My Classroom: A Conceptual Analysis

The most important factor affecting student learning is the teacher. If the teacher is ineffective, students will achieve inadequate progress academically. Effective teaching and learning cannot take place in a poorly managed classroom. If students are disorderly and disrespectful, with no apparent rules and procedures to guide behavior, chaos becomes the norm. Teachers struggle to teach, and students will learn much less than they should. http://behaviourmanagementreport.weebly.com/

I feel I was not successful in nursing 120 for the fall semester for a multiple reasons in regards to my personal life. I have always gone to college away from home and being at home for the first semester was a hard adjustment. I was accustom to only focusing on my college course work without having to deal with the reality of my home life. I had a difficult time balancing the stress from my home life and college work. I always had the support system of my mother and stepfather but during the beginning of the semester my parents separated. It was hard to deal with not having the support system of both my parents. I felt as if I had to be strong for my mother and pick up the responsibilities of my stepfather. The new responsibilities made

I, Flora Ajayi, was dismissed from the Nursing program at The College of New Jersey due to my performance in Principles of Microbiology (BIO 144) and Anatomy & Physiology II (BIO 142 ), which are major Nursing prerequisites. I take responsibility for my academic progressions and understand the consequences and rewards of the Academic realm. The study habits that allowed me to flourish in high school, for example, studying class notes and reviewing a week before the exam, simply did not work in college. This forced me into a state of panic, which led me not to do well in both science classes. Studying effectively in college is different than studying in high school due to the rigor of the course and my attempt to process on a higher academic level. My inability to succeed in the sciences during my spring semester, despite my early success, has allowed for both personal growth and self-reflection while repeating BIO 144 and BIO 142.

In 2002, after many doubts and lack of confidence in myself, I somehow mustered enough energy to enroll in nursing

Starting the entry-level nursing program has caused a mix of emotions in me to arise. Although I am nervous as to what obstacles lie ahead, beginning this journey is also exciting. Being that this is an entirely new experience for me, there are fears, goals, and barriers that keep crossing my mind. In the first 2 weeks nursing school has, for the most part, gone how I expected it too, from the amount of studying I do, to the level of difficulty I excepted in each class. However, from the numerous things I’ve heard about nursing school, I didn’t expect every one of my peers and professors to be so helpful, and that is refreshing.

Teaching requires creating a classroom where all students are able to participate in the learning. Chapter 1 discusses the importance language, expectations, and integration. Chapter 1 introduces the topic of multicultural teaching.

Over the course of this semester, I have learned such an array of important matters and aspects of nursing that will help my nursing career. Among these topics were learning how to prepare for the NCLEX, learning how to manage stress and provide self-care, learning how to be open-minded and realize one’s privileges, learning about the definition of nursing as well as nursing theories, and learning about a plethora of options in the nursing field. Through discussing and thinking about these matters, I feel as though I have become a totally different person than I was at the beginning of the semester.

Most of my direct experience working with curriculum is as an public elementary school teacher. I prided myself for many years in aligning the state curriculum frameworks and objectives with the instruction going on in my classroom, and received praise from administrators for sticking to the “playbook”. As time went on, though, I realized that my mixed ability classes were simply not performing up to my personal expectations. I began to create flexible groups for math and language arts, and differentiate instruction based on group needs and student interests. I saw significant improvements in student engagement, behavior and overall achievement.

Before entering the Lehman College Nursing program., my motives for becoming a nurse wasn’t always been as set in place as they are now. Knowing full well that my decision to enter the nursing field was one I was not entirely certain of, I decided to embark on the journey nonetheless. During my first year of study at Lehman College I was kept very busy trying to juggle all of my courses and at the same time decide if this was indeed the program for me. When I entered the Lehman College nursing program, after getting to know my teachers, their expectations of me, as well as starting into the clinical experience, I discovered that I seemed to fit in very well into the program. Not only was I doing well in the academic aspect of the nursing program

Although I enjoyed the novel Lord of the Flies, I don’t completely agree with the author’s sentiment that if left along, people would grow to become brutish, selfish, and unruly. And although I do believe that human beings need some sort of social structure or guidelines because we are social animals, I whole heartedly believe that human are basically good and that if let to develop in a nurturing environment, we would grow into self-responsible and noble creatures. I believe that acts such as selfishness are definitely learned behaviors. Therefore, I think as my approach to classroom management, I would adopt the approach of a “nurturing” supporter. I believe the role of teacher is someone

My mind is still processing all of the ideas and challenges presented by George Couros during our most recent institute day this past Friday. After this day of professional development, I feel revitalized, encouraged, and motivated to stretch my teaching muscles and rethink how I incite learning in my classroom. Technology has opened a world of opportunity for us as learners, but as Uncle Ben quips in Spiderman, "With great power comes great responsible."

After careful deliberation, I have determined it is necessary to begin the initial steps of a nursing program that carries multiple university through what appears to be a two-year cycle of a severe intensive medical study.

Once again, my student teaching time has given me new challenges that I had not encountered to this point. As students have become more comfortable with me as their teacher, their behavior has slightly changed and is no longer the quiet, hesitant students that I had started with. It is nice to have them now willing to participate but they are beginning to blurt out answers and not properly raise their hands. It is these minor things that they are starting to neglect to do and causing slight problems with classroom management. Even though these problems do occasionally bubble up it provides me with the chance to use some of my classroom management skills that I have not been able to work on.

According to Jackie Kay there are many different ways people write, it is not a set structure in which everyone follows: “There is no “correct” method. The right method is one that works for the person, and produces the goods” (2010). Reading through many texts, it is clearly shown throughout that it is highly important to have the connection between understanding the many different contexts behind the writing to teaching it in the classroom. Throughout schooling there has always been a set writing structure teachers follow to instruct children on how to write, but without knowledge of the social and cultural context behind the writing teachers are just teaching children how to write words in English instead of writing with meaning. Writing

The first semester of nursing school began by taking classes such as Nutrition, Pathophysiology, Pharmacology, Therapeutic Communication, and Health Assessment. The act of taking 5 classes under a normal class load can seem like a daunting task but taking classes that require as much of a large amount of time studying as theses seem nearly impossible to overcome. Being that for a large majority of prior classes studying for test and practicals were nearly unnecessary this made this semester that much more difficult because not only did the new material need to be learned but also the ability to actually study and do so correctly had to be acquired. This item alone posed to