Achievers in an Elementary School Class The highest achievers and the lowest achievers in an elementary class can sometimes be treated differently because of their achievement levels. Without even knowing the class very well it can be determined who in the class is more likely to be a higher achiever and who is not as gifted. Even though it is evident sometimes who is the least and highest achievers a great deal of the time the best achievers can be overlooked if you simply watch a class for an hour
for reading in education, especially at the elementary level. The Daily 5 similar to Reader Workshop but incorporates the components of reading (comprehension, accuracy, fluency, phonics, phoneme awareness and vocabulary) is the most resent hype around reading today. The Daily 5 structure is the newest and exciting happening in our school. Teachers and students seem to be more excited about reading. The Daily 5 is a structure that is used in the class to help students develop daily habits of reading
“Finders keepers, losers weepers.” Every little kid lived by this expression. But do you ever remember getting called out of class in elementary school? You were probably really embarrassed. Everyone was staring at you, and everyone was whispering about you. It made you want to cry, right? Well, I was in the exact same position, only with one exception. I actually did something bad, but I didn’t see anything wrong with it. Obviously, the principle did. Nothing bad happened. It's just that because
essay will show my argument of why elementary school students should not receive corporal punishment with a paddle during learning time. Violence isn’t the answer as was said in “Did Corporal Punishment Save a Struggling school? “By Eric Adelson the best form of discipline, He says ‘’ is praise. (Adelson 6)Corporal punishment could turn into abuse and different punishment strategies to use on a child to get them to act the correct way. Most children in elementary schools come from homes that are already
teaching elementary school students. Jenny Peters, writer of the article Confessions of An Elementary School Teacher, observes that it is indeed a “challenging career” that in the end has “immeasurable rewards” (1). However, no matter what you have to do, it seems as though those rewards overrule anything and everything as long as your heart is in it, not only for the students, but for the drive to teach them and lead them to bigger and brighter futures. It’s hard to believe how long elementary school
children behave differently according to the situation that they are in. For example, a child who is quiet in class may be rather noisy in the lunchroom or on the playground. They may feel that they are in a controlled environment when they are in the classroom, but feel that they have more freedom to talk with their peers when the teacher doesn’t have all of her attention on one class but on other children from other classes as well. The two natures of knowledge are relativism and absolutism
I’ve wanted to be a teacher since I was little girl. I would always bring home books and papers that we no longer used in class, and I would play “school” with my little sister. I want to be like my teachers that have encouraged me to strive for the things I want, so I can do the same for other children. Another reason I want to be a teacher is so I can have my own classroom and decorate it the way I want and set my own rules. I want to be a good role model for the students as well. Being a teacher
ABSTRACT: By looking at certain WEB sites (AskEric, PBS, KidLink, Interactive Frog Dissection, Hillside Elementary School, and Dade County Schools) this paper examines the ways the WEB is used in elementary schools. In addition, this paper addresses some controversial issues that arise when the WEB is used in elementary classrooms. The development and growth of the Worldwide Wide Web have had an enormous impact on several areas including government, business, and even education. The WEB facilitates
experience that is a collaborative experience for both student and their families will make homework more enjoyable and motivating. Questions considered will include: 1. Does a decrease in nightly homework increase weekly homework completion? 2. Will in class discussions and explanations of homework allow for more students completing tasks?
Children confront many transitions throughout their lifetime that can be stressful. They face their first transition from home to school, elementary to middle school, middle to high school, and high school to college or work (Schumacher, 1998). However, the transition from elementary to middle school seems to be harder for adolescents due to the personal changes of puberty. Research suggests that roles, expectations, and responsibilities are the primary concerns of students (Akos, 2002). In order
being flexible, and often wonder "Does it matter what I think?" I think and certainly hope the stages come full circle. When we were young and learning to write it seemed that each sentence was an accomplishment, something to be proud of. In elementary school our teachers encouraged creativity. Writing was fun, not a chore. It seemed we could write about anything and our teacher would write "Very Good!", stick a red star on our page and encourage more. In fifth grade I wrote a poem on the color
the lives of twenty three children. She starts her narrative with a description of a child whose poverty worried her so much that her face haunted her dreams, and recounts how her search for the child brought her to Brookfield Elementary where she adopted a first grade class with the promise of sending them all to college if they graduated high school. The book discusses the influences in her life that led her to do what she did, as well as the struggles that came with trying to help so many children
Homework isn 't fair, but, according to my mother, neither is life. Over my years as an elementary and highschool student, and now the years I 'm completing in college, I have been told over and over how important it is to get homework done. Not how important it is to learn, not how important it is to spend my time actually knowing, but to dedicate my student career to the completion of homework and the memorization, not learning, of what I test over. It’s of my belief that, until reaching the grades
When I enrolled into Math for Elementary Teachers I knew for sure that is was going to be an easy class, but was I wrong. Elementary math has changed a lot since I was in elementary school, which was a complete shock to me. I was taught the procedural way, or as I like to call “lazy way,” and now students are being taught the conceptual way. I never heard of the conceptual way of teaching until taking this course, but I have to say I like this way a lot better than the procedural way. In the beginning
developed back in the late 1960’s by Elliot Eisner incorporated three areas of art into the curriculum. These included art object, art criticism and the historical context of art. His program developed into a theoretical base for art curriculum in the elementary schools that is very similar to programs used today (Madeja 2001). Today most art education programs are made up of four components. One of these components is art aesthetics. Aesthetics is the study of the nature of a piece of artwork. It analyzes
The Life of a Teacher When looking back on the times of becoming the young woman that I am today, there have been times that I questioned what I wanted to become. I remember when I was in elementary school, I would play school with my friends and I would teach them. But, when I went into middle school, I became interested in the medical field, and this continued until my high school years. Both my mother and my stepmother are teachers and they have encouraged me to look into the field, but I
of the colors she needed to use for her work, I heard her say, “Blue is for the clouds, and I need purple too for the flowers.” The school has an uncommon process where they exchange the whole class with another teacher to learn more about a certain topic. When that happens, Mr. Kory has a year older class than his regular to teach them advanced math. Instead of Jasmin going to the other classroom she stayed there as she was participating in it, she was more sophisticated than the other kids her
other kids. But I was the unique child that made my education different and more enjoyable. My learning process has five processes: elementary, middle, high school, college, and the future. Elementary school started out as a bore but moved on to eventually being fun and enjoyable. I grew to love school and learning during my fourth and fifth grade years at Zia elementary school. My teacher taught me the value of history and American History through books and putting on plays. I became very close to
Develop positive self-esteem and interpe... ... middle of paper ... ... I appreciated the opportunity I got to observe students in their classroom. Elementary schools are diverse in nature. When I compared the previous school visit and this visit, I realize that environment in which children learn affects their success in the future. All elementary schools I visited thus far strive to create academically and socially sound scholars. Each school implements different resources to maximum success for
encountered in the real world.[6] In 1959, at the University of Illinois, Donald Bitier began PLATO, the first, large-scale project for the use of computers in education. The several thousand-terminal system served undergraduate education as well as elementary school reading, a community college in Urbana, and several campuses in Chicago.[7] Thus, the era of computers in education is little more than 35 years old.[8] The Early Pioneers At Dartmouth, in 1963, John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz transformed