The teacher provided physical and mental safety from insult and diminishment. Mike Rose emphasized that a good environment actually would help students do better, “And there was safety to take risks, to push beyond what you can comfortably do at the present, ‘coaxing out thinking along,’ as one of Steve Gilbert’s student put it, bringing out our best interpretive abilities” (46). These democratic classrooms also showed the amazing respect of people toward another, especially toward students of different ethnicities. They respected each other’s background, their languages, and history. They helped one another study and made them feel comfortable.
* Ensure that, if you do quote briefly from a book or other source, you reference the quote by using quotation marks “ “ and name the source (e.g. author and title). * Ensure that, if you have been working with others as a group, you don’t copy from others, but offer only your own work for assessment. We encourage students to collaborate but collusion to commit fraud must be avoided. * Ensure that, in practical classes, all work must be seen as ongoing by your tutor.
Summary of “Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission?” In the article, “Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission?” by, Andrew Hacker and Claudia Drefius there are many suggestions on how to reform colleges to make the price of admission worth it to students attending. One idea stated in the article was engaging all students; “professors must make an effort to reach their students” (180). The authors are suggesting that instead of just teaching day to day curriculum they should pay attention to how all the students are performing. Another point stated was that colleges are not pushing their students minds. Instead of worrying about the pay off the students should be concerned with developing all they can intellectually.
I hope that my students use the skills that they learn in my classroom so I can help them progress their skills more. This teaching style is classified as constructivist demonstrator or personal model. It can also be classified as constructivist philosophy, as it is a very practical method of teaching. I also intend to use other teaching methods, although I intend to maximize those that I am already knowledgeable
In Holden’s case, he probably wanted to say that Holden should follow the school rules and become obedient. In Mr. Spencer’s view Holden was failing in school, and because they are in a close relationship, he definitely wanted to help Holden to normally spend his school life. Therefore, by telling Holden this quote, he hoped Holden would not try to break school rules and live along not crossing any bounds that would lead him into difficulties. Question #6. Why wouldn’t Holden try to listen to Mr. Spencer about his poor academic accomplishments although he knows his failures?
Task 3: From looking at the key influences on my personal learning and development, I identified and explained how and why six key influences affect my learning. These key influences were: time, friends, aspirations, employment, lifestyle and motivation. My personal learning and development may help to benefit others, such as service users, peer group, friends and family for a number of reasons, whether it benefits the groups in the present or future. My peer group could benefit from my personal learning process because I would be able to provide feedback from my experiences and any new skills or information I had gained I would be able to give guidance and pass on to my peers. Service Users would be able to benefit from my learning process because any mistakes I made I would be able to learn from them for the future.
His main preference was for a kinaesthetic approach whilst also utilising aspects of verbal and auditory styles. This I felt was appropriate for the placement and I saw my role as mentor as being the facilitator of stimulating learning experiences. To effectively do this I was required to develop my understanding of the wide variety of teaching skills and learning theories to enable Sidney to gain the best form his time with me. There are many papers and books about the way people learn and how they are taught. Reece and Walker (2003) describe five main schools of thought regarding learning, Behaviourism, Neo Behaviourism, Cognitive, Humanistic and Gestalt Theory.
The authors discussed many strategies that leadership could use to turn a school around, mostly about changing the culture in the school such as using school’s symbols, history, vision and values, stories, rituals and traditions. Used successfully, a leader can “create a cohesive, meaningful, nurturing social milieu for teachers to teach and students to learn” (Deal and Peterson, page 15). Additionally, Deal and Peterson describe how school leaders can transform negative and toxic cultures into positive and nurturing cultures which benefits both staff and students.
They should not all be expected to be proficient on the same standardized test. Teachers should be able to provide evidence that their students are making educational gains. However, tests should be based on the student’s knowledge and level of education. Many people are quick to blame the teachers and feel they should be held accountable for students not achieving proficiency. It is important to me to become more knowledgeable regarding education events so I can defend my profession.
Is it not ironic then, that the very nature of teaching often makes us surrogate fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters? Students must be encouraged to do more than their best, for although it is clearly absolutist, we are all (or should be) capable of some intellectual development; achieving just enough to get by is a ‘cop-out’; we and our students should be challenged to grow. Completing my Bachelor’s