Narrative Program Class At Memorial Elementary School

At this point in my life I find myself in an interesting predicament regarding my attitudes toward reading and writing; more so towards reading. Years ago I used to love reading books for pleasure but nowadays I find myself reading things that little to no effort to digest. This includes the very basic posts on facebook expressing one’s opinion on something or articles and threads on reddit discussing topics I find intriguing. Perhaps it’s the severe senioritis that has overcome me as I enter my last semester at Chapman University. As I’ve gotten lazier I can see it start to reflect in my everyday life. Deep down I still love to read but I rarely find myself getting truly invested into the action unless it relates to something I am very

I never thought the day would come where I’d have to admit to myself I had an addiction. The hardest part was to except the fact I was an addict of painkillers and admitting it to my family so that I could get the help and support needed to get clean. The road leading to my addiction started with the factors of my childhood, always trying to fit in and not being supported emotionally from my parents. Having a child at the age of sixteen was the second factor, which made me grow up faster than a normal child at my age would have had to. Living the life of an addict was a struggle everyday but, getting help was the hardest part of it all. I’ll live with this disease for the rest of my life because recovery is a

Writing has always been my most difficult part of English. Reading, on the other hand, is something I could do all day; however, with writing, I grimace just thinking about it. It was not that I did not have anything to say, because I actually have quite a bit to say. I just could never figure out how to phrase what I had to say in just right way on the page. My mom taught me to read and write at a young age. After that, I would devour any book that I could get my hands on. However, I have had trouble with writing since it became more than just my alphabet and numbers.

For my Field Experience I chose to observe at Krahn Elementary which is a part of Klein Independent School District. After my approval, I was assigned to four teachers and their classrooms. I observed at Krahn Elementary on six Tuesdays between 15 September 2015 and 27 October 2015, and more or less followed the schedule that was given to me by the Assistant Principal Ms. Shannon Strole. From 8:30 am to 9:15 am I observed Ms. Judy Burkes, who is a third grade Math and Science teacher. Her classroom is comprised of twenty students which range from average to below average learners and a student with ADHD and another with autism. For most part of my observation, M. Burkes had been working with her students on fractions and multiple digits addition and subtraction. From 9:15 am to 10:30 am I observed Ms. Lisa Parker who is a Math co-teacher and resource teacher at Krahn Elementary for grades K-5. During my assigned time, Ms. Parker usually joined Mr. Duru’s fifth grade class of twenty three students as a co-teacher and when required would pull out a group of six students after initial instructions from Mr. Duru and would teach them the concepts separately at a slower pace. This particular group of students with special needs was mostly seen to be focusing more and more on mathematical word problems. These students were students with Learning disabilities, behavioral issues and one of them was a student with ADHD. From 10:30 am to 11:15, I was with Ms. Janice Bluhms, who is a

I’m going to start by saying we have some very good educators at Durant Public School that, make sure we are well prepared for college. Here at Durant Public School have been wonderful, exciteful, and delightful, I completed ninth, tenth, and eleventh grade here at Durant Public School. I’m currently attending the twelfth grade. Now I’m about giving you a brief summary of my experience at Durant Public School.

The first time that Sean and I met was in the 7th grade at Washington Middle School. Sean was the new kid at school at the time, and when you're the new kid the teacher introduces you to the entire class. The teacher also wanted someone to give Sean a tour of the school, so she wanted to see who already knew him. I didn't know him yet, but when she asked who did I yelled out "I do!" She turned to Sean and asked if he knew me, he said yes even though he knew he didn't. As I was giving him a tour of the school he asked if I actually knew him. I told him no, I just wanted to get out of class. And that was the beginning to our

I open the door to the school hallway. Inside I hear the chatter of many students at once. There were dozens of people in the area, and I was slightly overwhelmed. This place I have entered is what I wold come to know as Quest Middle School, one of the most stressful, but interesting two years I have had in a long time.

I managed to fail a few of my test due to failing to study the day before. My teacher where outraged and kept me for tutoring to try and bring my grades up. That was a tough time for me back then since I was always bullied at school. I was so ashamed in myself that set a goal to get commended in one of my 5th grade STAAR test. I began to focus more on subjects I was most confused in such as math. I came to every day tutoring was held, and I managed to arrive early in the morning to work on homework that was due late. Weeks and weeks of doing homework and sleep deprivation only managed to get me to a 70-82 in the weekly tests given during the time. I soon began

Going all the way back to Elementary school, I had a crazy story that happened around the 4th grade. I was at recess and we had a lot of room to play on during recess. There were many trees around the area. Me being a kid at the time I liked to play with sticks and there were many sticks on the ground. So for me liking sticks I picked one up and started to wave it around all my friends. All of a sudden one of the lunch ladies starts running down, blowing her whistle to stop me from waving the stick around. The lunch lady then took me up to be put on the wall. The wall is where the kids who got in trouble for something sit on there and can’t play for a period of time. I did not play for the rest of recess. After that, my class and I went back

Health care is dynamic and constantly in a state of change. In order to prepare competent nurses who are ready to deal with that change, nursing education must be willing and able to adjust the way that knowledge is taught. Many educators are moving away from content heavy lectures and adopting new teaching and learning strategies to address various learning needs. Narrative pedagogy is an emerging strategy that has the potential to increase learning in nursing education.

St. Catherine Catholic school is located on 30 Roanoke Road, ON, M3A 1E9. Phone number: 416-393-5316. Fax number: 416-393-5146. School website: http://stcatherine.tcdsb.org

Atwood Learning Center in Rockford is 334 acres long. Most of their land is filled with habitats for wild animals. The other part of their land is filled with trails. When I went to Atwood, we went on a night hike. I was with Deer Group because, well, I was a deer. I wasn’t paying attention too well to what we were going to do because I was tired and didn’t know we were just hiking and weren’t going to a destination. Although, we sort of did. We stopped somewhere and our group leader grabbed an object out of his backpack and went behind everyone saying “What does the object feel like?” Or, “What does it smell like?”

“Is is this Mrs. Rivers?” I asked “There is a new student coming to school in the Fall and I need the nicest former 4th graders to give him a tour this summer.” I explained.

I had fun in today’s circle. I thought it was very creative what Sarah and Kenijah had come up with for their day. I liked the meditation technique used. Although I cannot recall what it was called it was very vibrant. I like how Sarah had the guitar and she played a soothing song on it while we mediated. I also liked how the check in was. I also enjoyed the fact that there was a center piece. The candle idea was very unique. If were to grade their performance on the meditation it would have been a 100%. While we were on the discussion questions I noticed we had skipped number three. I cannot recall if it was intentional or not but I would have loved to answer it. The question was “Do you believe that these exercises can help improve

As a teacher, I am always eager to spread my wings and engage my students with different types of activities. While I was a kindergarten teacher, I was sometimes asking to my students what sort of activities they wanted to do based on subject of the day. Then, I was creating a playful classroom activity. Unfortunately, I am not able to teach a lesson with that much a free spirit in higher education level, however it does not mean, I do not bear in mind the students’ interest to help them to construct their own knowledge. I organize my lesson plan based on the students’ interests. In this piece, I will going to depict one of my classes and provide detailed example from one of the class I recently facilitated “How children learn: mind and brain”.