Reflection In Education

The aim of this assignment is to give a reflective account on group presentation and the peer assessment process as well as the development of a personal action plan. It would involve using ‘The What? Model of Structured Reflection’ (Driscoll 2007) to analyse the experience of using a group designed assessment tool to assess my peers and the experience of being peer assessed. Additionally, experience of completing a group presentation would be reflected upon. A personal action plan which identifies areas for personal development and the designed assessment tool is attached as appendix 1 and 2 respectively.

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.

In examining twelve high-impact nonprofits, Heather McLeod Grand and Leslie Crutchfield found six practices most of the organizations had in common that paved their road towards making a successful systematic change (Grant, 2007). The biggest finding was how these nonprofits mobilized every sector of society outside of their organization’s boundaries, such as the government, for-profit businesses, and the public in addition to managing

There is an increasing demand for more and better evaluation as evaluation makes nonprofits more effective and responsive. This refers to the tendency that aiming at increasing nonprofit accountability, as “the demand for both legal and moral accountability has been growing significant” (Murray 434). However, the formal evaluation at the whole organization level is complex and costly. In the real world, the evaluation process is hard to be rational and objective, but always tends to be subjective and political. On the one hand, in each stage of the evaluation process, problems will occur. “Politics is inevitable in evaluation because there is so much room for subjectivity that differences can easily arise between the parties involved” (Murrey

The group continues to succeed at their mission, but various nonprofit leaders question their methods. They are calling for change. A change in way they evaluate charity finances and to spread the message that charities can suffer if they don’t spend enough on overhead costs. Critics suggest that the organization is steering donors in the wrong direction. In response Dugan asks, “What is the best way for individuals who don’t have a sophisticated understanding of nonprofit operations to select charities? In the absence of third-party evaluators, how can they be sure they are giving to a sound organization?” Critics recommend that more emphasis should be put on how mow much of an impact the nonprofit has made in its’ mission. Unfortunately, very few charities document impact in a methodical way. It is also costly to hire a third-party for

When something goes wrong or something unexpected happens during a lesson or activity, we ask ourselves questions such as, could I have done something to avoid it? These experiences usually make us grow and we learn from experience, and we will be better prepared to face the situation if it happened again. This introspection is generally called “reflection”, and all professionals have adopted it in order to improve their practice, but for educators reflection involves “critical thinking” about past experiences or current experiences that occur or are occurring in classroom settings and looking at them in a positive light on how to make improvements for their teaching

When we started this eight week course about differentiation I already had a lot of background information on this subject. I did learn a few things about how to help my colleagues jump on the bandwagon of differentiation. By helping my fellow teachers change their mindset towards planning with differentiation in mind I am making a positive difference in my students’ educational experience. When differentiation is used properly students are taught lessons in ways that are both meaningful and specific to the students’ educational needs. Differentiation is a great tool that teachers can use to help decrease the educational gap between students skills and the grade-level standards that they should be meeting.

In the opening chapters of my dissertation, I acknowledge the invaluable contribution of my mentors: my committee chair Jelena Subotic and committee members Charles Hankla and Andrew Wedeman. What made my mentors exemplary teachers was their devotion to their students and to their profession. In and outside the classroom my mentors helped me develop my ability to assess, create, and articulate ideas and think independently, which propelled my academic growth. They also developed strong curriculums with the knowledge to support it, set high academic standards, and built trust among their students. My mentors set an exceptional model for me to follow and thus shaped my pedagogical philosophy, which involves teaching my students to think independently, to respect intellectual diversity, and always be open to learn, while I uphold high academic standards in the classroom, never stop learning, and lead students by example.

Being a teacher requires you to be able to alter your lesson plans at any moment. There were several times during this lesson that I had to do this. The biggest in the moment change that I needed to make was when we were modeling how to give the survey. Mrs. Vavra had told me practicing giving the survey to our class should take ten to fifteen minutes. It ended up taking the whole math class time. I felt that I had to make sure that the students knew what they were doing before I sent them to survey another class. Since that took the whole time that pushed back the lesson that we were supposed to also learn that day. Using the interactive lessons that go along with the textbook they used worked well for the students to get some hands on practice with the material before I sent them back to their seats to work on their worksheet. Getting the students up and moving also helps. I also tried to vary my instructional strategies. I did this by having the students to view a PowerPoint with the information on it and watch a video to explain the graph instead of me teaching it. The review PowerPoint that I had planned didn’t work out the way that it had on my computer when I previewed it again before class. The PowerPoint was supposed to be all interactive and done on the Smartboard. Instead I had to sit on the computer and go from slide to slide. This caused me to have to be away from the students and not being able to make sure that they were staying on task. I was required to

In a prior life, I worked for a junior college. I started there shortly after Barbra and I were married and before Christopher, Caitlin and Matthew came along. I started out teaching – teaching classes in accounting, business and computers. During my time at the college, I held several administrative positions as well, including academic dean, financial aid officer and executive director.

think I went a little overboard with the information. As I reflect on my curriculum I thought about the fact that maybe I wasn’t being as realistic with the time I spend creating the curriculum. One aspect I pondered about was the time frame that is given to teachers so they can work on their curriculum. I assume it’s a little different than the time we have in a preschool setting. I presently teach two part day classes back to back which leaves little room for planning my curriculum. I think that in the higher grades teachers probably don’t have as much time as I spend on my curriculum for this course. As I reflect on this information I realize I have to set realistic and attainable timelines.

During Sequence 5, there were many experiences that shaped the perception of what the teaching profession entailed. The first would be the importance of supporting students’ literacy levels, no matter what subject or content area one might teach. It became evident while administering QRI tests at Sullivan that a majority of the students struggled with reading comprehension and were reading multiple grade levels below where they should be normally reading. Being one whose content is history, it became apparent that supporting my students’ literacy and comprehension skills was paramount to their success across their schooling experience. In addition, the profession of teaching entails supporting all students. The class that I worked with was composed of mostly ELL students and students with IEPs. Using best practices found in Hougen and Buehl are integral in differentiating and modeling for all students in the classroom. This is to ensure that you are meeting the needs of the students and to empower them to achieve their goals in life and prepare them for the real world.

Reflecting on my past educational studies, how has the decisions that I have made in the past impacted on my educational journey? This is one of many questions that I have regarding my education that I will be focusing on in this paper, whilst a reflecting on my key moments during my educational journey in connection to analysing them according to the 3 domains of education.

Every since the start of high school, I have been following news articles. News about economics, political matters, terrorist movements etc. and it has started to make me see things in a different light. I choose Education Inequality as my research topic because lately I have noticed how much school and education has made an impact on my life. Education has led me down an advanced track for all my classes, it has provided me with an amazing group of intelligent friends that push me to do excel in everything that I do, it has also shown me that I am privileged.

One aspect that I can personally relate to would be latent functions because it was something that helped me discover more about myself. I was able to find comfort in extracurricular activities and interacted with numerous fellow students. Because of extracurricular activities, I learned that I was not just an academic person, but I also have the skills in running, playing sports and singing. Extracurricular activities were something that just helped me learned to open myself up more to people and be open to learning new things.