Permanently? Disruptive Students, when is too much Even though every child has the right to an education, the teacher should be able to eliminate a disruptive students from their classroom permanently. The reason why teachers should be able to eliminate
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“I just don't understand! Why you have to be so simple? Answer me Elizabeth. “Why would you sit there and pee on yourself?” and you think I am going to clean that mess up, well you thought wrong.” “Roselda, go sit down! I told you before you are not going to get a treat, you don't ever do your homework, so you can just sit there amongst the rest of your “friends” until you act like you want to be in this class.” You can give the cupcakes to all the students, but none of those Mexicans expect
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that means dealing with a wide variety of teachers on a daily basis. Some are nice, some are mean, and some we believe to be just plain crazy. Teachers should always take into consideration the choices that they make, as students are constantly looking up to them. A teacher has to be a role model at all times. This includes, exhibiting the right behavior in class, poised body language and also in terms of the content being taught. As a role model, a teacher must respect others and correct student's
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Arming Teachers: Yes or No? With school shootings on the rise, is arming teachers really a good idea? We believe that arming teachers would not be the preferable choice to protecting students from school shootings. In fact, the act of arming teachers may be even more detrimental than not arming teachers because there would be an increase in safety problems, a hierarchy which would be built off of fear, and the expense as well as training. As we know, school shootings in the U.S. continue to rise
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Children Becoming Horrible Teachers and, Replacing Them with Computers that Will Hopefully Not Take Over The World, but Will Change It, Seeing that the World is Cruel and Turns Children into Horrible Teachers all because an Individual Teacher Yelled at a Student in 4th Grade. The world needs teachers, effective teachers! There are currently 25.8 million teachers in the world, and 3.1 million teachers in the U.S.A. This doesn't necessarily mean they are all good teachers. These numbers tell how many
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Do you want to study in High School or in College? These two options are very dissimilar, althogh in both you can learn a lot. These differences include homework, tests, and attendance polices. The first difference is homework. In High School most teachers will assign you to turn in your homework late if you give them an excuse such as "I forgot it at home" or "It is in my locker". In contrast, in College if you give your professor one of these excuses, they will say "Too bad" and you do not have
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word respect has different meanings because people were raised differently therefore the word respect has is very broad and diverse. Having rules creates structure and well organized atmosphere. In a classroom respect should be proved by both the teacher and the students, however, there’s a different kind of respect that’s needed from a freshman classroom to a senior classroom. The real world requires different respect than the classroom, nonetheless respect is obliged regardless. In the real world
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no longer do their job in teaching but only satisfy the needs of students. Edmundson’s essay was very long, reading through it I became interested in what he began describing. It was the end of the semester a quick survey represented feedback on his class. Many said they found the class to be “enjoyable” Edmundson became frustrated, the role behind a professor is to change people challenging what they have learned. Due to criticism he saw students do not want to be changed but just want to complete
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life. In the article, “ All Roads Led to Poly for Principal Ari Bennett, Head Parrot’s Passionate Voice for Students” written by Karina Avila and Kate Martinez they show us how the American Dream is possible to achieve no matter where you come from, you can do it if you put dedication to it. In my opinion America does provide access to the American Dream even though has now been harder to achieve. The government is constantly cutting health benefits and education for kids, but at the same time they
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Mrs. O’Rafferty English 4 Period 3 Senior Project The career I want to be in is teaching. The reason why I choose this career is because of a few teachers that have inspired me to learn new things. I want to be able to give knowledge to those who are unaware of things they have not yet been taught. If it was something I found interested in, I would automatically love learning about it. I want to give others a chance to experience new and exciting things. I also like being very helpful and give
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CX DEBATE RESOLVED (TOPIC): should teachers in the united states get paid more? CONTENTION 1:I believe teachers should get paid more. Teachers in my opinion is one of the most important job to have in this world. How can we accomplish what we have in this world with out teachers? SOURSE: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/Bridging-Differences/2013/03/cant_we_pay_our_best_teachers_.html “They are teachers because of their sense of mission, because of their ... or skills would be harmful, because
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Mrs. O’Rafferty English 4 Period 3 Senior Project The career I want to be in is teaching. The reason why I choose this career is because of a few teachers that have inspired me to learn new things. I want to be able to give knowledge to those who are unaware of things they have not yet been taught. If it was something I found interested in, I would automatically love learning about it. I want to give others a chance to experience new and exciting things. I also like being very helpful and give
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Do you believe google is making us stupid? By: “Nicholas Carr and Peter Norvig”. I personally do not believe google is making us stupid therefore i disagree with Nicholas Carr and agree with peter norvig. If you want to know my reasons keep reading. Why I disagree with Nicholas Carr, well i disagree with Nicholas Carr because even when you are searching something on the internet or google you need to be smart enough to know what you're doing. For example today google helps many people find out what's
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5-1-2011 Against School-Engaging The Text 1. Question: Why does Gatto think that school is boring and childish? How does Gatto’s depiction of school compare with your own elementary and secondary school experience? Answer: Gatto thinks school is boring because the teachers and students are bored with material. The students say they already know the material. I can compare my school experience to Gatto’s depiction of school. My experience in elementary was a breeze and easy. Then I entered
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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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My goals for high school consist of many things. First I want to start it with me getting good grades. Getting good grades has never been my specialty nor was I any good at in middle school. In middle school I never really tried because I knew it wasn’t going to count. But now that i’m in highschool I want to try my best to get As. Another one of my goals as a Freshmen is to be Ms. Mitchell’s favorite student. Which shouldn’t be considering she loves me as much as she would her child. I can basically
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American Education “Bug” Nelson Mandela stated, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” In 2013, about 65 countries’ students took the PISA test; unexpectedly, in the PISA test results, American students dropped behind many countries, but Shanghai’s students were crowned. By-standers see more than gamesters. As a international student, I am educated by different systems of the two countries, and I think there are three problems in American education:
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Would you want to put your child into a school where they will be more likely to get bad grades, lose interest or fall behind? Merit pay or teacher pay for performance is linking how well the students do on standardized test with the pay of their teachers. If a student does exceptionally well on a standardized then the teacher would be rewarded with money. On the other side of it if a student does poorly on a standardized test, then the teacher will not receive as much money. Teachers pay should
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a topic people have been arguing about for years and are still arguing about. Most kids say no except, there are some teachers and parents that think kids should have homework. I think that kids should not have homework for a few reasons I will talk about now. People always think about how homework is hard for them except, who has to grade up to hundreds of papers a day? Teachers have hard jobs and grading homework doesn’t help. I found this on the website, “ 5 Reasons Kids Need Homework and 5 Reasons
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about her experiences as a teacher. As she lectured, she primarily focused on expressing all the negative aspects that come with being a teacher based on her personal experiences. Things such as receiving a low wage compared to the amount of work you do, lack of privacy and the struggle of filing paperwork. However, the struggles that she points out are an actual fact and the reality of many teachers. Her argument was discouraging, and it made me reflect on how I want to navigate my life and career
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Have you ever thought about switching to a year-round school schedule? Well I hope you have not and I will give you reasons why. There are many cons that come with year-round schooling. These cons include (but are not limited to) burnout, extracurricular activities, family burden, academic scores, stress, student satisfaction, expenses, and childcare. Burnout is one of the major disadvantages that year-round schooling faces. Since year-round schools do not give kids a full summer break to unplug
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Teachers should capitalize and enhance first what the students already know by allowing students to formulate a discussion outline of previous learned knowledge of subject matter in small groups. A group leader form each group is selected to produce that group’s outline for discussion. This is repeated until all groups have completed this process with a finished outline for the entire class to use as a forum for discussion. This is a good example for teachers to use as a building block and tool
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uniforms: Even though The main argument against pros for school uniforms is that some kids can't afford school uniforms., Uniforms make schools better because it makes kids nicer to each other and school uniforms can stop people from judging others .So do you think parents like the fact that their kids have to wear school uniforms? So breaking it down most parents think it’s great for there kids to wear school uniforms because, It helps the parents be able to shop for there kids. (Viadero) Parents also
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Have you ever wondered why teachers choose the books you read in class? Or why you always enjoy them? Well, I support the decision to let all teachers choose the selection of reading for next school year. Teachers should select the books because they know what skills and lessons that need to be interpreted. They determine the books that have meaning and skill that we as students need to learn. As teachers they also have experience of what the good books are. For example, most English teachers are
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When people ask me why I want to be a teacher, my first response is I love kids! My second response is I love to see kids light up when they understand something. I love the simple joy they get out of learning something knew or just finally grasping a concept that was challenging for them. Kids are sponges and they soak up everything! It is my responsibility as a teacher to teach my kids the standards of the grade level and subject matter. It is my job to teach them in a way that each child will
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