What Are The Value Of Different Viewpoints

There are many different types of attachments that I have observed in the Magnolia classroom. Some are attachments to the children’s personal belongings and others are attachments to people, such as the teachers. Growing out of these attachments is good for the children’s social-emotional development.

I believe that education is the process of ongoing growth within an individual. This process begins at a young age, almost at birth. This individual is born with certain interests and powers that shape them. Through education these individual powers or interests are continuously shaped, forming new habits, ideas, feelings, and emotions. An individual will eventually be able to share their ideas, feelings, and emotions, and become a member with in the American society.

On the morning of September 29th, 2017, uncertainty, anxiety, and excitement were three of the best words to portray my emotions. I was uncertain of what my role within the classroom would be and how the students would receive my presence; I was anxious to commence this new experience and put my classroom knowledge to the test to further my education; But, most of all, I was excited to meet the students that would ultimately begin my long career in making a difference in kids’ lives through education.

Nick is a high school senior who spends the majority of his time preparing for tests. He plans to attend college at Ball State University. Nick believes that he will be successful with handling money when he moves out of his parents’ house because he just received a 100% on his math test. Throughout the last few months of high school, Nick’s teacher attempts to prepare him for the transformation from high school to college. His teacher informs him that studying for tests within high school may not have prepared him to face the physical world. Specifically, she informs Nick that studying in high school may be different or more difficult to handle due to specific situations that deal with money throughout life (Handling taxes, bank accounts, work, etc.). What type of learning is Nick’s teacher emphasizing?

The instructional setting I work within is set in a rural community, northeast of Indianapolis, IN. This community is made up of mostly farmers and factory workers, so the majority of the students are in the “free and reduced” system for tuition and lunches.

In the words Ivan Welton Fitzwater, “the future of the world is in my classroom today”. I cannot think of a more accurate nor humbling statement when it comes to teaching. As an educator, it is completely inevitable not to reach at least one student in your classroom. However, I believe that many do not realize how great of an impact our teachers make for our children daily. What many do not realize is that the teacher’s attitude about learning has a much more significant impression on now the child feels about it than anything else. I am a strong believer in doing what it takes to show a child the value and sheer enjoyment of learning. As a child growing up in the public-school system, I have witnessed encouraging and inspiring experiences with teachers as well as unpleasant. Now that I am older, seeing these same behavioral issues and patterns have really opened my eyes as to how much the teacher’s approach sets the tone for the upcoming lesson.

Roger’s responses to the lesson were very positive; he was interested and engaged at all times. Throughout all class, he was constantly involved by being asked to provide examples and participation in discussion. One of the lesson’s activities was brainstorming when students needed to resolve a conflict with someone. Roger was, at the beginning, a little exalted on his comments, but as the class activities progressed, his interactions improved. He was then given the task of resolving a hypothetical conflict between him and a classmate; students would exchange roles. The scenario: A classmate has asked Roger for the twentieth time to borrow a pen. Every time Roger lends him one, he does not get it back, so this time Roger would say no. The other student gets angry and starts to yell at Roger.

I have been part of the education system since the age of four. From Preschool to twelfth grade, a lot has changed throughout my education. I can assert that education has altered my of way of thinking, especially from elementary to now. Because of education my life has improved in all aspects.

1. Since I was in a middle school setting, I was given the opportunity to observe multiple classrooms which a variety of different students. In my first class, I noticed that most, if not all students were African American. The ratio was 22:1, where about 18 of them were boys. The second class I went to, had a ratio of 19:1. The ethnicity in this class was again, mostly African American, with a few Hispanics and Caucasian. The third class represented a ratio of 20:1. The ethnicity was made up of mostly Hispanics, Caucasian, with 1 African American child. My final class ratio was 18:1, where most students were Hispanic and African American.

With all of this in mind, you as the educator are able to understand your classroom and structure it in a way that it is beneficial to all students. Most of the time in my clinical setting the students are arranged in a strict manor. They must face towards the front of the classroom at all times. Even when it is time to partner up for activities they are extremely limited on how they can form groups. When structuring my classroom, I want to create an environment that is open to discussion. To keep students from feeling left out and to keep students from simply not wanting to participate, I plan on structuring the classroom in a circle instead of rows. This gives everyone an equal chance to voice their opinion and start a discussion.

Walking into the first two weeks of the EDU program I desired to experience what it would be like to be a future educator and have a grasp of how to help the molding of our youth and giving them the possibility to become future leaders. Doctor dresser was able to bring in a Concordia alumni who had just begun to experience his professional education, career and is teaching multiple different grade levels as a young teacher. When he first walked into the classroom my first impressions were that unfortunately he looked very inexperienced and unsure of what was to be expected of the lecture I thought to myself in the position of a younger student in his classroom this is a person I would not take seriously. He then proceeded to communicate

As I reflect on my lesson, I did not foresee students needing as much prompting during the independent practice. I had hoped the students would be able to use the visual supports to help them get through the process of building 1-1-1 words with the doubling rule without my support. I believe the students needed this prompting because I either gave an unclear explanation or I did not provide enough modeling. If I were to teach this same lesson again, I would provide more examples for the “I Do” and “We Do” portion of the lesson before expecting the students to perform successfully at an independent level. I would repeat the same information for the introduction and prior knowledge, though, because it was essential for the students to recognize vowel vs consonant suffixes and examples/non-examples of 1-1-1 words.

My parents were born in China and immigrated to America around their mid-20 and then a couple of years later they had my sisters and I. My parents did not have a good education and to them, education was everything here in California. They went through numerous hardships and worked numerous jobs that were terrible, unsanitary, and unfair. To them, education was everything for my siblings and I and the way they viewed education was similar to how a functionalist would too. They see only the positive in education and “view education in terms of the benefits and functions” (Major, Education and Religion). I understand where my parent’s viewpoint in education came from because of how tough life was for them, but school was not easy for me. We lived in a very small city called El Monte and it was and still is a very poor city. I always knew we struggled with financial problems, so I saw education as a way out of this “poor” life for my family and me. It may take years to obtain a stable position in society, but from my parent’s influence, I could see that it would be worth it in the end. I have encountered problems in school where I was not exceeding my expectations in specific subjects or I was not getting the grades I needed. A majority of the population in my high school were Hispanics and less than 15% were Asians, including me. The students in my school were not very motivated to learn or even had goals beyond high school.

Education has always extremely important to me and I believe it is the most important tool anyone can have. Growing up with well-educated parents always showed me what an education can give you, but it also gave me an environment where learning was something to be proud of. As both a Salisbury University student and a Salisbury native, I have invested a lot of time and effort into this city. I am a product of the Wicomico County Public School System and I could not be more proud of that. My experiences in minority-majority schools taught me lessons that go beyond the classroom—lessons about how our world works. Attending primarily underserved schools (Wicomico Middle/High) showed me where public school education both succeeds

We all have our opinoins of school, you either love it or you hate. Teachers are the ones who give us impression of school. Most of the time your opinion of school is due to your classroom inviroment. Your classroom enviroment depends on your class mates or your teacher, but in my opinion your teacher makes or break your how you feel about being a school. The way that a teacher operates her classroom can either be very enjoyble and make you wanna be there or make you miserable and make you dread having to attend her class. I don’t really remember much about my school days, but I do remember my fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Harrel, was the best teacher ever. A teacher you could never forget. I can’t remember any of my other teachers so I am gonna use my son’s Pre-K teacher as an example of a bad teacher. His teacher’s name was Mrs. McRee, she was not a partent’s favorite teacher. These two teacher was totally opisite of eacher in many, many ways.