As I enter the classroom for the first time every semester, I usually introduce myself to my new students. I pay attention to their body language and try to establish eye contact then, of course, I ask them to introduce themselves: I am particularly interested in knowing their name, age, hobbies but most importantly what difficulties they encounter in learning English. I listen carefully to their short presentations. My diagnostic is not only aimed at evaluating their linguistic skills but also, and just as importantly, focused on their personality.
In my experience as a teacher, I have found that there is always a reason behind every peculiar student behavior in class. For instance, in almost every class I have taught, there was at least one student who would refuse to utter a word or participate in class during the beginning of the semester. Unfortunately, a lot of teachers tend to label such students as ‘lazy’ or ‘strange’ before even knowing their story or trying to understand the reasons behind their introversion. My keen understanding that each student is unique, and that sometimes, a teacher must open his heart and lend a helping hand to a student who cannot articulate what is going on in his/her life at the time came from personal experience.
In fact, during my freshman year, I have developed a sudden but acute social anxiety disorder. I was 17 when I started my undergraduate studies at the University of Casablanca in Morocco. Moving to a big city, being away from my family for the first time in my life and other financial and personal factors have contributed to a classroom phobia that was intense and crippling especially when the classes involved students reading out loud or engaging their classmates. I did not have any immediate solution. Informing my parents about my difficulties was not ideal as I felt embarrassed if not ashamed by this situation. The fact that my university did not offer any counseling or coaching service did not help either. I felt I was all by myself struggling to overcome a situation that impeded my progress and hindered my potential. Nonetheless, I managed to graduate with a B.A in English, and I ranked third of my cohort.
In September 2002, I moved to France to pursue
Social anxiety is something I have always had although I did not always know what it was. I thought it was only something that those living under a rock and had never seen people had. I now know that anyone can have it. When I was a little kid, people would tell me what beautiful features I have and I would be so shy and self-conscious that I would hide behind my parents. My parents thought I was just shy but that was only part of it. I have failed many times and wasted many opportunities to expose myself to my anxiety and maybe even overcome it. Although I have always had social anxiety it only escalates the older I get. There was a time where I did not want to face my fears. I was told by not only my mom but many others that I would become agoraphobic. I never tried to get better. Ignoring “the monster” as I call
Walking through the halls, I caught myself looking at other students to see if they were looking at me. I had no confidence in who I was, and didn’t like the person I perceived myself to be. Social anxiety affected every aspect of my life.
This movie, The Classroom, which was very interesting to watch, discusses all that goes on in the school system, the good and the bad. But it also shows how things at home can affect the way the student acts during the school day. This movie definitely makes you look at students that act out differently, instead of punishing them maybe we should all look deeper into the issue and find a way for the student to thrive and use school as an outlet.
To begin with, social anxiety is an immense component in the lives of students that is often overlooked.
Today, December 9, 2017, the date of my first ever final exam in a, full semester, college class. This marks a very exciting but stressful time for me.
When I first signed up for this class I didn’t know what to expect. But after two classes, I realized it was a class to discuss and interpret curriculum from a deeper and substantial stand point. Outside of simply teaching a lesson, what is the purpose of the lesson? How can you make the lesson relevant to students lives or real world situations? These are abstract thoughts each teacher should have to design curriculum that students not only understand but increases engagement, and participation within class. This will only enhance pedagogy of the content as well as how students absorb it.
I believe that the first week of school is one the most important weeks of the entire school year. As teachers, we lay the foundation for the coming year—we establish classroom rules and routines, we set goals and expectations, and most importantly, we start to build relationships with our students. As stated by James Corner, a child psychology professor at Yale, “No significant learning can occur without a significant relationship.” and it is during this first week that we start to build that relationship (Wormeli 2016). One of the simplest and yet crucial parts of this process is learning names. Learning a student’s name shows that we acknowledge them and that their names are worth remembering, setting the groundwork for the emotional connection that is critical for effective learning (Wormeli, 2016). My preferred way to learn names is to associate a student with an interesting fact about them. For me, this made them more memorable as I had more than just a face to connect a name to. I used this method quite
The intention of this paper is to provide a critical reflection on my learning experience within the subject Designing, Implementing and Improving Processes. Changes do not happen all of a sudden. Therefore the reflective view of various activities within the subject is going to be discussed. These activities throughout the 12 week program include involvement in various discussion forums, group activities, specific assignments aimed on business process management, business performance attributes and metrics, benchmarking and purpose of lean production. Furthermore, this reflection will provide an overview of the approach highlighting that it does not matter what type of activity is required to do because the most
Teaching is not just a job that I perform because I expect a reward at the end of each month; it is my passion and I feel extremely satisfied with every successful lesson. I like to help the society, and teaching gives me a great opportunity to do so. I am passionate about educating my students, so I work with them and motivate them to lead them to find inspiration in learning. I use different strategies to engage them and share with them the knowledge.
Today, I came prepared to teach my lesson as I was supposed to but times got switched up and plans got changed. In some ways I'm glad this happened because it taught me an important lesson of being flexible. As a teacher, things aren't always going to go smoothly and on track; there are always mix-ups along the way and learning how to cope with those are imperative. Although I didn't have a chance to teach today, I conducted morning meeting and read some of the book “Crenshaw” to the class. After, the class and I walked down to the computer room for coding. They just started creating different objects that preform different functions. For example, students chose between a bee, earthquake, dumpster, or car to create and make moveable. I
To start off, one of my favorite methods for building background is the is the “Insert Method” and the other one that I really would like to utilize is the “Signal Words”. Method. Both of these methods help students learn about new content and how the content is used in the correct context. In any event, I believe both of these methods will be adaptable to my hypothetical classroom teaching style.
This fall semester of Modern III has been challenging, but also very rewarding for myself. Pushing through this obstacle has allowed me to find and create a new movement vocabulary. Stated in my letter at the beginning the semester, two of my main goals for this class was to focus on my breath and to regain strength in my right leg. I worked outside and in the classroom to gain strength as well as focusing on the movement phrases finding the inhale and exhale. At midterms, I felt a huge difference focusing on these goals than I did when I started in August. However, I wanted to keep pushing myself after midterms so that I could continually to improve.
This chapter connects to my neuroscience course I took during my undergrad. In my neuroscience course, I learned about the different sensorimotor problems that are found in children with CP such as abnormal tone, atypical movements, poor sensory processing, muscle weakness and poor muscle co-activation etc. Also, I learned that CP could be classified by the location of the lesion in the CNS and by its distribution of abnormal tone in the trunks and extremities. For example, involvement of one extremity is referred monoplegia, upper and lower extremities on one side of the body as hemiplegia, both lower extremities as paraplegia, all limbs as quadriplegia, and all limbs and head/neck as tetraplegia. Moreover, I learned that children with CP have various problems with speech and language such as decreased speech production, poor articulation, and decreased speech intelligibility.
Every single teacher working at a school must possess certain attributes, so that he/she is able to help the students needed. Teachers do play a big role in the student’s life, as they are considered to be the window through which students will see their future. There might be students that don’t have anyone that inspires them to become a professional. This means that as teachers we should be fine and positive role model to them. Many people that have gotten the opportunity to know me closer would always tell me that I am a person in which they can trust and one that will be there to listen to their problems. However, Wednesday class made me reflect that I am not quite a good listener because many times when people have come to share their problems. While, they are talking I would comment by telling them if you continue doing that you are going to have consequences. Instead of only listening to them I would do both listen and comment. Therefore, I must learn to listen when someone is sharing his/ he problems to me in order to be able to help my students. My grandfather would always tell me, “Rosi God gave us two ears with a purpose which is that we should listen double and we have one mouth since we should talk half”. Of course, this applies when someone have problems we should listen more to them rather making judgments.
The purpose of this literature review is to investigate the difficulties a social phobic student has regarding academic progress.