Chapter 6 Summary

Chapter seven of The View from Saturday starts off back at Academic Bowl Day, where Julian has just contradicted the advisory panel’s sources. This does not worry The Souls, who are ready to let Julian risk it all. Julian repeatedly tells the commissioner that the panel’s information is incomplete. Then, in a flashback, Konigsburg tells the reader more about how Mrs. Olinski’s team prepared. This occurs in third person point-of-view. The week of the district competition, The Souls and Mrs. Olinski brown-bagged their lunches in order to practice during lunch. Mrs. Olinski’s team continued to amaze her with their complimentary skills. They seemed to communicate with “a secret stealth language.” The day before the district competition, Conner LeDue, the principal of

Body language has a great deal to do with communication and it is believed that body language is

They say a picture paints a thousand words, and the same can be said for Body language. Body language definitely plays a big role in influencing communication, by observing body language alone it makes it easy for you toidentify whether somebody shows interest or puts value in what you are saying. It also allows you to make pre judgements about an individual. For instance an audience or an individual can perceive a speaker/someone as arrogant based on the body language he makes and not the content. Making body language a priority for effective communication.

Effective communication is key to developing and then maintaining relationships at all levels of teaching because the pupils have to be able to understand the messages that are being conveyed.

In this paper, I will reflect on my new knowledge and skills that I have acquired regarding teacher leadership, supportive communication and collaboration. I will also reflect on practical application of these skills, such as assessing the needs, problems or issues, and creating the action plan to address the issues. In the end, I will define how teacher leadership can positively affect student learning and achievement.

In chapters 11, Johannes deals with hard times including his mother going to jail and the stressof getting important papers and passes. In the beginning of chapter 11 his mother is arrested for her pass not being in order, leaving his father in an acute situation, luckily his dad had enough money to bail his mother out of jail. After his mother comes out of jail the family is in an austere situation with the possibility of his mother and the kids being forced away from their dad. With the mother being unable to find a job his dad suggests seeing witch doctors, although she got treatment nothing seemed to work so she went without a job but sought treatment somewhere else dealing with Christianity. Once his father heard of this he became belligerent to his mother and

Teaching is highly dependent on communication. This is made clear by Simonds and Cooper (2014) suggesting that teaching and learning is impossible without communicating, communication is inevitable in an educational environment. Outstanding teachers display effective communication, it is the basis of their teaching reputation as well as the basis of their rapport with students, parents, colleagues and others (Simonds and Cooper, 2014). “3.5 Use effective classroom communication” and “7.3 Engage with the parents/carers” (Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL), 2014) the two standards listed require the effective implementation of communication, highlighting that it is impossible to be a successful teacher in and out

Golden touches upon foreign racisms in chapter seven, and uses effective comparisons to emphasize and elaborate on his mocking tone and the overall purpose. Chapter seven convinces readers that American elite universities are denying the acceptance to most Asian-American and other foreign raced student candidates. University goals are to expand diversity and culture, but only foreign wealthy students from the top boarding schools around the world are being accepted to American colleges, some would suggest because of their money.

An area that I could have improved upon in communication was the speed of the verbal delivery of the teaching session, especially at the beginning, because Quinn and Hughes (2007) advise that this can affect the ability to absorb information and cause loss of attention. The speed of delivery was very important for understanding because the teaching method used in this session was talking, as defined by Jarvis and Gibson (1997), with the majority of the flow of the conversation being from me to the student rather than it being more interactive and involving discussion or demonstration.

Chapter 18 talks about on how to reduce crime focusing on social, cultural, and community crime prevention, which it refers to primary prevention. I can see how primary prevention recognizes the main problem on violent street crime in our country, which is committed by young people living in poor neighborhoods and urban areas. In order to reduce crime in poor neighborhoods, we need to focus more on the main problems. For example family instability, reducing social and economic inequalities between men and women, and restore social bonds with the community and social institutions in order to end social disorganization. I can connect a patter with these examples on how they can have a big impact on our young teenagers in order to stop street

I have spent the last three years as a teacher at the Montessori School of Pensacola, working with two other teachers in a classroom. An integral part of that job was our communication, making sure that we all worked as a cohesive unit to create an environment

Good communication is a criterion that sets many students apart in terms of traits. This is useful when building any form of rapport between them and the lecture or tutor. A student that respectfully communicates has also come out as self-motivated and is more likely to get more help from the teacher since their problems are aired out effectively. Students that do not communicate can be misjudged and mistaken for lack of motivation and self-confidence. In addition, students who are good communicators are made, not born (Floyd, 2013).

Chapter7: The New Age and Related Novel Unsupported Therapies (NUSTs) in Mental Health Science poses the discussion on the pseudoscience of the New Age therapies as these method of therapy was popular among pseudoscientist back then as well as still being practice among people in the mental health field. As the term New Age therapies can be defines as an unconventional and mystical practices, the term “novel unsupported therapy” also shows the same definition as it provided insufficient evidence to support their claim or theory in the treatments based on the American Psychological Associations (APA) standards. Interestingly, the chapter emphasize on influence of the New Age therapies in the past decades as the “belief system” was eventually

The authors, Rita and Kenneth Dunn, shared several tactile learning activities in chapter 6 of Teaching Elementary Students Through Their Individual Learning Styles. I found the content of chapter 6 immensely interesting. I am currently in my thirteenth year of teaching and have taught in 4 different schools, which has allowed for me to see and use a vast array of learning activities. The Dunns’s chapter 6 was valuable because they shared activities I had not seen before. I plan to use at least three of the activities in the upcoming months. In addition, to the new activities, the Dunns used pictures, drawings and step by step instructions for creating the activities. Chapter 6 was both shared both new and valuable activities, along

As a future educator there are many ideas or philosophies on how teachers should teach students. Students learn best when they are able to relate to the material that is being taught. Cohen (1999) writes, “This educational philosophy stresses that students should test ideas by active experimentation. Learning is rooted in the questions of learners that arise through experiencing the world” The curriculum is based on the needs, ability, and experiences that the student has. From the curriculum, teachers create lessons that influence their students to actively participate and encourage development. The teacher is merely an organizer who offers encouragement as well as prompting the students to use critical thinking skills by challenging them with questions. Students then use this skill to cooperate in groups as well as discuss view point that they may not agree with. This form of duel communication is a skill that allows the student to become more comfortable with their social skills as well as team working.