As a a 5th grade, AIG, teacher at a small Title 1 community school in North Carolina, I have always obsessed over meeting the needs of all students who enter my classroom. This obsession, like many teachers, has led me on a wild goose chase year after year. My focus is on all 20-25 goslings that walk through my door for the 180 days that they are mine, but I also have to remember to care for all the Geese that come alongside my goslings. These geese are the parents of my students and yes, I’m still chasing them as I learn to support them within my classroom too.
As a teacher, you learn to analyze data to guide your instruction based on your students’ needs. You use data to create and provide interventions that target their learning goals.
Teachers are able to target the learning gaps by developing a plan of action based on the needs for our students. Verbiest (2014) and Hershkovitz (2015) argue data is used to tailor (how we sever students, how we offer support, types of support, what resources we need to invest on, whether we take a student to students needs with our school psychologist) instruction for students in all content areas in an effort to increase student achievement. As a result, the school can provide specific professional learning, support, and resources to teachers based on the needs and areas of weakness of our students (Fox, 2001). As lifelong learners, teachers recognize that their professional practice continues to evolve as they reflect and act on new information. If teachers have information that helps them confidently identify the root of educational challenges and track progress, they can more readily develop action plans that will have a positive impact on their students’ achievement (Halverson et al.,
In Mary Oliver’s Wild Geese, the purpose is to inform the audience to accept themselves and not try to conform to standards set by society. The speaker mainly establishes credibility through her understanding of the struggles that the audience faces. In the quote, “You do not have to be good,” she displays her understanding of the audience by implying that they can let their guards down and let their true colors show, consequently causing the audience to feel accepted and place trust in the speaker. The speaker also appeals to ethos by asking the audience to tell her about their despairs and she will do the same in return. This shows the audience that the speaker is honest and open, forging trust in the audience and this elevates her position in their minds.
Once the information is gathered and assess the teacher can then make educational decisions on how to better take the students needs without making the student feel isolated from other who may not be on the same level as
Canadian Geese (Branta canadensis) are the most widely distributed geese in North America and have an extensive range in the northern temperate, subarctic, and arctic regions. Canadian geese are commonly found on lakes, ponds, rivers, urban and suburban areas. (basically everywhere). They can be a partly migratory or resident species. Geese that live in temperate or mild climates can be resident (non-migratory) due to an abundant winter food source and lack of predators. Partly migratory geese travel a short distance south before the winter months in search of food resources, a warmer climate, and safer habitats. During the spring, geese travel back up to their breeding territories.
The opportunities that NHS provides and would provide me if I was to be accepted are vast. NHS would provide me an extra element I would be able to add to my transcript to help me get into a university that I would like to join. I believe that if I were to join NHS it would greatly help me get into that college and that program. NHS would not only help me get into college but it would also recognize the effort I put into my school work and my sports. I have always taken the hardest and the most rigorous courses and excelled at them as well.
Through teacher-led research, the findings which are generated through the gathered evidence for these enquiries can be employed by policy-makers and other governmental bodies in order to inform the production of new educational policies that are “evidence-supported” and not “evidence-based”, as all evidence must always be analysed carefully in order to avoid occurring in biased results (Pollard, 2014, online), and have a relevance within a classroom setting.
However, to use the data more effectively in identifying the weaknesses and improving student learning, the team proposes the plan for teacher’s data literacy training. The administration selects the PLC data team and the coach is assigned to train teachers to acquire necessary skills to interpret and use data in the most meaningful way. The training will help teachers to increase the understanding and gain skills necessary to analyze the assessment results and implement better instructional strategies to improve students’ achievements.
In today’s global economy, many companies find themselves outsourcing their manufacturing to lower costs (Kumar, Zampogna & Nansen, 2010). For Canada Goose, “Made in Canada isn’t just a slogan stitched on a label – it’s our promise to our customers” (Canada Goose Inc., 2015). According to an article featured in International Journal of Production Research the authors conclude that “an organisation should be careful not to outsource work related to the core competencies of the firm, as they are how the organisation best provides value to end customers and sustainable competitive advantage” (Kumar, Zampogna & Nansen, 2010). This reinforces the strategy of Canada Goose. Two of the main features to the company’s cold weather outerwear are the coyote fur used around the hoods and the down feathers from Canada geese. The coyote fur provides a protection from frostbite on the wearers face and coyote pelts are abundant in North America. Additionally, the company sources the down of Canada geese as a “by-product from the poultry industry” for its insulation. Furthermore, their product was designed
We then transform this data into actionable information and share it with our partners so that they can determine the factors that will positively impact our students' educational journey.
Richards, we discussed how the teachers within our school study the data of each student. She explained that data needs to be collected for all interventions and that it is very important to have at least six to eight weeks of data. The intervention should have specific target skills and goals. Student goals should be created so that they can have quantifiable data. For example they should be written as “Jimmy will read 40 out of 46 sight words” instead of “Jimmy will increase his reading skills.” Also the goals should be created so that the target is something that is attainable in a six to eight week intervention period. Many teachers create an intervention binder or folder for their students to collect data in. The school district I am in uses a form that has the goal, skill, date of intervention, data of progress, and other components on it so that teachers use a uniform data sheet that can be understood by everyone (H. Richards, personal communication, March 16,
With data driving instructional practices students achieve more, and with students achieving more school move closer
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt communicated an address to the Vice President, the Speaker of The House, Congress, and other United States citizens. In his speech, Roosevelt summarized the events that took place on December 7, 1941. He reminded congressmen of the peace and diplomacy displayed between the two nations prior to the attack and then went on to detail the events that took place and proposed a plan of action. The majority of people who are aware of the message in Roosevelt’s speech could agree that he, “had a way with words, especially an ability to produce easily understood explanations of his policies” (Schlesinger, 2008). After the horrific Japanese offensive on Pearl Harbor, along with Malaya, Hong
Teacher education is enhanced by using teachers as researchers. Teachers, who do research, can provide information on student interaction and classroom environments, and have a broad sampling field due to the amount of time spent in scholastic settings. This kind of action research allows a teacher to share with others what she/he has learned. It also offers to them, foundations for decisions regarding appropriate interventions and outcomes for improving students’ education or literacy within their classroom or school. When a teacher/researcher collects data for the purpose of research, they will mostly likely use a qualitative method (Johnson, 2008). Within this research, data is collected through observations and the answering of questions that relate to the data. Using this method, questions are more open ended and less defined, so there is more room for researchers to collect a variety of data. There are many ways that data can be collected for research purposes such as, the use of rubrics, student profiles, logs, and observation records that may consist of anecdotal records, checklists, reflections, conferences, interviews, and surveys. During my CIRG 621 my action research was based around Math. Although these courses are geared toward Reading Language arts I wanted to improve my student’s math scores and my ability to
By tailoring lessons designed to fit each student I am able to better help them understand what they are learning. For instance, having a child very interested in kinesthetic or auditory styles of learning I can easily integrate academics while also stimulating a passion for lifelong learning.
To say that "I am extremely passionate about working with children" would be an enormous understatement in regards to my personal experiences, ideologies and self-proclaimed purposes in respects to working in public schools. Being passionate about ones every day line of work is a huge deciding factor for most of us when it comes to “what we want to be when we grow up.” Conversely, it was quite simple for me, you see the rewards of teaching truly lie in the outcomes of one’s teaching. Knowing that from the first day of school, what I do and how I do it will have a domino effect on hundreds of lives throughout my career as an educator. In hopes to not only work in a field that I both admire and aspire to be a part of, I am also driven to one day be that teacher in which my students can look back and say “Miss. Chadwick really motivated me to be a better learner, artist, writer” and hopefully “a better person.”