Parras Middle School

redesign the elementary curriculum to focus on movement education concepts, middle school will focus on traditional team sports, fitness/wellness and high school will focus on lifetime activities and fitness/wellness. During each stage of education the information presented will build upon each other so the students will be able to move on to more complex activities, concepts and skills. The focus in elementary school will be on movement education concepts. Some of these concepts include: body

Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord! Psalms 27:14” A verse that has helped me stay driven and passionate throughout the years of discovering my desire to further my education. During grade school and up to high school, I always struggled in my academics and that turned into a lack of motivation. I recall taking college courses that did not fall into a plan of pursuing a degree. All I wanted was to take fun classes such as drumming and water polo and

When I was in Elementary School my parents, especially my dad preached to me to always read because your vocabulary will soon become sizable. I really did not care about reading for fun or about what my dad said. I know that it is my responsibility to read on my own but it did not help that most if not all of my friends in elementary school did not read books for a hobby. My parents tried to get me reading at a young age, but now I am starting to read a lot more than I did several years ago.

PART ONE: HELPING CHILDREN EXCEL IN A TRADITIONAL SCHOOL OR HOMESCHOOL SETTING Both of my children went to a local public elementary school, were home schooled for middle school, then they went to Florida Atlantic University High School. By the time my sons were 15 years of age, they were full time college students. They were taking around 15 credit hours at the university. One of my sons chose to purse a Cellular Neuroscience degree as a pre-med student and my second son his Electrical Engineering

Mansfield Summit is a high school located in Arlington, Texas and belongs to the Mansfield Independent School District (MISD). Mansfield Summit has been open for thirteen years, and is one of the oldest high schools in MISD. The Title 1 campus has a diverse student body and offers several academic programs on its campus. Currently 50.6% of the students on campus participate in the free/reduced lunch program for economically disadvantaged students. Mansfield Summit’s percentage for those participating

Our house was the size of a town house with limited water supply that was shared between neighborhoods. The majority of the neighborhood was uneducated, because schooling was expensive. Thus my mother and father only completed schooling up to high school. My mother was a house wife and my father was a street merchant. He sold electronic parts at the flea market. Every morning at six am he would strap his inventory on the back of his bike and trek 20 miles to the market to sell it. Our lifestyle did

1) How could you use what you have learned so far in this course in a secondary school setting (middle and high school)? Be sure to include both content and pedagogical knowledge in your discussion. What generic levels of skill proficiency or stages of learning (use whichever you prefer) can you expect students to attain at each of the school levels (elementary, middle, and high school)? In elementary the student at the informing stage and just getting acclimated to gymnastics and dance. These student

from the first day we meet with friends, we write new memories with new friends and there is no end of writing memories with friends. The song “The Call” by Regina Spector reminds me to my High School friends, start from the first day of school we had many new memories that we shares, until the end of the school day with friends we still have new memories to shares with. Regina wrote the song for one of Narnia’s movie, she wrote that song in order to shows the previous memories of Narnia’s movie. It

I think that Alexandria is developmentally on track compared to other first graders. From what I observed she is able to perform well with the school routine and the appropriate behaviors that should be performed when in school. An example of this is when Alexandria’s teacher announced to her whole class, “I love your eyes” in regards to having all her students paying attention to the teacher. When in circle time, Alexandria also performs how she should, with respect, quietness, and only talked when

American students drop out of school every year (TBF, 2012). After World War II, the United States had the #1 high school graduation rate in the world. Today, we have dropped to # 22 among 27 industrialized nations (TBF, 2012). These astronomically large numbers are why I chose this topic. Public schooling is in crisis, and more and more people are opting to go to private schools or be homeschooled. Even through all of this, there are many glimpses of hope. Many public schools are still very good, and