There are several reasons that I would chose to teach in New Orleans. The first would be that I have family in New Orleans and it would be nice to get closer to them while at the same time doing something that would make a difference. I feel that the New Orleans schools are a place where I could make a difference. My goal in becoming a teacher has been to make a difference in the life of at least one teenager and hopefully many more. I want to do what my high school history teacher did. I want to make the past real to students. It is my belief that given the opportunity I could change people’s lives. I could get them interested in the subject matter by bringing it to life with new technologies and maybe, just maybe, make that one student who wants to drop out stay in school and head off to college. I have always felt that the best way for a teacher to make a difference is not to stick with what they are comfortable with, which for me is a small town in rural Vermont, but instead to challenge themselves. After all it was apparent to me in school that the teachers that had settled for what came easy were the teachers that the students did not respect. I believe that the students respect a person who is eager to step out of their element in order to try to make a difference. It shows the students that the person is genuine and truly wants to try. That is why I want to teach in the high need areas in the country and in New Orleans specifically. I believe that stepping out of my comfort zone will enable me to complete my goals, while at the same time, hopefully, I can become a role model. A role model, that tells the students that they too need to step out of their comfort zone and strive to make it to college.
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... to be flexible and change my teaching when I see that it is not working for the students, or I come across a topic that really interests them. The best example of this was teaching about labor movements. The students were acting bored so I went on a little tangent about violent strikes and the students became interested. I showed them the impact of a strike on a town a few miles from where I am teaching and they really became engaged, the assessment that they took on labor unions had one of the highest average grades of any of the tests I have given. I do not have any hard evidence of reaching all students as I have not been at it long enough to really gauge the progress of the students, but I feel that my techniques have been successful thus far. This question really comes down to the fact that I lack experience but have many ideas that are currently being tested.
I believe that if you are going to teach, you have to have some degree of love for children. Once any teacher has lost that, I think it is time for them to stop teaching. The two most important things that have inspired me to become a teacher are being able to work with young children all the time and the personal rewards that come with teaching.
As a teaching assistant, I should have a clear vision of what the learning objectives are and what are the intended outcomes of these objectives and how the teacher wish to achieve it. Sometimes the objective may have set for half termly but still however before each lesson I should discuss the learning objective with the learning group I have been assigned for . Depending on the objectives I should plan activities and prepare materials that are chorded at the apt tune for the learner’s different skills. It is also vital to make sure that the learner understands how each activity relates to his or her goals and targets.
Anybody who has taken a long car trip to Disney Land with young kids can understand the importance of having a vision and setting goals for reaching that vision. Kids see the vision, Disney Land, Mickey Mouse, Space Mountain, games, and fun. However, kids do not recognize the goals and objectives necessary to reaching that vision. In other words, kids do not recognize the things that must happen between leaving the house and arriving at Disney Land. Consequently, parents spend three days, in the car, listening to their kids ask, “Are we there yet?”
For every task there is an objective, a specified target, and a time limit. When creating a plan for a task time frame is a very important piece of the project to keep in mind. If you don 't have a set time frame with objectives to complete slowly throughout the process then it becomes a very extensive task with a milestone (Maglio, Gollwitzer, & Oettingen, 2014). It is always of the best interest to set your specified target lines to ensure that you can execute in a critical manner. It is important for all members to set their own personal tasks as well as a group task to ensure that all objectives and goals are met.
This reading discusses a lot about the need for students, teachers, and the school to raise expectations. Expectations for students are limited because we choose them to be this way. Students are capable of doing incredible work if the teacher believes in them, and teaches them the appropriate and necessary skills to do their best work. Giving the students the needed skills and attributes to become successful writers is the first step to see the work they can do. Competency leads to confidence which will lead to students wanting to write, and when students want to write and are not forced to write, that is when we will see their best work.
Have you ever wondered what goals you wanted to achieve while making an interesting informative speech? There are many times people struggle in making an informative speech until they were told about making sure the audience understand the speech, keeping their interest and making sure they remember the speech.
Goal setting is critical part of the overall performance management system. Goals provide a framework for monitoring an employee’s performance throughout the year. By setting goals and measuring their success, employees can able to see where they are going, what they have accomplished and what are their capabilities. Goals are motivational, provide clear expectations, drive employee performance, enable teams to work towards a common purpose and they support company culture. Below is the overall performance management system and Goal setting is the first step in the whole process:
Many issues and problems emerge in organizations that require action by leadership in order to maximize productivity. Because numerous decisions are made on any given day in an attempt for a school or organization to operate as smoothly as possible, constant effort and energy is required to monitor an organization’s culture. A problematic situation in my current organization that is rooted in employee motivation and attitudes is the lack of satisfaction communicated by group members. A year ago, the organization participated in a culture assessment that was conducted by the Kentucky School Boards Association (KSBA). This audit was ordered by our executive director because of the displeasure and dissatisfaction employees were communicating and displaying while at work. The
“There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect” - Ronald Reagan. The first step to overcoming barriers is to identify where those barriers lie within a community, and then addressing those barriers one at a time.
Education has always been a primary concern for my parents, who taught me that if I need to succeed in life, I have to be educated. Following their guide, I have always valued and tried to get the most of any educational opportunity I have had. Having grown up in a business family, I have always been interested in focusing my career in the business field. My Mother and Father own their own company, and they are constantly talking about business, which has inspired me to follow their path. When my parents retire, they want me to carry on their legacy. For this reason, I have decided to pursue my studies in the field of Business and Leadership at Marylhurst University. I want to pursue a well-rounded education at this established university where I also can have life experiences in the outside world, which will ultimately help me to become a successful leader in our family business.
Setting goals is the most important thing you can do in your life. Without goal's you are going to have no direction, no ambition to be successful, no drive to stay in school, and trouble finding a career that will provide for you. Without these three things, achieving your goals is going to be one of the toughest tasks in the years to come.
Out of everything that we 've learned this quarter, goal setting was something that stood out to me. There are a few times where I set a goal in my head but end up never achieving them, wether it was something very simple or more of a long term goal. A technique that stood out to me in our notes is, writing down your goals. I don 't I 've ever written down a single goal that I 've had. In class and in our notes we talked about how it is important to write down your goals and how you cannot just write the general idea of your goal, but how you need to be very specific in what it is you want to achieve. I think that in college it 's very important to set long, mid, and short term goals because somedays will be harder than others and you need
With the New Year around the corner, many of us after rejoicing are prepared to set a new resolution for the ensuing year.
A person needs to achieve certain goals in one's life before you can call them successful. Success is to achieve goals, you have set. I have set certain goals I would like to achieve in my lifetime. Some of these goals are personal while others are professional. My professional goals in life are to find a good job that makes me happy, get a good education, find a job that makes enough money for me to support my family, and help people. Goals it is very important for me to receive a good education. Most job fields require a descent education. If I don't have an education I would not be able to function properly at the work place and I would not understand what to do. To maintain a good job that will make good money will require me to go thorough schooling or training and maybe even both. Education is the first and foremost way to become successful, because the job I will choose will need me go to school and maybe even beyond college. My happiness in what I do is also a goal for me I my life. There is no way someone can become successful if they are not happy with what they are doing. ...
In today's constantly changing world, our children and youth need to learn inquiry-based, problem solving skills to that they may become successful members of society and live productive lives.