In a school there are many other people to consider as your team rather than just the people you work with closely on a daily basis. Knowing and executing your role as an individual to the best of your ability allows you to be a valued member of any team. It is also essential to know the roles of those around you. This allows you to fully understand and support each other. By working as a team you can gain valuable knowledge from those who are more experienced than you, but it also allows you to suggest newer and fresher ways to approach learning.
In the book What Great Teachers Do Differently, Todd Whitaker chronicles things that great teachers do. By adopting many of the practices in the book, a new teacher can be well on their way to becoming a great teacher. High expectations, creating a climate of caring, decision making, and learning to ignore things are just a few of the things that great teachers do. Great teachers have high expectations not just for their students, but also for themselves. The expectations a teacher places on his or herself are directly related to those placed on their students.
They don't just please the overall thirst for an “easy A.” Strict professors are good professors when it comes down to getting the job done in the classroom. Strictness won't be the only thing keeping the students in their element. As crazy as it sounds, the student who wants to succeed should desire a teacher who assigns quite a bit of homework versus a minuscule amount that won't
A student’s participation in various activities throughout the community opens the door to not only a better society, but also an improvement in the student’s morality and character. The Dalton School’s mission statement argues that one who is involved in community service “will feel a sense of accomplishment” and their ability to connect with others is enriched. Being that technology is so advanced these days, students are commonly dependent on their electronic devices to get them through the day. Such devices set students back from lending a hand to others due to the fact that they are often distracted by social media and improving society’s view of themselves. By requiring students to take a break from technology and lend a helping hand, they become better people because the student then realizes the importance of human interaction and how just a simple smile can brighten someone’s day.
Giving students an opportunity to create every day will keep them engaged in learning, keep frustration at bay, and lead to happier, more fulfilled children. Also, art and music stress cooperation much more than math an reading do. Students can learn to work together, plan together, and create together in these classes, whereas in a math or reading class they may be competing, or simply not interacting at
In every test or quiz given to them, they get mastery or above on them because they study and read over their notes every night. They encourage and empower me to renew my commitment to my education. Whenever I don’t feel motivated or just feel like giving up, I think of them and remind myself that they didn’t reach that level naturally or because they are geniuses. They reached that level because they took advantage from the beginning and practiced good study habits so the information stuck to them. And so in short, they worked hard for it and put effort into it.
Because of the granted acceptance that will follow if in a group or crowd, it is no wonder why most of today's students tend to be conformist The strength of desire to conform is a personality trait whereby some people will try to conform to whatever group they are in at the time, while other 'non-conformists' will go in the other direction, deliberately asserting their individuality by rejecting all but a very few sets of norms. Because school (especially middle school and high school) is a time for self discovery, a fair amount of students like the idea of living a non-conformist life style because it provides room for growth and try to follow their own route, but others are too set on being included into groups or specially liked by others. Often, an individual will conform to society to avert ridicule and jeers. Many people conform without even knowing, for example, the way an individual will dress when with friends. Conformity can be showed as: being on time most of the time, fulfilling academic requirements, generally keeping within bounds of accepted decorum, but sometimes social influence and pressure of others, affect the way people think, feel and behave and therefore, cause a deeper conformity.
Not to mention his stellar grades in every class with his best subject, being a teacher’s pet. His message simply read, “Quit while you’re ahead, you’ll never win anyway.” Something about this altercation didn’t sit well with me and from that moment on I knew what I would do. I was going to become the schools next Senior Class President. I began by talking to my friends about my new goal. They all promised to vote for me and pass the word along.
What I Wish I learned In College Is The Price Tag on a College Education Really Worth it? As I slide into the seat of my first class of the day, I look around at the faces of the students who have all come prepared with their single subject composition books, save the earth nalgene bottles, and hands neatly folded on their laps as they all sit around the group discussion table. It is 9:04 on a Thursday and these people are genuinely excited to be in this class, my first indicator that this is the wrong class for me; INTD240, Women’s and Gender studies. This is a writing intensive class that the school requires something equal or similar to in order to graduate. I prepare myself, put my phone on vibrate out of respect, and place my belonging on the floor beside me, only imagining what the topic of discussion for this class is today.
There are rules and regulations which students cannot break, because there will be punishments for their actions. There is a time schedule which they have to go by, there is also a social structure, which they must maintain. This is beneficial because a student at a young age learns the basic rules of work, and life, such as don’t be late, and not to procrastinate. However the main focus for most high school students is the acceptance of peers and not what they are supposed to be doing. This is where student must come to terms with what and who they are, and what they will become, and there is always someone who wants to be better than other students.