Masami Semi-Structured Interview

To help Mrs. Cannon, first let’s address the teacher’s lack of knowledge about John’s background. Mrs. Cannon needs to “become familiar with the Asian cultural values, traditions, customs, home life, and support system” of her student. (Azira, 2010, pg. 124) If Mrs. Cannon is knowledgeable about John’s culture then she will know that there may be a misunderstanding between her and his father on how they both have high expectations. Although she may have high expectations of her student, Asians take their education to a whole new level. Asians put a very high value on education to the point that they do not care if they accumulate debt. The parent

I had never learnt Psychology in China, and this course had opened my eyes to another possibility for me in University. I was immediately gripped with the material I was given, and am still fascinated with how Psychology could help people different from how I was used to. Although my brief stint as a teaching assistant was not enough to convince me to be a teacher, it reaffirmed my love for children and eagerness for giving back to the community. My feelings about working with children haven’t wavered when I started at my new school in London. In my first year of sixth form, I helped as a teaching assistant for one year 4 class and two year 5 classes with ICT and English for three study periods every week. One time, I was assigned to a group of year five girls who weren’t as caught up as their classmates in reading. I spent a few days sitting with them, reading books and quizzing them on any vocabulary that would come up in the text. Every time I’d ask them what a word meant, they’d eagerly raise their hands to answer even if they were

Every teacher’s worst nightmare – that is the setting to which Madame (whatever you do don’t call her Mrs.) Esme Raji Codell stepped into as her first job fresh out of college. In this sink or swim world Esme, unknowingly, became a lifeguard to thirty youngsters, as she seemed the only one who could protect the children from the rough waters that are inner city Chicago. Through studying her very candid and personal diary, I am awe stricken by her extraordinary display of pedagogy as she exemplifies what it truly means to be a teacher. Esme’s proficiency in her dealings with situations surrounding equity, creating a safe, relaxed and positive classroom environment, expectations as a teacher, gender, diversity learning, multicultural

Junie B. Jones is a twenty eight book series written by Barbara Park for ages five through nine. The series had been under close scrutiny due to the main character Junie B.’s lack of maturity and self discipline, also, her language and mispronunciation of words. There are some that even believe that Junie B. actually has some form of learning disability. But what if all of her disciplinary issues, her shouting in class, her immaturity, and even some of her speech impediments stem from not her own learning incompetencies, but her teachers’. In a classroom a teacher has the ability to either build a student’s confidence and sense of industry or their skepticism and inferiority. The main way in which they can do this is through their teaching

Mary first decided to get her associates degree in early child development at a slow pace, which was 16 years ago. She then got a position at Fresno City College part time and also another position as a teacher’s aide at another school working with preschool children, working 19 hours a week for a little over a year. She had gotten a full time position at

Some experiences change a person and their outlook on life significantly. The process of growing up can be gradual but when sudden things occur, it makes it harder for the individual to handle it. Sylvia, the narrator and main character in Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Lesson,” learns a lesson about the inequalities of social class and the significance of wealth among people. In the process of these lessons, Sylvia loses some of the innocence that is connected to childhood as she experiences the hardships and difficulties of the adult world. The educator who teaches Sylvia this valuable lesson is characterized as the “misfit” in the story. She goes by the name of Miss Moore and is viewed negatively by most of the kids and parents in the poor stricken

In order to meet the study objectives, in addition to the case study, a semi-structured interview was conducted using non-random sampling. As respondents of the interview had to have particular characteristics such as ability to value property and knowledge about the property market, estate agents were contacted. A total of 7 interviews were conducted with estate agents in the West Hampstead/Kilburn area. The interviews lasted approximately 10 minutes. The participants were as follows:

1. Question: Share some of the background of your interviewee (or couple). What was this person’s/couple’s story?

Luu was growing up, she did not have that many struggles, her parents were strict about her grades, but that was very easy going for her. While she was in college, she majored in Political Science, this was very helpful for her teaching career because it made her a thinker and a writer, not only that it also was very helpful for problem solving and daily life struggles. This major helped her solve students questions and their life problems or struggles easier. As Ms. Luu was choosing her career, she wanted a career where she can be in the medical fields and be played plentiful, but the stress out of those careers made her chose a teaching career. At first, Ms. Luu’s parents did not support her teaching career, they wanted what all asian parents wanted a doctor or something in a medical fields, though they did not support doesn’t mean they do not like the career. Ms. Luu’s parents like the fact that the teaching career benefited their community.

To formulate a response to the question above, I periodically reflected on the eleven students in my classroom this year. One student, in particular, comes to mind is a young man by the name of Brando. Brando was a third grade, ESL student, who struggles in all academic areas especially reading. Is family came from Mexico with the intent to have a better life? Brando’s family consist of his mom, a fourteen-year-old brother and two sisters, one sixteen and the other thirteen. His mother worked 12-hour shifts to put food on the table, thus, as a result, she is never home. Therefore, Brando’s sixteen-year-old high school sister is in charge of the running of the home in the absence of their mother.

From the neurobiological perspective, outside factors mentioned may have affected the way her brain functions, factors such as the death of her father and the departure of her only child. These events may have lead to her developing a sense of loneliness and depression, and which may have led to other disorders that caused her to not function the same as she has before. The “variety” of life changes may have caused a change in routine or other, making her feel disorganized in her life, which may have translated into the way that she teaches.

As a child she did poorly in school. “I have C’s and D’s in everything… The only B I had was in conduct, but I don’t remember being that stupid (Mirriam- Goldberg 5).” As a latina girl growing up on the southside of chicago, she knew she didn’t have much of a chance becoming something. “...they thought the best she could achieve in her life was to be married, have children, and run a cash register at a local supermarket (Mirriam- Goldberg 6).” She went on to prove them all wrong. Attending Loyola University in Chicago she studied english

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” On the first day of school when I walked into this classroom, little did I how great of an impact this class would have on my life. Not only did I greatly improve my writing, reading, thinking, and speaking skills, but as a human being overall. Despite all the long, sleepless nights, I am grateful for what this class has provided me. This class has shown me that individuals always have room for improvement, and this improvement can be reached through hard work and dedication. With all the knowledge I received from this class, from individualism to the horrors of indifference, I hope to not let this information stray within my mind, but to share it amongst

Family, likes and dislikes, memories, and upbringing allow you to see what makes a person who they are rather than what they look like from your perception. Perception is a powerful tool. I have an older half-brother whose name is Ryan who will soon be 26, I have an older sister named Starr who is 25 and I, Jessica, am the youngest at 24. My sister and I were raised by a single mother, Cathleen, who loves and supports us through thick and thin. I too am a single mother to an amazing two-year-old, Theoden. In my rare spare time I enjoy painting, reading, watching Netflix, and hiking. When I am spending time with my little boy, I enjoy racing hot wheels and having gun fights. Growing up, I was played outside until the street light came on and thoroughly enjoyed the pre-cellphone age. Graduating from public school, I feel as if I was blessed with a good education and a ‘normal’ childhood for a 90’s kid. Growing up I always imagined I would be a school teacher, however as I have aged I have become more uncertain as to what profession I would like to have for the rest of my life. As this is the case, I have changed my major to a general transfer degree in hopes of granting myself enough time to learn what I would enjoy doing for the rest of my life. As a child, I loved reading “If You Give a Moose a Muffin” and “If You Give a Pig a Pancake”. The lesson this series taught me is one I will decidedly be teaching my son. Gratitude

Most of the book consists of interviews with victims from the gas attack in the Tokyo subway in 1995. Then, the second part, is interviews with members of Aum, the group responsible for the gas attacks. There’s an introduction where Murakami explains why he wrote the book as well as the process with gathering the interviews and writing the book and there’s an essay, “Blind Nightmare: Where are we Japanese going?” which finishes the first part. Interviews are separated into five parts, each are one of the five lines that were attacked by sarin gas on that day. The majority of the interviews are several eye witness accounts from the same event, one after another, before moving on to another train, another attack and the eye witness accounts