A teacher that has had the most impact on me would have to be my current Human Services instructor Teresa. I’m sure there have been other teachers in my past that at the time were the most impactful. I think that’s what makes them impactful in the first place, because of the time of your life or what you were trying to find in a sense helped shaped you at that time, and that includes those people that helped along the way. Teresa has been the most impactful has of late, because she has helped me fall in love with my major and has me looking forward to my future job. The Human Service major was new at my campus, and the school had hired a couple of different instructors to teach the classes the first semester. I happened to be one of the lucky
My overall experience in Intro to Human Services was phenomenal. This class was definitely one of my favorite classes this semester. I loved the way it was taught and I was able to understand how human services works while reading the book Precious throughout the semester. This course isn’t an easy class that you can just relax and breeze through. It has a lot of fundamental chapters that explain the jobs of helpers also known as human service workers. I loved how we were supposed to read the chapters before class and then we would review in class. It made more sense by doing it this way. It never felt like we were rushing through the material and the pace of the class was perfect. I also loved how professor Oropall always was willing to explain
The article, The Reading Experiences and Beliefs of Secondary Pre-service Teachers, was written by Peggy Daisey. Daisey is a professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Eastern Michigan University (190, Daisey). In the journal, Daisey devised a survey that was given to 124 pre-service teachers. The different questions being tested were regarding:
I would say that the person who influenced me at my placement was really my supervisor, Mrs. Barber. She is a very successful teacher whom i respect greatly and really look up to. She helped influence me by always encouraging me to help in the elass, and helped me to learn to take initiative. She was always helping me to learn new things, and allowed me to see the kids grow and learn, and help to teach me new things by pushing me outside my comfort zone.
She was the most caring and dedicated teacher I ever had and she respected every student as an individual. On the other hand, she had a very negative influence on my life. She is the person who told me there was no Santa Clause, which ruined Christmas for me for a very long time. Another person who has had a great influence on my life is Mr. Robinson. He was my first band teacher. He is the person who convinced me to join band, which
The Human Development’s concepts, theories and so on give me a better understanding to explain why people act in different kind of situation that they have. Make me more appreciate the value of taking Human Development class.
I interviewed a teacher from the Philadelphia School District and here is the result from my interview. I am a teacher in the head start program of Philadelphia .I have been with the head start program for 10yrs. I see children younger than kindergarteners with special needs. I see this problem not only with education but behavioral. Children with special problems can learn. You have to know how to deal with children period. Regular children and special educational children all learn. Special educational children know exactly what they’re doing just as well as regular children.
According to the article by Brian Goodwin all new teachers face three common challenges. Three common challenges are the fact that all new teachers study struggle with managing the classroom they are burdened by curricular freedom and it has a sinking feeling in their unsupportive environments. So what I take from this to mean is that obviously when you're a new teacher you struggle with the fact that you don't know whether or not how exactly are going to control your students when they misbehave when they're hyper if they have a learning disability you're not sure exactly how you're going to grab the students attention and keep it on you and keep them listening. According to mr. Goodwin he also believes that teachers about 15% of teachers
My Math Teacher, Mrs. Ladd. When thinking back and remembering all of the teachers that I have had in the past, there is one in particular that comes to mind. Her name was Mrs. Ladd. She taught math at the junior high school.
Do you remember the teacher that inspired you to do your best? Or maybe the teacher who believed in you when the rest of the world had turned against you? Teachers have a way of touching students’ lives, whether in a large or very minute way. I can think of numerous times that a teacher made a difference in my life. I am so appreciative of them, and I want to do for other students what many of my teachers have done for me. That is why, after I obtain, both, my Bachelor and Master degrees, I plan to enter the teaching profession.
There are many concerns that teachers have about rules and regulations in education. Depending upon the teachers’ focus areas, they might be worried about the development of special education; if their primary focus is athletics, they are concerned about pass / play; if a teacher is in charge of an organization that is in need of extra funds, they are worried about the new rules concerning fundraising that view raffles as gambling. All in all, they all have legitimate concerns. The new teacher evaluation system, however, seems to be the most relevant, pressing concern.
The worst teacher was one of my 5th grade teachers who at that time was my middle school teacher. To this day I would say she is a mean teacher when it comes to discipline. However, I did learn from her to be more positive when it comes to discipline. That means, of course, to discipline the students for their wrongdoings without constantly singling out particular students, but positively advising the student how they can learn from the situation. Being the sensitive student, I had another 5th grade teacher totally crush my dreams of singing. This was the beginning of my tough middle school years which I do not want anyone else to have to go through. I was able to get through middle school with the help of my high school teachers. Honestly, the majority of those teachers were the best I have had. If I had to choose, I would narrow it down to two English teachers and one science teacher. I chose these three because even though they taught different content areas, their teaching practices were very similar. If a student was stressed because they did not understand the material, or if the student misbehaved during class because the material was too tough or too easy, these teachers knew exactly what to do. I was one of the stressed students, and these teachers did everything they could to teach the content differently so I could understand it, while encouraging me that it is possible to learn anything I put my mind
I chose to do my teacher interview in my home town at Richard D. Crosby Elementary School. This K-3rd grade building is very new, it was built in 2010. It has 4 pods, one for each grade level and has a large discovery center in each pod. The school is very colorful, with each pod a different color so the children find it easy to go from area to area. I did my interview with Mrs. Doe, a special education teacher. Her room has a lot of materials for learning and is set up to have several work stations for group activities. Mrs. Doe shares her students with other special education teachers and also has a special education classroom aide. My research question is how does a teacher’s perspective on learning reflect theories and concepts in educational psychology? Mrs. Doe is faced with many challenges in her classroom, overcrowding, multi-cultural differences, learning disabilities, several students with low socioeconomic status and English language learners. There are many challenges for Mrs. Doe to deal with, but she has been teaching for 21 years and has a lot of experience. She started out as a regular classroom teacher, but switched to special education and has done so well that when she asked if she could return to the regular classroom setting, the Superintendent begged her to stay in the special education department because of her success.
Over the years, national, state, and local governments have been looking for ways to increase the academic performance among academically vulnerable students. To boost these students’ academic performance, governments have been implementing many programs to inspire innovative school reforms to K-12 educational systems across the United States. Several studies have shown that schools employing certain practices are linked to higher academic achievement. This paper will demonstrate that teacher competency and the school’s ability to provide an emotionally supportive environment are school characteristics associated with higher student academic success.
Coming into this class, I figured we would learn about how to handle different kinds of situations from a teacher’s standpoint. As it turns out, the class is much more than just that. I figured there would be group discussions consisting of some controversial issues, but I had no idea how the course would make me feel as a person and as a future educator. So far, this class has brought to light the incredibly difficult decisions I will have to make as a teacher. Not only will those decisions affect the child and parents of that child at hand, but myself as well.
The teacher that stands out most in my head is my eleventh grade English teacher. She had a liberal arts background, and enjoyed the classic American writers; Hemingway, Steinbeck, what have you. She was in the class of teachers who was more impressed by actions and honesty than suck-ups and homebodies. She was the kind of teacher who was proud when you informed her that you had skipped her class to go fishing at the river and play bluegrass music with your buddies. She was the kind of teacher who preferred that her students wrote what they truly felt, and not what they truly felt she would like to hear. She was in the rare class of teachers who tried to prepare her students for life after school, not life for school. She was a part of a small class of note-worthy teachers.