Education Reflection Paper

As postmodern educators feel their way through an ever changing multicultural classroom environment, it is imperative that each hold firmly to their philosophical positions and do not let society influence them in a negative way. At the same time all teachers should be continually reflecting inwardly to make oneself accountable to their profession.

FIVE YEAR EDUCATION/CAREER GOALS? My five year plan is to become an assistant principal within my county. I want to impact my county with a positive influence, with a direction that is clear and where teachers and students can succeed.

I believe that each child is born with a gift. The more educated our children are today, the brighter and richer our culture will be in the future. Education is a necessity; it is not a privilege. My goal as an educator is to help students find their element and harness their skills to the fullest potential. They are the future of our society. Every child is born with the hunger to learn. As an educator, I will make sure that my students are in a safe learning environment. I will teach my students the necessary tools that they will need to learn how to be successful in their lives. Since I was a child I always believed that love and respect are two of the most important things that people will need to learn. I think that with the power of love and respect you can make a big difference in other people's lives.

Even as a native speaker, teaching something as complex as another language will always present certain challenges. During the course, and particularly during the observed teaching sessions, I learned several techniques and theories that I feel have greatly improved my ability to teach and control a classroom. More specifically I learned about the different aspects of teaching from lesson planning to classroom management. Furthermore, I gained knowledge of different teaching approaches and philosophies and was able to find out which ones worked best for me.

On October 31, 2017, I observed at P.S. 45 and was truly bewitched by the entire experience (and not just because it was Halloween!). Antecedent to this observation, I first met class 3-213 the week prior, when they had a substitute teacher. In contrast to their roaring and uncontrollable performance at that time, one could clearly distinguish their significant change in behavior with Mrs. Diaz in the room. Mrs. Diaz is able to control the class with just the sound of her voice or snap of her fingers. It was exhilarating to see how well-behaved and attentive the children were to her. Additionally, my cooperating teacher was extremely helpful and even thoroughly explained to me her methods on classroom management. Mrs. Diaz informed me that she is rather stern with the children and continuously uses positive reinforcement throughout the day. Due to their drastic change in behavior and return to normalcy, I was able to witness Mrs Diaz us key instructional strategies and techniques.

My name Jose Antonio Cintron, I am a United States Army soldier. I have been in the military for sixteen years, and for the last ten of those years, I have been serving as an attack helicopter pilot. In the following paragraphs, I will guide you through my personal educational experience, where it started, how it transformed to this point and how I want it to progress in the future.

These past few weeks of school have been a fun and stressful experience. People have told me that eighth grade would be easier than last year, but I have found that to be false. On a more positive note, I have made several new friends and become more involved socially. So far this year I am trying to apply the strengths that I possess. Perseverance, time management, and a good work ethic are the strengths that I use daily at school. When I am not doing school related work, I am either at gymnastics practice or spending time with family. A typical day in my life consists of school, practice, and sleep. I don’t have time to be involved with any school sports or activities. If I could chose to be more involved in social and school activities, I would. Unfortunately, there are not enough hours in the day to do everything I want. On the weekend, I enjoy taking a break from the busy week. It’s hard to do this when I have to catch up or get ahead on school because I know that I’m not going to have time to do my work. My goals for this year are to let go of my worries and not to be so hard on myself. I am striving to be positive and have personal happiness this year.

I believe that education is the process of ongoing growth within an individual. This process begins at a young age, almost at birth. This individual is born with certain interests and powers that shape them. Through education these individual powers or interests are continuously shaped, forming new habits, ideas, feelings, and emotions. An individual will eventually be able to share their ideas, feelings, and emotions, and become a member with in the American society.

Initially, when I began this project, I applied to a school which I went to called Abington Senior High School. I wanted to observe at this school, so I could see my old teachers and learn from them again. Unfortunately, that did not happen. When I applied, I provided the school with all the necessary clearances and I sent an email to the head of the education department as they instructed. However, the department head did not respond to any of my emails.

After completing Module Two, I feel I have a clearer understanding of each of the five core competencies of SEL, and how to begin implementing in the classroom to help the students develop the social and emotional skills, which will help them in education and in life.

From my years in elementary school, middle school, and now high school, I have had many different teachers who have an impact on my life and my educational growth. There's one teacher though, who went above and beyond any other teacher I have had and that's why she had such a great impact on my learning ability.

The lessons were taught in a classroom in a New York City public school. The school is in a low-income neighborhood in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The school’s demographics consist of a majority of Chinese students followed by Hispanic students. A majority of the parents of the students in this class do not speak English. The students were engaged throughout the lessons and it helped that they experience a positive learning environment in this class.

Walking into the first two weeks of the EDU program I desired to experience what it would be like to be a future educator and have a grasp of how to help the molding of our youth and giving them the possibility to become future leaders. Doctor dresser was able to bring in a Concordia alumni who had just begun to experience his professional education, career and is teaching multiple different grade levels as a young teacher. When he first walked into the classroom my first impressions were that unfortunately he looked very inexperienced and unsure of what was to be expected of the lecture I thought to myself in the position of a younger student in his classroom this is a person I would not take seriously. He then proceeded to communicate

This semester of co-teaching has been very eventful and eye opening. I not only learned about what I might find challenging about teaching, but also what I love about is as well. During my last lesson, while visiting with students, I was content as my role as a teacher for the first time in a while. I was more confident and comfortable and cared less about what the other teacher and students thought of me while I was working with students. During this lesson, I was also able to interact with most students one-on-one and explore their drawing and creativity with them, which was amazing. Working with this particular group of students really showed me how different students can be within one classroom setting as well, the good and the bad differences. Working with this particular teacher, I also learned about who I want to be as a teacher to my students and how your approach to teaching can either increase students’ educational success or it can hinder it.

We all have our opinoins of school, you either love it or you hate. Teachers are the ones who give us impression of school. Most of the time your opinion of school is due to your classroom inviroment. Your classroom enviroment depends on your class mates or your teacher, but in my opinion your teacher makes or break your how you feel about being a school. The way that a teacher operates her classroom can either be very enjoyble and make you wanna be there or make you miserable and make you dread having to attend her class. I don’t really remember much about my school days, but I do remember my fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Harrel, was the best teacher ever. A teacher you could never forget. I can’t remember any of my other teachers so I am gonna use my son’s Pre-K teacher as an example of a bad teacher. His teacher’s name was Mrs. McRee, she was not a partent’s favorite teacher. These two teacher was totally opisite of eacher in many, many ways.