I mentioned previously how I was conducting a little bit of an experiment on my own in my classrooms. Comparing the use of notecards in the spring to the fall when they were not required. Hopefully at the end of the year I will be able to see if anyone actually improved his or her scores by using this study method. I did not consider writing down my results in order to supplement the data. I was simply going to draw my own conclusions and percentages regarding the increase in material retainment. The writing part just didn’t occur to me to be necessary. Reading this chapter really broke it down in terms of organization and it was even motivational. It had me pondering, what if I actually did put the results in writing. Thinking of it in …show more content…
The time educators spend to ponder their thoughts and write them down seems to be nothing. I know when I first started teaching I thought, great I will have time to do everything! I was very wrong, all the time that I spend lesson planning, grading papers and brainstorming for great lab ideas takes up a lot of time. Teaching can be exhausting and making the time to write down snippets of daily thoughts can be intimidating when at the end of a long day all you want to do is go home. But making the time a little bit here and there can really make the difference in educational strategies for students. I really like using mnemonics in order to stimulate long-term memory retainment. Considering I do teach advanced science electives, students are learning a new language. They really enjoy seeing the little tricks I come up with in order to remember information. I’ve heard them time and time again offer some of their own ideas on remembering the information. I’ve asked them on numerous occasions if they like that I come up with these little tricks to help them. The majority has responded that the mnemonic devices I use really does stimulate long-term memory retainment for them. The information from a classroom that is documented by the educator can be very valuable. It’s a personal view from a biased standpoint that has great information to offer. The difference between objectivity and subjectivity
With today’s changing world and the economy the way it is, it is not uncommon for people of all ages to enter the college setting. In fact, two-thirds of students entering the college setting are classified non-traditional (Brown, 2007). Bill (2003) found that there was an 11% increase of non-traditional student enrollment from 1991-1998 displaying 35% in 91 and 46% in 1998. These numbers have since increased according to Jacobson & Harris (2008) showing that half to 75% of undergraduates consist of the non-traditional student sitting the reasons for reentering the college setting to be economic. What exactly defines a non-traditional student and what services may they need in comparison to the traditional student.
1. Explain what functions racial beliefs serve for the dominant group according to the functionalist perspective. Conversely, explain what dysfunctions to society are caused by prejudice and discrimination.
“Inclusion, not exclusion, is the key to survival.” What does this mean? To say the least, the definition is clearly stated in The Power of One, as well as Richard Wright’s Black Boy. Actually, both these works resemble each other by both having many types of isolation. Initially, P.K. in The Power of One and Richard in Black Boy are isolated by members of their family. Subsequently, they are both excluded by society because of their backgrounds. Ultimately, they are excluded within their own races because of their actions throughout their stories.
I have gained the knowledge of consequences and incentives that are effective and also ineffective to use. By gaining this knowledge I know that during my years to come of teaching I will be able to use effective consequences and incentives for my class. I have obtained the skill of keeping an organized room, through learning how to setup the room in such a way that will benefit student learning and my teaching. The text book used and classroom lectures that I brought into this artifact opened my eyes to many details that I will bring to my elementary class. What I found to be the most useful of completing this artifact was the first part in figuring out my philosophy of classroom management, I felt that this was useful because I had to think of what a good teacher was and why I will make a good teacher and how classroom management will play a role in me becoming a good
Read the article Diagnosis Coding and Medical Necessity: Rules and Reimbursement by Janis Cogley located on the AHIMA Body of Knowledge (BOK) at http://www.ahima.org.
The encoding hypothesis says that writing helps to encode the information better. The external-storage hypothesis suggests that by writing down the information is helpful because you can review it later, therefore increasing retention. Even though, there has been a mix of results in these hypotheses it is certain to say that the use of these two hypotheses together can help improve the academic performance. Other research suggests that note taking can be generative (in our own words) and non-generative (word for word). Verbatim note taking tends to lower our cognitive process. The deeper the information is processed and encoded the better the comprehension and retention of the information and better it is for encoding. The research has shown that people who take verbatim notes show a lower academic performance than those who use non-verbatim notes.
Good time management is essential to handle a heavy workload without excessive stress. For a manager, time management helps reduce long-term stress by giving the manager direction when he or she has too much work to do. The manager will then, have the control of how tasks will be completed at work. In addition, having control allows managers to increase their productivity.
Getting organized to write a paper is the worst thing ever; the idea charts, the constant erasing, getting up repeatedly to sharpen my pencil. I remember writing this particular paper; I had just gotten to school and put my bag in my cubby hole. The first thing out of Mr. Leisch’s mouth (my teacher at the time) was, “today we are going to write for the entire day, we are falling behind in this subject compared to the other three classes and we need to practice.” As the rest of my peers groaned and bellyached I was thrilled, “today will be the day I write a six!” I told myself. As my teacher gave us our assignment and I
But, actually writing something down instead of typing it, has been proven to be more helpful. In one study, psychologists found that students learned more and understood what
For this assignment, I had the pleasure of working with the same student I worked with for the first assignment. My student is in second grade and I well be referring to her as J.R. While working with J.R., I assessed her using four different assessments and I really got to understand her as a learner. This assignment was different from the first assignment because I was able to dig deeper into her literacy knowledge and I was able to identify many of her strengths and areas of need. I feel like I understand J.R. a lot better because I now know about her personally and educationally.
The warm sunshine that was streaming through the classroom window was doing nothing to help my concentration as I sat in class trying to pay attention. The teacher’s monotone voice droning on about some dead men who fought in a battle hundreds of years ago was slowly putting me to sleep.
Strong leadership is critical to an organizations success. Leaders need to be honest, trustworthy, respected, and good communicators (Montana & Mitchell, 2005, p. 83). Effective communication is necessary to eliminate confusion. Think how the receiver will interpret the message that you are saying or writing. Effective communication can only occur when the receiver of the message understands what the sender is intending to say.
Inaash (a Lebanese non-profit organization that supports the Palestinian refugees) has created jobs for thousands women in camps through the production of Palestinian embroidery products. Although the organization had made significant achievements—from supporting refugees to offering medical help to elderly and sponsoring children’s education—major changes in its environment have resulted to diminishing sales and increased dependence on donations. As a result, Inaash’s
If I have to provide only a yes or no answer, I would have to say no. The scenario is too vague to confirm a, “yes” answer. Or preferably I would like to conclude that possibly the magazine would be relevant. Here is my reasoning; the scenario states that there is a magazine that was found in the backseat of the car driven by Danielle. Thus, if I was the investigator on scene and in doing a thorough job of investigating the accident scene, I would look over everything top to bottom inside and out of the car. At first I would note it and then secure the magazine as evidence possibly taking precautions to look and see what was in the bag in the first place.
During my student teaching experience and my first year of teaching, I noticed that many students struggled to coherently write about their results or conclusions at the end of a lab. Therefore, during my second year of teaching, to help my students strengthen their writing skills, I decided to incorporate a few lessons on the procedures of writing a lab report. Once we had covered the essential parts of the “Scientific Method,” we segwayed into discussing the importance of lab reports in the real-world. We talked about how scientists use them to communicate results, as well as discussed how writing them would develop and sharpen my student’s scientific inquiry skills and scientific thinking. Initially, writing a lab report is a very