Harry Wong People In Education

On September 30th, 2016, I observed a class at Ramirez Charter School in Lubbock, Texas. I had the opportunity to observe a third grade class led by Mrs. Yu Kim Johnson. She was assisted by a student teacher from Texas Tech, Abby Crutcher. The main focus of this observation was to observe all areas of the school and analyze how each contributes to or distracts from a positive, productive learning environment. Throughout this experience, I was able to get an idea of what could make a classroom negative or positive.

Lee Lorch is a math magician. And he is also a civil right activist. He got his education at Cincinnati University. He studied and earned a PHD for mathematics. He later became a teacher for a college in New York City. He was a leader of a campaign to desegregate Stuyvesant Town, a very large housing community on the east side of Manhattan. He later helped making housing Discrimination illegal nationwide, but it also resulted in losing his job. Lee and his wife (Grace Lorch) then moved on to the Southern of the United Stated of America. He then became a part of the Civil Rights struggle while also teaching at several black colleges trying to persuade a lot of black students to pursue there education by getting a PHD. He then ended

I observed the kindergarten classroom of Sarah House. During my observation, Ms. House completed a language arts lesson with her students. Ms. House used both whole class instruction and one on one instruction during her lesson. I felt that she did an amazing job with classroom management and created lessons that were not only engaging, but fun for the students.

Before coming to Prince Edward, Gale had taught first grade in Buckingham County. During this time Gale and I had the opportunity to collaborate; we discussed the curriculum, various teaching strategies, and worked on the school system’s pacing guide.

This independent reading report focuses on Tools For Teachers by Fred Jones. This book is excellent at describing the nuts and bolts of teaching. It is a refreshing balance to the theoretical works of Vygotsky and Piaget, and it is a solid start for people who are focused on the tangible, practical aspects of what to do at 8am on their first day of classes, when the “Zone of Proximal Development” just doesn’t seem helpful enough. Dr. Jones, a psychologist from UCLA, based his methods off of countless hours of observing natural teachers. When he’d interview these naturals and asked them why they were successful, he found they weren’t able to articulate the tangible things they were doing. This book is Dr. Jones’ best shot at this articulation. It’s a practitioner’s manual; backed up by evidence, but not overloaded with jargon. It is the best educational book I have ever read. In this report, I will describe how Dr. Jones defines classroom management, detail the primary tenants of his system, discuss the differences and similarities of Dr. Jones’ system to the research and ideas we’ve learned about in class, and present how the ideas from Tools For Teaching have practical application in my own future classroom.

This quarter I am continuing my observations with Heather Cyrus from Barbour Dual-Language Immersion Academy. She is a unique second grade teacher for Spanish and English speaking students. In my prior fieldwork assignments, I have not met another teacher who has been so ahead of her peers in evolving the classroom for successful, 21st century education.

Taylor is also a second grade teacher who teaches Science and English/Language Arts. Her classroom is a regular education classroom. Mrs. Taylor is a graduate of the University of Georgia where earned her Bachelor’s degree. She then went on to the Nova Southeastern University where she earned her Master’s degree. Mrs. Taylor recently received an Education Specialist Degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Piedmont College in May of 2015. I found it very interesting that Mrs. Taylor did her student teaching over in Auckland, New Zealand. Mrs. Taylor has been teaching for 6 years. She has taught Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten and Second Grade. The primary reason Mrs. Taylor became a teacher was due to the influence of both of her parents. Mrs. Taylor came from a family of educators and has always loved pretending to be a teacher since she was a little girl. Mrs. Taylor admits that the main challenge she faces is finding a healthy balance between work, and home. The best part of being a teacher is the reward she receives every day, and the feeling of accomplishment after each school day. While, teaching is full of surprises the biggest of all is the hours you work each week to be successful in meeting all the student’s needs. Mrs. Taylor admits that she is constantly changing her seating arrangement in the classroom. She said that she determines their seat mainly on

Ng’s portrayal of Leila as a school teacher and how difficult it was to connect with the Asian children’s parents is a situation relating back to the separation of education and the home in Asia. Another difficult barrier in education was the role of the student. In Asia the student learns what material is given to them and interaction with the teacher is uncommon. The parent – teacher – student interaction was a brand new idea to Asian families. Adapting to this new system could take generations of work by devoted teachers.

Upon receipt of an email from Ruth Ann Ponten, a 7th grade math teacher, Maya Thomas, the district staff development and instructional consultant, immediately took action to help support the struggling teacher. Ruth Ann was located at a school within a rural community that was undergoing a major transition. The community of farm workers and working class families was transitioning to a community of educated professionals that were being attracted to the community’s strong, tight-knit feel and impeccable older homes. With the change of families, new expectations regarding education started to emerge as well.

Further, this simplicity in her teaching approach led to a published a book called The Art of the Classroom. Haughey takes all educators back to some of the basic elements of classroom management that is currently being fine-tuned by classroom teachers as we just started the 2017-2018 school year. “Student achievement at the end of the year is directly related to the degree to which a teacher established good control of the classroom procedures in the very first week of the school year.” Harry Wong, The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher.

The standard way of thinking about education has it that traditional education is the best way education. In “Changing Education Paradigms” by Sir Ken Robinson, Robinson disagrees claiming, “The problem is they’re trying to meet the future by doing what they did in the past.” The essence of Robinson’s argument is that, as time has gone on, there have been many factors that have led to a change of dynamics within the classroom. With the rapid increase in technology and the different ways of thinking in students in comparison to previous generations, a reform on education is needed. Conventional wisdom has it that there are currently a wide variety of problems in the world of colleges. In “Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission?” by Andrew

“Who am I?” is the question Maxine Greene asked, as she looked around the room, before she answered herself: “I am who I am not yet.” This bold statement sums up Maxine Greene’s philosophical concept of education that stems from her self- proclaimed ideas of existentialism. In this article, Greene discusses how combining curriculum and consciousness in education can evolve into continuous growth and rediscovery for us as educators.

In that class, the student learns about different teaching methods and how to care for children. As part of the curriculum, we volunteered at Long Elementary as teacher aides. Working with 4th grade students and observing an everyday class room was such an awe-inspiring experience. I had a completely new perspective about teachers. I have so much more respect as before. Teachers put so much time and effort into helping children for their benefits. I knew from the first day I helped with Ms. Williams’ 4th grade class, how much a teacher is a positive influence on children. There is an overwhelming feeling when you help a student with a problem and in return they give you the most heart-warming smile. The experience at Long Elementary helped me make my final decision on whether I wanted to teach elementary or secondary school. As much as I enjoyed helping elementary students, in my heart I knew secondary school was the path God had in store for me.

The one area where I would take issue with Mr. Wong is that learning should not be fun. I strongly disagree. The most powerful learning experiences of my childhood, and indeed my adult life, were captured and retained through the spirit of fun. I believe that there is a way to make learning fun and compel student’s to want to learn. My heart breaks when I read lines like, “You go to school to work, study and produce.” There is nothing compelling for student or teacher in that statement. School can be a place of wonder, amazement, delight, escape and yes—even fun! I agree that study and learning are the

He also mentioned how this theory caused a profound impact on education and proposes a major transformation in the way our schools are run. It suggests the importance of training teachers to present their lessons in a wide variety of ways using music, cooperative learning, art activities, role play, multimedia, field trips, inner reflection, and much more.