Classroom Management, Engagement, and Motivation Western Governors University Task 2 Part A1. Positive Social Interaction Someday I would like to run a second grade classroom. I think that Scenario 2 might work best with my students. The first thing I noticed was that the homework policy was announced and explained to the class, at the beginning of the year. Also, handouts went home to parents explaining the policy.
|Name: Erin |Date: 9/24/12 | Unit 5: 5.04 Take a Breath 1 20 points Taking a Test? Take a Breath Over the next few days, you will be developing a plan to prepare for an upcoming test. You will use the information you’ve learned about learning preferences, learning environments, effective work habits, memorization strategies, and coping with test anxiety. Project Instructions Gather the following materials: The results of your Learning Style Inventory (from Unit 3) Unit 4 assignment: The Design Time: Your Space project Study notes about work habits and distractions, memorization strategies, and coping skills Answer the questions listed below under each of the four category headings. Write your answers in complete sentences.
Standardized Test Students of all ages are getting their number-two pencils sharpened and finest energy drinks ready in order to stay alert and prepared for all the standardized tests they will soon be encountering. For the last 50 years, standardized tests have been a way to measure students academic knowledge. But are standardized tests a proper tool for measuring student readiness? Standardized test are a problem because there are so many different factors that determines how well a student does on the test. Passing a standardized test is a skill that can be taught, but does not truly measure what a student has learned in the classroom; therefore standardized tests should not be used as a tool to measure students knowledge because students have more to offer than just filling in bubbles.
By posing many questions to the murderers, Macbeth is helping to persuade them. A question can substitute for a request, and while a listener is searching for an answer, the speakers can give his own answer to the question. The listener (the murderers) is more likely to accept it than if it were given as an assertion. Lastly, most of Macbeth’s questions also have suggestions in
Another example is you should know where a good place to study and relax in peace other than your room, like the library or the student lounge. The second tip on surviving the first week of college is to look and view all your textbooks and syllabus your professor provides for you. Looking over your textbooks is a good tip because you have to make sure the books match with the right classes. Viewing the entire syllabus your professors provide for you shows you important dates. For example when exams are, what you are doing in class if you miss a day, quizzes and tests.
A year-round, students have been doing their homework. When summer is approaching, teachers began to think of what type of homework/project to assign to the students. When assigning those homework’s, teachers should think about the major question: What’s the point of a break in the school year when homework is assigned? Like Inshan Alli from the Junior Scholastic article, I believe that kids’ need time to relax, play and spend time with their families. During the school year, students don’t have time to spend with their families or relax, because they have tons of homework in their face.
Preparing for success in school might seem like an easy enough task, but when the responsibility finally falls on the student, he or she is often caught off guard. Dictionary.com defines preparation as a way “to put in proper condition or readiness” (Dictionary.com Unabridged. 2013), and by following exactly as the illustration suggests, a student can take charge of their success. A student could begin this task by first gathering information about upcoming courses. Often times, students rely on having everything provided for them within the first week of their course, when in fact most teachers expect for a student to
Biology, chemistry, physics, and the interpretation of graphs are now all tests in the science area of the ACTT. "Knowing everything about the main sciences is a key skill to have to be successful for the rest of your life. Without that knowledge someone would be lost," a professor who teaches English at Stanford University claims. The newest part of the ACTT is the social studies section. This test will have students answer questions about the history of the US, European history, the history of their own state as well as the history of their own city.
If the majority of the kids are doing good on the test it shows the they are learning from the teacher. ( NCLB source 2 pg. 4 The test will also show if the teachers are teaching the kids what they need to learn for the test to do good on it. It shows if the kids are actually paying attention. If the kids are paying attention in class they will do good on the test.
Davian McEwan Cynthia Fontaine Dean Foundations 19 October 2012 Behavior during Exam There are different ways people chose to take exams, most people study ahead so they can be well prepared for the test and then you have others that wait till the night before to study. Still are differences in how they both scores on the test, people who study days or even weeks ahead for the test can do worse than the person that only studied for that night. Why is that? People can suffer from anxiety, and anxiety is a huge thing. With anxiety people will start thinking too hard, forget the material get worried and fail the exam.