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High School is an incredibly important period of life. It influences your social, academic, and personal life for four years, and prepares you for college and a career. This is the reason County Prep High School is my school of choice. County Prep's thriving social environment, challenging academic curriculum, and wide variety of electives will help me successfully carry out my plans for the future.

San Bernardino City Unified School District houses one of the largest populations for students with moderate to severe disabilities within the Inland Empire. Over the past decade San Bernardino City Unified School District (SBCUSD) has sustained an influx of students who qualify for a moderate to severe special day classroom (SDC) setting and special education services. Effectively educating youth with moderate to severe disabilities is not a simplex task, as it requires multifaceted skillsets involving various special education professionals. Developing and executing a service delivery model that targets student’s individual needs, while simultaneously supporting students in strides towards life long goals is crucial. Carmack Elementary is one of fifty-two elementary schools within SBCUSD that only provides educational services to students with moderate to severe disabilities grades kindergarten through sixth. The community surrounding Carmack Elementary has been deemed high-poverty, indicating a vast majority of students who attend Carmack are presumed as low-income status. Lastly, a vast majority of students who attend Carmack Elementary qualify for the free and reduced meal program offered through the district.

Relate assignments and lesson projects to real life situations. A common complaint continually heard from learners is "What good is learning this, I 'll never use this again?” In today 's world, with all sorts of technology available, computers, the Internet, YouTube and other forms of video that can be brought into the classroom, it proves necessary to put some excitement into your lessons and project assignments in order to keep your learner’s interested and motivated.

Findings of these research data results were stated as producing interesting patterns, yet concerns with the validity due to a small subject population size with not all students completing the surveys. The first survey produced a small outcome of only 56% of student completion rate, and the

Meadow View Elementary School is my practicum agency. The assigned unit is the Family Resource Center (FRC) which is a government funded agency. While completing the practicum students are required to fulfill the nine competences listed in the syllabus. The requirement for the competences led to me fulfilling various roles such as, being a broker, an educator, and a facilitator. The primary goal of these centers is to remove nonacademic barriers to learning as a means to enhance student academic success. The mission is to enhance students’ ability to succeed in school by developing and sustaining partnerships that promote early learning and successful transition to school, academic achievement and well-being, and graduation and transition into

The Rancho Solano Preparatory School will make new changes by developing satisfaction to the stakeholders. Stakeholders are “the persons, groups, and institutions directly affected by an organization’s performance” (Schermerhorn, 2011, p. 56). Also, Stakeholders are called task environment which can be distinctive and change based on the in the organizations which are the customers, suppliers, competitors and regulators (Schermerhorn,2011). The stakeholders of RSPS are the owners who are the Merita’s International Family of Schools, executive committee like Dr. Audrey Mernard who was appointed the head of the school. Also, the stakeholders can consist of the employees, students, parents, and competitors. The proposed change of Human Resource

When the project-based approach is applied to a group, students could help one another and, as a result, learn from one another. Students who are not having trouble with their English lessons could help students who are having to make more of an effort. They would also experience the benefits of team work and sharing ideas. Today’s employers want people who know how to communicate effectively and work in a team, so I feel my eclectic philosophy of essentialism and progressivism would help students learn skills that would be valuable later in their lives. A stimulating, progressive approach to English would help the students gain essential communications skills.

My time spent at Parramatta Marist College as a casual Teacher has introduced me to Project and Problem Based Learning. My experience has made me familiar with this type of pedagogical practice as I observed and assisted students in their complex challenges. The culture of learning at Parramatta Marist focuses on knowledge attainment

The article that I reviewed is Five Tips for Project-Based and Social-Emotional Learning by Kathleen Melville retrieved online from Education Week. This particular article was of interest to me because a majority of our courses use a group project for our final examination. Melville (2016) promotes the use of project-based (PBL) and social-emotional learning (SEL) methods due life-long skill development and increased future employment opprotunities. Secondly, she highlights the importance of SEL in the development skills of collaboration, empathy, and problem-solving. Additionally, the use of PBL is an avenue for the expansion of procedural knowledge acquition. Melville (2016) states, "Project-based learning allows teachers to break

When I create a project, I use standards and set objectives, goals, and benchmarks with specific quantifiable results using a rubric. Students must demonstrate their skills and perform activities to their ability (within a range on the rubric). However, I leave room students to adapt the project so that they have some element of investment and accountability that is uniquely theirs. Students are required to reflect on the results and their own learning experience that push them toward being a better learner, and at times a productive citizen in their

In this article the focus is on providing an environment where students can collaborate and solve real world problems. In the article they discuss how students should interact when solving real world problems. The focus is clearly on the tools needed to ensure that project based learning is successful in schools. This article is relevant to my topic as it give

How many times have you dreaded when the teacher assigns you a project-based assessment, especially when it is a large portion of your grade? It is just a useless activity, no learning involved, right? Although these assignments can be stressful burdens, they can be learning opportunities, too. They can also express one's unique creativity and help participation grades. Most of all, however, project-based assessments can provoke learning.

One aspect of my student-teaching experience involved working with my mentor teacher on pre-existing plans for her grade 8 English language arts (ELA) class. Her reason for incorporating me rather than allowing me to direct the planning for this group was twofold. First, the group consisted primarily of students with learning disabilities and students with behaviours issues therefore consistency was crucial. Second, and in keeping with a consistent delivery, she found that project-based learning was particularly successful in the past with certain students returning from the previous year. Thus, she created an activity called

As any public school, Riverside County Office of Education (RCOE) has to adhere to state and federal educational mandates and regulations. Meeting all state and federal government mandates and regulations is an important contextual factor. This is due to documentation and results need to be reached by students who are enrolled at any of RCOE programs. Implementing project-base learning, teachers need to ensure that state and federal mandates are being addressed as well as teaching state standards in all project-based lessons. The important mandates in implementing project-based learning that incorporates not only California State Standards but also meets grant requirement, while adopting new math and science

A longitudinal survey will be used to gather data on both students and teachers throughout the course of one year. A google forms survey (see figure 1.1) will be used to ask teachers the same questions 3 times throughout the year, beginning, middle and end, to show changes in attitude and mind set. While the Elementary Attitude Reading Survey (ERAS) (see figure 1.2) will be given to students at the same points during the course of the year. These results will be converted on to a spread sheet which will then be able to easily be