Positive Education Reflection

The article Environments That Inspire complied by Susan Friedman was a fantastic piece. I learned that having a stick building area for children will encourage children to explore their imagination and create something for either dramatic play or make different kinds of structures. Another thing I have learned was how important it can be to have low tables and chair for toddlers. Allowing the children to sit in these chairs where their feet can rest on the floor give them a feeling of independence. Lastly, something that I learned and found quite interesting was having the All About Me Books. The child and parent can work together to create these and then bring them to class. The books celebrate each child’s uniqueness, encourage literacy,

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

In the module for week two there were several ideas that you can implement in your classroom. For instance you could try the walk and talk discussion strategy. This strategy simply means that the students read a selected piece of literature and have a small-group discussion about teacher-created topics posted around the room. The resources/idea for this strategy includes identifying main ideas and develop 4-5 questions pertaining to the ideas. Afterword’s you type up questions to be printed out and placed around the room. You then should secure large sheets of butcher paper or whiteboard space for the students to write down the groups’ ideas, once this task is completed make sure you have supplied each group with dry erase or regular felt tip pens.

Most of my teaching experiences consist of teaching children from ages 3 to 8 at numerous summer camps during my high school years. Many things I have taught were based on general knowledge, such as teaching children how to play soccer and how to make a stuffed animal with an old pair of socks. Such topics never required a thorough background research or a specific knowledge on children’s development. Yet, my active interactions and attention were always in need considering the children’s age and the nature of the topics being taught. The two major obstacles I had to overcome—and sometimes, I am still struggling with—was to properly motivate and to discipline them. Through this course, I have learned different methods of motivating students

I will add a strategy to the lesson to promote learning. I will add questioning to the group work and the Power Point activities to promote higher level thinking skills. This will allow students to think about their answer and explain why they think it is correct. They will also be able to ask one another and the teacher questions to clarify information.

Agreeing with Joseph Schwab the thoughts are very comprehensive. He would like to bring several parts of the educational field of study into an overall view, rather than limiting to a particular speciality or theory or a body of research. The thoughts are very self-motivated and has reached new forms, adapting the older ones. Arguing against him would not be feasible as the purpose should be to prepare a curriculum which would be relevant for potential careers.

Another thing that was helpful was how to motivate students. The way the teacher motivate students

I like how Kida was saying to use more of our creative side of our brain and to use our other knowledge from a different class and use it to a certain problem because it could solve it. Also I like when we learned about the “hot hand” theory. I found it interesting how they used this theory in a basketball context, that really the person with the hot hand really doesn’t have the hot hand he just is getting more shots than the other players on the court. But I feel like this unit could have be improved that if we discussed the units slower. Instead of doing a theory a day, keep going over a bigger theory for more than a day and smaller ones for just a

When I began teaching I can honestly say I thought teaching was all about the teacher delivering content to the students. I quickly learned, through some amazing peers, that if i was going home tired and the students were not, then I did not do my job that day. My job, I learned, was to give students the tools to succeed no matter who or what gave them a challenge. I agree with Chris Lehmann as he spoke about building a relationship with the students before any inquiry could happen. Mr. Lenhmann remarked that it has to go beyond teachers caring about kids, and they had to care for kids. I believe that when your students know you truly care about them personally and are invested in their life, then it frees them up to be able to learn to their fullest potential. Another remark from Mr. Lenhamm that resonated with me was his mention of technology

During the 2016-2017 school year, I engaged in an Educational Leadership Internship. The journey to gain an Administrator I Certificate began in 2015. My personal belief is that the world can only change one child at a time. Therefore, I was a classroom educator for 12 years. In those years, I found educating 3rd and 4th grade students to be extremely fulfilling. For 3 years I have been a small group intervention teacher focusing on mathematics with approximately 60 students. A part of my professional practice is to reflect at the end of each school day and at the completion of each school year. At the end of the 2014-2015 school year, I asked myself, “If I could inspire 30 children as a teacher per year, 60 students as an intervention specialist, how many could I reach as an administrator?” That question has led me to this insightful and thought provoking internship.

I’ve been able to connect my civic engagement work with our discussions in prosem mostly through our conversations about education and the intersection of immigration and education. All of the kids I worked with at Moder Patshala were either immigrants themselves, or were the children of newly arrived immigrants, and with that, they were low income and/or first-generation students in the US. This highly overlaps with the presentations we did on education: one intersecting with low income students and the other with English language learners. From these discussions, I’ve been able to develop how to better support the students I worked with who were still learning English. The conversations around certain classroom situations and how you should react were really interesting and got me thinking about my strategies for supporting the students I worked with, which was beneficial for my work, the student’s education, and our relationship. A lot of times when there is a language barrier, a student will get very frustrated and I was able to think critically about how to more visibility show my patience and encourage the student through the process. In terms of FGLI students, I had never really thought about the importance in verbalizing that I was a FGLI student too. I had always tried to not mention the fact I was from Penn, because I didn’t want there to be this power dynamic between the student and I and also between me and the tutors from other schools. But I learned that

From reading the second set of readings there were a few topics that stood out the most to me. The topics include the role of the government in education and the economics of education. I was really surprised from the readings to find new information and to discover that there is not a lot of research conducted in the field of education. Most of the findings I agreed with the authors but some of the findings I’m in disagreement.

A second way to intrinsically motivate students is to “understand the children” (Specific Classroom Management Methods). Originality and creativity should be encouraged in all students. Make a point to give students opportunities to express themselves in different ways. Each child is unique and self-expression is a great way to learn about each and every student. When starting the year, “Knowing what background your students bring to class and starting the course at an appropriate level can increase a students success and…positive feelings they have about your

“Ideological Domain- The media, arts, religion, and education represent institutions whose primary purpose is ideological - producing and distributing ideas and knowledge about society and it’s people - why society is organized the what it is what people need to know in order to function in society” (Webb, pg 12)

During the stages of my development, I did not always understand why my parents forced me to follow the laws that they had put in place. Like, why should I really cut the lawn? Why was school really so important? Why can not I put candies in my oat bowl?