The Diploma in Education (DipEd) programme seeksstems to motivate and require the deep soul searching of educators. The Education Policy (White Paper 1993-2003) of Trinidad and Tobago states that our education system will establish and maintain the ethical and moral values necessary for civilized interpersonal and intergroup relationships in our multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-religious society. The Foundation Areas, has made me reflect on my teaching pedagogy with a view of and developing new methodologies to improve. I will employ these strategies thatto pupils who engage and motivate students as some of them who display in aggressive behaviors at my school Barrackpore West Secondary. This is one of the main problems faced in my school …show more content…
My school has a cultural background which belongs to an agricultural one. The language these children were speaking is their native Creole English. On delivering the curriculum, I stressed only Standard English is to be used. This caused the children to be reluctant to participate in class. Afraid of being viewed as substandard, therefore discouraging their participation and decreasing their morale and self-esteem. To achieve effective communication with my charges I must now overcome the language barrier gap. I have learnt that both Standard English and Creole English can be treated as separate dialects, and Standard English can be viewed as the acquisition of a second dialect. My task now is to educate my pupils how and when they can use both dialects by now speaking at their level of Creole English and using both dialects when necessary in my classroom. This will boost the moral of my students resulting in effective communication, and a reduction in their aggressive behavior, thus enhancing the education …show more content…
The insight was from Maslow`s hierarchy of needs model, “one must satisfy lower level basic needs before progressing on to meet higher level growth needs”. (Maslow,1962). Before students’ cognitive needs are satisfied, they must first fulfill their lower level needs as each individual child desire to move upwards the hierarchy towards self-actualization. Many children in my school are from a low socio-economic background, and according to Maslow`s hierarchy the lowest needs are food, shelter, clothing and a sense of safety. Some children aren’t fortunate enough to satisfy these needs. A hungry and tired child will find it very difficult to focus on studies in class. For children to perform at their full potential they need to feel emotionally and physically safe. One negative effect is aggressive tendencies towards others if these needs are not satisfied. To curb these issues, I must now enquire what are the problems they are faced with and to see how best I can satisfy these basic needs of my children. This will lead the students to developing a positive approach to
Imagine someone all alone stranded on a island not knowing where they are going to home or when they will eat food. Visualize kids stranded having to make there own civilization out of nothing. In WIlliam Golding's novel The Lord Of The Flies Kids become leaders rivals begin to start tribes begin to form and then havoc riecs. The kids needs are all over the place they need to feel loved, acknowledged, and safe and overall they need their standard physical needs. According to a man by the name of Abraham Maslow he has a “ Theory of Human Motivation” it is called the hierarchy of needs it has 7 levels. The hierarchy of needs is used to make sure you have all need to climb it you have to make sure you have every need.
Helping those with individual needs. A person centred approach, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is very important when looking at children’s personal need as it helps analyse their psychological needs for example their self-esteem and there self-actualisation
The theory which contributes to the theme is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs which talks about “a positive environment and positive relationships are an important part of supporting every child or young person’s needs”, Taylor Et al, (2012:p13). Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is most often displayed as a pyramid. As people progress up the pyramid, needs become increasingly psychological and social. Maslow talks about children’s safety needs and how they need to feel security. “Maslow placed a real importance on ensuring that children have their basic needs met before they can learn”, Taylor Et al, (2012; p40). Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, is relevant to safeguarding the health, safety and well-being of children and young people as, safety needs is one of the needs on the pyramid. Children and young people need to achieve safety and well-being in order to be able to move up the pyramid and therefore can learn how to safeguard themselves, “One must satisfy lower level basic needs before progressing on to meet higher level growth needs”, Mcleod, (2013).
For the first section of my Inquiry Article, I posed the question: "How Does an Educator Teach Standard English in Urban Schools, and is it Necessary? I chose this question because I plan to teach in an urban school district, and I know urban students often have a difficult time learning to speak Standard English. I also know that speaking non Standard English can affect a student's acceptance and advancement in society. However, while completing my pre-teaching field experience, I did not have the opportunity to put my theory of teaching Standard English into practice. Instead, I was able to help students understand first, the immigration experience; second, the idea of language, and how difficult it is to learn a secondary discourse; and finally, why many individuals use dialects that differ from that of Standard English. I taught a two-day immigration and speech lesson that required students to become immigrants and learn a new language, and helping students understand another student's perspective was just as intriguing and rewarding as teaching students to speak standard English.
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which is generally depicted as a pyramid, is broken down into deficiency needs and growth needs. The first four levels (deficiency needs) are physiological, safety, belongingness and love, and esteem (Huitt, 2007). These cover the essential basic needs such as food, shelter, clothing, security, acceptance, and recognition. Maslow also identified four growth needs: cognitive, aesthetic, self-actualization, and self-transcendence (Huitt, 2007). It is only after the basic needs are met that humans devote time and effort into knowledge (cognitive) and beauty (aesthetics). It is critical that teachers are aware of how these needs impact the classroom
Maslow believed that there was a hierarchy of five innate needs that influence people’s behaviors (Schultz & Schultz, 2013, p.246-247). In a pyramid fashion, at the base are physiological needs, followed by safety needs, then belonginess and love needs, succeeded by esteem needs, and finally the need for self-actualization. Maslow claimed that lower order needs must be at least partially satisfied before higher level needs are addressed. Furthermore, behavior is dominated by solely one need
Being that we all are alike with similarities in mindset based on perception, decisions, social connection: not meaning Facebook, sense of belonging and acting upon purpose, These philosophies were meant to be aware of a child that can be troubled. Children can also have difficulties because a child may be uncooperative to someone in power, perhaps they need to grab someone's attention, feeling injustice as they perceive it to seek revenge, or they perhaps feel they are lacking. A child displays these needs as a way to fit in to the world around them. Some children that are well behaved tend to fit in better and thus be an active participant as opposed to the one difficult child as this is the needs of both types of children. Dreikurs states that "his goal may occasionally vary with the circumstances: he may act to attract attention at one moment, and assert his power or seek revenge an another" (Wikibooks, 2015)
McLeod, s. (n.d.). In SimplePsychology.com (Ed.), Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Retrieved from Simple Psychology.com Web site: http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html
In 1943, psychologist Abraham Maslow developed a theory of basic human needs: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. His theory suggests that embedded in the very nature of each human being are certain needs that must be attained in order for a person to be whole physically, psychologically, and emotionally. First, there are phys...
Abraham Maslow wrote the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory. This theory was based on fulfilling five basic needs: physiological, safety, social, esteem and self-actualization. Maslow believed that these needs could create internal pressures that could influence the behavior of a person. (Robbins, p.204)
Andrew Sampson states that total proscription of mother tongue is detrimental to some extent, suggesting that code switching of mother tongue and English, under a good strategy of control, is useful for academic needs and even communicating purposes by concluding, “The results of this study suggest that code-switching is not necessarily connected to learners’ ability level and rarely signals an unwillingness to communicate in L2, but rather serves communicative classroom functions such as expressing equivalence, discussing procedural concerns, floor holding, reiterating concepts, and forming group relationships” (302). Code-switching not only improves the learner’s proficiency in English, but also allows the students to learn. In most cases, English language is meant for English-speaking students’ at level L2 or L3. Therefore, teachers should help non-native English-speaking students to code-switch in their communications. Code switching would improve the learner’s ability to identify his or her mistakes and correct those mistakes while she or he continues to learn English. At the same time, if possible, the teachers might use code switching to illustrate particular concepts and subjects. In other words, the teachers themselves can use the learner’s L1 or any other language to explain concepts or offer examples on the subjects in the learner’s L1. However, the teachers should avoid using oversimplified English words and vocabularies. This is because such approach would not help the learner to perfect his or her English
The Hierarchy of needs theory, by Maslow, shows the basic and the advanced needs that the person should fulfill to reach his or her highest potential. That is why the theory is best depicted as a pyramid including seven stages. The first stage is physiological needs: water, body temperature, sleep, and sex. When one satisfies those needs, he or she can go to the next stage. Safety needs is the second stage. Here, the person is concerned about his safety and stability, so he tries to find a good job to support himself financially, and also find a good home in a safe place. The third stage is belongingness and love. To love and be loved and accepted becomes very important in this stage, so the person starts to worry about his relationships. Being accepted and loved will lead successfully to the fourth stage, which is esteem needs. In this level, the person is more concerned about achieving and gaining approval. Ones those needs are fulfilled, the cognitive needs come to be a priority. This fifth level is attained by seeking knowledge and explor...
Maslow's first need of physiological sufficiency is very basic. This issue simply asks if the students are comfortable in their environment. That is, are they hungry, too cold, too hot? If a student?s physical environment does not match appropriately with the student?s need, he will not be motivated to learn or to achieve any higher need. Similarly, if the student does not feel safe (via the second need, security), they will not focus on working. If a student feels threatened by another student or by the teacher, he may not progress as well as hoped and in many cases, he reverts from the instruction rather than responding to it. In order to alleviate feelings of danger, a teacher can show protection and love, which is the third hierarchal need. A student must feel safe and invited in a classroom for him to achieve; making a classroom seem like a prison elicits the antithesis of motivation: lassitude.
The American higher education system has always been deemed as the best in the world. Statistics consistently show that most Nobel winners received higher education in America and a majority of international students choose America as their dream county to study abroad. The standard of higher education in America is unique and unparalleled in many ways. However, it’s always hard to live up to a great reputation. The system suffers from deficits in many respects. For example, some scholars question the effectiveness of teaching and learning as the quality of graduated students is hardly satisfactory; also, the increase of cost and tuition is skyrocketing, which puts a huge burden on students and their parents; Therefore, accountability of higher education is doubted by a variety of individuals and groups. This research paper will better explore the American higher education through the following aspects:
In most institutions of learning today, the classes are made up of students from different ethnic backgrounds. These have different traditions and also speak different languages. In a typical classroom, the majority of the students will speak the same language. The teacher must then employ strategies which will accommodate all the students in the class. This will ensure that every learner gets the best quality of education. This will enable them to be better prepared for career and expressing themselves. In this paper, strategies to assist learners of the English language in their literal development for third grade learners. In the paper, three strategies that can be used by the teacher will be discussed. New strategies and research that will help the English language learners to gain in depth mastery of the language will also be discussed. Due to the widespread learning of the English language in most schools, addressing issues of the language learners is of vital importance. Teachers should have the understanding that cultures are what give someone identity and therefore no student should leave their culture for another. Instead, there should be the blending of different cultures so that students can appreciate and learn from each other.