Do you think Serge’s skills were assessed adequately? Do you think he was correctly identified as learning disabled? Why or Why not?
Deborah Tannen is an American academic and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Her research mainly focuses on the expression of interpersonal relationships in conversational interactions, including how these interactions are affected by gender and cultural differences. In her essay Tannen uses gender to reveal the differences between male and female conversational styles in classroom discussions. She formulates the theory that males naturally prefer and dominate contributions to these debate-like discussions while females incline to contribute to less hostile conversations. Tannen presents her argument effectively using simple vocabulary and appropriate literary devices however, as the essay progresses she
▪ Phonics: This is one of the students’ greatest strengths. He is able to say the sounds of words correctly. He is at the same level as an average
Objective: At the end of this lesson, students will be able to classify sentences according to their type of sentence structure.
Although the topic of this assignment refers to your individual learning style, avoid the use of first person tone (words such as, "I, we, our") in your essay.
The teacher prepared a checklist of what she would be looking for while assessing the students during the discussion. On this
This will give students an opportunity to discuss their strong points and also look at areas where they could further develop their self-esteem and self-confidence.
I will start with a journey through a hellacious class focused around grammar. Coming into the WCSCC as a 12th grader, I was astonished at how little skill I had when it came to grammar. It still boggles my mind that it took twelve years of school before I met a teacher who really, really cared about how I composed my sentences. She wanted us to know what adjectives, prepositions, nouns, pronouns, and run on sentences were. However, she knew we didn’t. On the first day of class, she made the
Deborah Tannen is an American academic and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Her research mainly focuses on expressing interpersonal relationships in conversational interactions, including how gender and cultural differences affect these interactions. In her essay Tannen uses gender to portray the differences between male and female conversational styles in classroom discussions. She formulates the theory that males naturally prefer and dominate contributions to these debate-like discussions while females incline to participate in less hostile conversations. Tannen presents her argument effectively using simple vocabulary and appropriate literary devices however, as the essay progresses she detracts from
Each class seems to have their unique personalities, and some of the strangest personalities, our class instilled as a whole, was the attentiveness and caring personality we had towards each other.
One quality Britt uses in her essay is oral description, to tell her readers how neat people and sloppy people are in her eyes. In one example, Britt tells her readers, “Neat people are lazier and meaner than sloppy people.” (Britt 233) Britt also uses verbal description to support
On January 14th 2016 was the first day of Composition II in Mrs. Henry's class. At around 10 she assigned groups. The groups were made up of all the people that sat in the same row. The people in my group consisted of Alex Grey, Steve Abron and Tyler Baxter. Our main objective at this time was to get to know one another. So, the questions asked to one another were about their hobbies, achievements and goals.
Nicholas is helpful and collaborative student. He arrives each day with a willingness to learn. Nicholas’s positive vibe radiates to his peers. Nicholas has a quiet strength about him. When he speaks or acts, others pay attention. His eyes light up when he is ready to share a pressing idea, then he articulates his thoughts clearly and convincingly.
Day1: Today’s goal is to get students thinking about how other people interact with the world and focusing on the idea that not everyone leads lives similar to their own. Remember these students are seven and eight and likely are not asked to reason in this way frequently. To begin students will write on a piece of paper something someone might think about them, this could range from a physical to a personal characteristic.
This program is designed for the unit of HSC English Standard which aims to develop students understanding, competency and appreciation of the English language. In studying this unit, students will be provided with the opportunity to explore various textual forms so as to become reflective, insightful and effective communicators in an ever-changing society. It is becoming apparent that our classes are now more culturally diverse, thus our teaching practices should reflect those changes. The demographics of this English class is made of up 24 male students of mixed academic abilities from multicultural backgrounds. It is single-sex public system school, located in Western Sydney. This has influenced the selection of texts, supplementary content