I have had to babysit Keltie, my older sister Tamara’s dog, for her for the past three years. When her boyfriend Joe and her decided to make the trip from Colorado to Iowa, I am left with this responsibility. The first year I babysat I really enjoyed it, mainly because I just met him and learned about how fun and loveable he was. The second year I took care of Keltie I carried more responsibilities. This year, compelled to wake up so early to take care of him, made the amusement fall away. Tamara…

It was the very first day of first grade. I starred at the dork across the room. He had glasses, a goofy bowl haircut, and a sweater vest. I recall thinking to myself I would never be friends with him, just look at him, he 's such a geek. Half of the school year had gone by and I made sure I never talked to him, not even one time. I had kept this record going for a while until one day I decided to take my dog for a walk. Walking him through the neighborhood, I noticed a couple of kids playing inside…

I began attending school at the age of five years. In those days Kindergarten had not been invented. Although I remember my first grade teacher, Miss Lillian Bush, quite well, I recollect little about the classroom activities. I remember the “Sage grass” forts, the games we played and some things I won’t mention. I have held on to a vivid image of the school house, but the education part is not that clear. My father often talked about the Oak Hill School on Blackjack Mountain. It was a one room…

One course that I feel made a big impact on me through this program was week 5 of PEDG 5373 Student Expectations and Motivations. I completed this course the summer before my second year of teaching. My first year of teaching was all about learning how I would function in the classroom and thanks to this course, my second year became about how my students functioned in the classroom. I learned how to recognize the different types of motivations and how to tap into that for each student. With that…

support learning and assessment of a my first year student on a busy acute medical ward. This assignment will refer to interpersonal skills to develop effective working relationship between mentor-mentee and practical steps taken to facilitate her learning, which in this case I will be teaching my student to do a female catheterisation. the discussion within the assignment will incorporate strategies and learning theories used to help enhance and develop my students learning and evaluate assessment…

Ina is a 6-year-old black girl who is in the first grade. She is a very happy and energetic student. She has a 4-year-old sister with whom she gets along very well. Her mother is from NYC and her father is Jamaican. Her parents speak Spanish. She also speaks Spanish. Ina likes to watch TV and very much like going and checking out books from the library. She likes going to the beach with her sister and family. She walks to her home from school and watch TV after school. She likes watching programs…

I learned how to write essays in eighth grade, three years before I entered Writing 101. However, this class made me realize that I was not strong in many areas of writing and it has helped me strengthen those areas. I had weak vocabulary; simple sentences, that had no variety; It never took me long to write an essay, only about thirty minutes; and my punctuation only consisted of periods and commas. Looking back at previous essays, I can see how this course has affected my growth as a writer;…

to shape how much we want to be cognitively engaged in this task". During my first year teaching I created a song to assist in my students’ learning the key words needed to solve word problems. Once they learned this song and the gestures, they were able to apply it in context and use it whenever it was needed. I did not need technology to create the song nor many resources. All I had to do was take a risk and chant it to my students as well as act out the gestures. As a result of following each of…

Freshman Wrestling (A story about the trials of my first year of wrestling) The football season had just ended in Orem Utah and my coach was an assistant wrestling coach. People had been telling me things about wrestling the whole football season to the point where I actually considered it. I went to open mats one day and decided that I was going to wrestle. There were two other first year freshmen in my weight class and I beat both of them. In my first year of wrestling I was already varsity.…

As I walk into a second grade classroom, I take notice of all the colorful posters and the children happily chatting. The teacher acknowledges me with a wave while she is sitting with the children reading a story. I am there to observe John who is a 7-year-old male student in the class who had been diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder by the psychiatrist at Jewish Family Children’s Services. During a prior Child Study Team meeting, his teacher reported that he is constantly not…