Reflection On Life-Long Learning And Development

In chapter five, by Cris Tovani, “Why Am I Reading This” explains how educators need to establish a clear reading instructional plan. In order to accomplish understanding students need to concentrate on main ideas from the readings. Tovani explains that it is vital for teachers to model how students should hold their thinking or slow down their reading. Throughout the chapters she gives examples as question strategies, highlighting text, or summarizing key points. As this will benefit students in their reading assignment. Tovani also explains throughout the chapter that teachers should model thinking aloud. This strategy will benefit students on how to negotiate difficult text.

Facilitating a foundation in academic or philosophical pedagogy can help form a path for the educator, a path to better understanding teaching, education, learning and learners. Often, most of the programs designed for learners and the curriculum is often derived from theories. Understanding theories can help guide a teacher through their education journey. Sometimes, teachers may struggle with classroom organisation or implementing the curriculum in a considerate, all-encompassing and engaging way, especially if you are a CRT or Graduate Teacher - and often these concepts can help inspire and encourage teachers. To be an empowered teacher means your classroom and students will be empowered learners, and that is the best type of learning. There are many theories that have contributed to education as a body and has many of these theories help educational departments plan curriculums to benefit not only teachers but also all students. What makes for a great teacher is considering the characteristics of the local community as well involving students’ families’ in the school body. Influences that help shape a teacher’s identity can include…

1.1 Summarise key aspects of legislation, regulatory requirements and codes of practice relating to own role and responsibilities.

The Framework for Teaching by Charlotte Danielson has been developed through research as a guideline for current and future teacher’s professional responsibilities in and out of the classroom. Districts throughout the country are using this framework to assess and guide their teachers to build successful methods of planning and preparations, setting up the classroom environment, instruction and professional responsibilities. Each of these domains builds off of each other to form a successful learning environment. Domain 3 focuses more specifically on instruction using communication, discussions, engagement, assessments and flexibility.

When I first began teaching over twenty years ago, I do not believe I had a clear idea of what my vision of education was. I was hungry for knowledge myself and took every opportunity I could to attend professional development and implement new curriculum and instructional strategies. During the early part of my career as a teacher, I developed a

Another thing I have learned from this course is the proper way to produce an instructional writing. In this project, we were required to prepare a set of instruction for our reader. This assignment help me in learning how to maintain the reader’s attention. this is one of the key point we learned though out the course. This is a good key point to understand because it is important to be able to keep your reader’s attention so they can be able to follow the

A teacher is always an example, pacemaker and a paradigm for his students particularly for the whole society in general; therefore a teacher must be protected in the best way by following a code practice. For me being a teacher is absolutely a fantastic opportunity in teaching field which compel me to be an idol especially for students, therefore I must not discriminate or abuse (physical or mentally), respect them, having a course planning from before, and dress properly as a gentle man.

By completing this TASK you will have the necessary knowledge and skills required to complete your assignment. Use examples given to expand on your answer.

In Critical Pedagogy: Notes from the Real World, Joan Wink talks about her experience in teaching at Benson, Arizona. Wink goes on to explain her process in her shifting pedagogy when encountering her new classroom. Wink quickly realizes that she is now, too the learner, in this new setting and must adjust her lessons to fit the needs of the students in her classroom. Wink also begins to understand that although she thought she was prepared with everything she needs to know about teaching there are some practices that must be adjusted, unlearned, and relearned. For Wink, reading and writing became an important aspect in her classroom allowing the students in her classroom to choose what they want to learn and write about. Wink learned that it is important for students to have a safe space, choice, someone that responds to their writing, flexibility, humor, and most importantly to continue to read to improve writing.

In a narrative format I will provide a comprehensive summary of the concepts and presuppositional assumptions of the life course perspective including an overview of its main principles, strengths and weaknesses. I will give definition and all points need to be made of the life life course perspective.

The Life-Course Theory or the Life-Course Perspective is the study of people’s lives, social changes, and structural contexts (Mitchell, 2003). This concept directs the focus on the power connection between individuals and the factors around them. It is defined as "a sequence of socially defined events and roles that the individual enacts over time" (Mitchell, 2003). This concept defines family as a "collection of individuals with shared history who interact within ever-changing social contexts across ever increasing time and space" (Mitchell, 2003). Various concepts are included in the fundamental principles from this theory: socio-historical and geographical location; timing of lives; heterogeneity or variability; linked lives and social ties to other

Potential benefits or effects for learners of the specific strategy, taking account of individuals positions as employees and employers at various levels of the organisation.

The human lifespan concludes with the late adulthood phase, in which adults 65 and older experience transitions that interconnect with one’s physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development. Due to the uncertainty and variability of how long an individual can live for, there are disparities amid defining late adulthood. Contemporary researchers divided aging into three categories: young old (65-74), old old (75-84), and oldest old (85 and above) (Papalia & Martorell, 2014). Another method of classifying age is measuring one’s functional age, which refers to how well the individual can function physically in his/her environment (Papalia & Martorell, 2014). Brain deterioration can be a

Having believed in life long learner approach, every now and then I have learned from others at numerous instances. Before CELTA, teaching was just a mundane practice for me. I was very much an average teacher and barely try to link with any student. Throughout this whole learning process, I have enjoyed learning through edutainment, a blend of education and entertainment that enhance learning tremendously. The guidance and assistance given by my mentors are still working exquisitely; for certain it was a magnum opus. CELTA reformed my teaching practice; I am on the crest of a wave since then.

This whole class has been a journey that I have found myself in the midst of towards a greater discovery of who I am as a teacher and how best to improve as a future teacher. This final project, a class syllabus, has been no exception and indeed has been the culmination of a semester’s worth of reflection. I worked to create a syllabus that is not hypothetical, but an active and live project that I will use to guide student learning in the Spring semester.