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    needs to be able to motivate him or herself rather than having something physical as motivation. Aside from teaching kids to be motivated by trophies, giving them underserved awards undermines the kids’ success and does not help prepare them for real life where the competition is real and awards and earned not received. Having competed in soccer, basketball, football and wrestling growing up I understand the conflicted feeling when everyone on the team whether they played or not got the exact same meaningless

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    position of their mother. Atticus is a perfect example of an exemplary parent because he teaches his children many lessons throughout the book, with love, understanding, direction, and examples, hence the reason why Scout and Jem both comprehend and grasp the lessons Atticus is teaching them. For instance, Atticus teaches Scout in chapter three, no one knows what is occurring in someone else’s life, but one must still treat that person fairly. Furthermore, Atticus also teaches Jem and Scout to treat everyone

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    In the fascinating story To Kill A Mockingbird, many imperative lessons are taught. The Author uses Atticus teach these lessons through his wise words. Atticus teaches these lessons to not only the audience, but Jem and Scout too. Some of the main things he teaches his kids about are understanding people, using the mind instead of the body, the cruel reality of stereotypes, and true Courage. One of the first things Atticus tries to teach Scout and Jem about is how to understand people and see

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    itself to support children’s language and literacy development through active and multimodal learning. The first lesson introduces students to Jackie Robinson and his background, which is a person and information they have to know before they can understand how his actions impacted history. At the beginning of the lesson students will be asked to use their prior knowledge, from their life and the current story in their Journey’s Reading series, to think about and identify artifacts and who they might

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    eventually asked to work with PBS on the website to find appropriate content and to introduce it to education teachers of all grades. The website is a resource for teachers of all grades from k-12 offering everything from pictures to videos, diagrams, and lessons. The main topic Margret Miller covered is how resourceful it is for first-year teachers. The website offers each of the main subjects covered in class mathematics, literacy, English and language arts, science, and social studies. The website also

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    hopes and repeatedly told him to look upon it again. After some time pondering over the fish, the “influence has extended to the details of every subsequent study” (Scudder 497). The lesson and teacher affected Scudder’s study so much that the lesson he learned leaked into everything else he studied in his field. The lesson of always looking for more details than you think exist and reading more of what's in between the lines of music, or a fish. I relatively saw this happening for me with my first music

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    exception. At Archdale Trinity Middle School there was a teacher by the name of Mr. Gary Hunsucker. I will never forget that name, for he impacted me for life. All of the students wanted Mr. Hunsuker, probably because his class was fairly easy to pass. What the students didn't know was the lessons he taught. Not only lesson plans, but life lessons. I remember seeing Mr. Hunsucker in the halls. I can remember his radiant smile, and his humble complexion. I always wanted the experience of having Mr.

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    The focus area for this observation: Leaderships skills and Life Experience There are several best practices I observed during this observation they are Leaderships expertise and Life Experience. I observed Mr. Rohlmeier's classroom lesson objective that instructed the students to write a paper solving the problem with the Proclamation of 1763. The focus of the journal was the Sugar Act that proceeded to the previous week of the Currency Act, Stamp Act, Molasses ACT and the Proclamation of 1763

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    Lesson Plan: Write to Inform Grade Level: The grade level is first grade. Topic/Content: The topic of this lesson is to write to inform. Objective/Purpose with Standards Addressed: In this lesson, the students will know what we are going to be talking about, which is the topic because I’ve shown them the butterfly board. Then, in our discussion, I will clarify any questions that the students may have regarding the material presented. Moreover, the students will write the topic on top of their worksheet

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    Forrest Gump said that, “life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get.” Highly Effective Instructors know that this is not the case. These type of instructors know there is usually a guide (an organization) on the inside lid which indicated what each type of chocolate contains. Trait number six is ORGANIZED (PICTURES) Organized area, Sloppy area Instructor organization can be divided into two broad areas: 1) administrative organization and 2) educational organization

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