Lessons from the Classroom

Ms. Bearden is an English teacher and co-founder of the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, Georgia where she has taught in grade levels from kindergarten to 8th grade. In her book, Crash Course: The Life Lessons My Students Taught Me, she discusses about her life of teaching a majority of African American scholars and how they completely improved her life. Each chapter is labeled carefully and precisely to give meaning in the classroom setting. The chapters that caught my attention most were called Magic, Recovery, and Tenacity.

Social classes are a dividing system for people of a nation or country, and have existed for as long as history can date back. In the past, it has designated people to certain categories that determined the opportunities and privileges that they could receive. In the past, the social class a person belonged to was determined by which one he or she was born into, and this label generally stuck to someone for life. In more recent history, broadened opportunity has opened up an escape for those stuck in the lower classes. The social class a person is born into has become a starting point in life, and where somebody ends up is decided by his or her determination. In Toni Cade Bambara's “The Lesson,” the theme is about learning that a

Cardae- he did an excellent job of recalling all the animals in the story. He even remembered the last one was a little boy. I thought that he did an excellent job of filling out the chart. He drew pictures and talked about the story. His details lined up and his pictures matched what he was saying.

Knowledge is power, but knowledge does not always come with power. Knowledge is the facts, a state of awareness or skills gained by a person through experience or education. However, power has the ability or potential to do something successfully and effectively. Without knowledge, you are not capable to perform your tasks effectively and successfully. Education is important for us to gain knowledge. A person that is knowledgeable leads to successful life. Toni Cade Bambara, the writer of “The Lesson,” wrote this story to expose the problem of social inequality and the lack of education for black children. She also convinces us in her short story that the value of education (knowledge) and

Finished writing one pretty spectacular cross-curriculum lesson that ties children's lit pieces with environmental conservation. I think I'm most proud of this lesson out of all the ones I've written up so far. I used The Lorax (best Seuss book ever), Operation Redwood and Girls Who Looked Under Rocks (thanks for the book recommendation Sass!)

Teaching and Learning consists of various different theories that educators may or may not feel applicable to their individual philosophy. There are bits and pieces of a variety of theories that many educators feel are important in the classroom. The purpose of this paper is to explain the personal learning theory and how it is applied in a classroom. After an educator takes the time to research and do further learning by reading a variety of written books, the educator may or maynot change things in the classroom or focus on a different topic that they had not previously focused on in the past.

Before taking this course on the Geography of Health, I had little knowledge of global health issues or the methods of science used to analyze, control, and remedy the problems that arise in the health of individuals or entire populations. What was most surprising was the idea that after generations of demographic transition, the world is now employing alternatives to the traditional biomedical (empirical) perspective of health. The three things that did the most to change my view of health were the lessons about disease causation, the role of visual culture in health, and the concept of narrative medicine. Now, I’ll define and discuss the three concepts we covered that did the most to change my view of health.

Coates' learning of how the world functions at first happens in the boulevards, particularly as he shuns the Baltimore schools as pointless in diminishing the separation between the world and himself. When he goes to Howard he is more open to instruction in a formal sense, yet additionally grasps the part of a self-teacher. His self-learning is noteworthy and broad to the point that the classroom practically appears like his very own expansion perusing and work. His training additionally originates from cooperations with individuals around him and from his submersion in the more extensive world. He learns not only the historical backdrop of dark individuals in America, yet in addition how to think, how to love and feel in various courses, how

At Indiana University, I have an graduate assistantship in Residential Programs and Services (RPS) as a Graduate Supervisor. The residence hall that I supervise is Forest, located on 1725 E. 3rd Street. Paul Hafner is my supervisor. Being a Graduate Supervisor, I have learned that I play a key role in developing residents academically, mentally, and socially. A resident's growth and development can be achieved in a variety of ways. Being a graduate supervisor, I have adopted the philosophy of learning reconsidered.

One preventative strategy used by the mentor teacher to gain student attention involved the teacher saying, “one, two, three.” This was a cue for the whole class to stop what they were doing, look at the teacher, and show they were listening by responding, “look at me.” This strategy was used by all teachers in the school and observed to work successfully to settle over 600 students during assembly. It was useful during learning time when the teacher needed to gain attention to clarify a point to the whole class, or to signal the end of a learning session. Another way the teacher calmed a noisy class was to use a rhythmic whisper pattern “shh, shh, sh, sh, sh,” which prompted students to repeat the rhythmic pattern for the teacher. This announced to students the noise

In this story the author tells us about a girl named Sylvia, the narrator, who lives in a very low income family. A place where school is not a priority. A place where it is more important to be strong and hard, than to read a book. This was the thought anyway, before Miss. Moore moved in. She was a school teacher who took it upon herself to teach the neighborhood kids. On one summer afternoon in particular she was going to take the kids into town on a field trip. The kids are not at all happy about this because they know it is summer break and they are not supposed to be in school in the summer. They would rather be at the pool playin’, but Miss. Moore knows that if these kids want a chance at a better life,

Before the course I already had one-year experience as an English teacher, using my own teaching methodology, which was not efficient and lacked in many essential stages and aims of my lessons. At the beginning of the CELTA course I realised that it was very intensive and it required my full attention and concentration. But with the help and guidance of my tutors Dan Kirk and Susan McDowell, I was able to learn new teaching techniques and develop some areas such as ‘how to focus on the learner, language related tasks as well as language

Before taking this class I had very little knowledge and experience, and through that I did not know how to perceive people with disabilities other than what I saw with my eyes, which was their disability first. The truth is children and people with disabilities are everyday heroes. They have every day struggles and challenges that most of us do not have, they have to push and fight to do every day tasks that we can do without struggling and having to push ourselves, and they see the world differently in ways that we are not capable of doing so. They can love more, and are fighters in everyday life. We can learn so much from them if we choose to look and see past their disability because truth is, that is not what defines them as a person. I have learned so much from lectures and discussions in class, the documentaries shown, my textbook, visuals, and presentations. Here are a few things that stood out to me while taking this course.

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Classroom observation is a main approach of teaching research. Scholars or researchers use video to record the real whole class and observe the teachers and students’ actions, words and the efficiency in the class. Though the observation, they analyze what approach is more suitable. This paper will select video 5 and video 3 as the material to do the classroom observation. Different aspects such as teachers’ responds, questions, instructions notes and students’ behavior will be addressed to analyze the efficacy of this class.