Once the students seemed to understand their task and began working diligently, Miss Walker called the first reading group back to the reading table. During this process, the first example of classroom management takes place. As the reading group was making their way back to the table, 2 boys pretended that they were going to join the group. However, when Miss Walker looked at them, they took their seats and continued working. Miss Walker chose not to comment on this behavior.
Chapter Eight Response While reading chapter eight in Teaching Student Centered Mathematics: Grades 3-5 by John A. Van de Walle and LouAnn H. Lovin, I had a few moments of clarity: firstly, my understanding of spatial sense and its importance in the classroom was deepened. Secondly, Van Hiele’s model was introduced and explained extensively. Lastly, my eyes were opened to the ways in which I can introduce geometry in an appropriate manner to age groups previously not exposed to the subject. Overall, chapter eight addressed the reasons why geometry is a crucial subject in any math classroom and, in addition, provided future teachers with a functional list of activities by means of which to teach geometry.
The company prepared students who wanted to take primarily the SAT, GRE, GMAT, MCAT and LSAT. Although her job was to manage the company’s business affairs, she also began teaching math to students several nights a week. Jessica received training from the company in teaching basic testing skills, and she applied those skills toward teaching the math portion of the exams. She received positive feedback from her students as a conscious and innovative teacher. Jessica felt her teaching experience helped her as she began to prepare for the CPA exam herself.
On-campus classes make it easier to communicate one-on-one with your teacher. If you need any help or just have a question, you can speak to your teacher during class and/or speak to a student in your class. Any assignments that you get can be completed in class, on-campus, or at home, then turned in to the teacher. The books needed for your classes are owned by you, so you can make notes and highlight the text in the book if you need. It is harder to procrastinate while taking classes on-campus because you begin the homework in class (most times) and have the teacher to notice if you did or did not submit your assignments.
Terms like assertion, thesis, and elaboration seemed like a foreign language. I managed to slide by in English with good grades, but I never seemed to enjoy it. My junior year in high school changed my perspective on all of this. I showed up for my first day of junior year, not excepting things to be any different. My teacher stood in the front of the room and read the class syllabus in the same monotone voice while my classmates and I drifted in and out of consciousness.
My greatest accomplishment is I made it to high school. It wasn't easy for me because I never did very well in my classes, especially on tests. I was so afraid that I wasn't going to pass my End-Of-Grade tests to get out of elementary school, much more nervous about middle school, but somehow I did it. I remember when the test's started at the end of the year I was so stressed and worried that I wasn't going to pass. It all started in 6th grade when we had End-Of-Grade tests.
Classroom Observation #2 School: Drabek Elementary Teacher: Mrs. Cashiola Subject: Science Number of students: 24 Date: 09-20-2012 Start time: 10:30 Finish time: 11:30 Total observation time: 1 hr. Grade: 5 How the teacher started the day: Mrs. Cashiol began the class by telling the students to get out their homework that they had been assigned the night before. Each individual student graded their own homework. She then had them get out their science books in preparation for the lessons for that day. After going over the homework and each student finishing grading their papers, she had them turn it in by passing it forward.
Instructors allow the students ample enough time to submit their assignments throughout the week. Students also have enough time to read the materials before the class starts. If students have any questions about the assignments they can e-mail the instructor through the school website and instructor also gives the students a number where they can be reached. In a traditional classroom the students might attend class two days a week and if the student have questions about their homework it will be hard for the instructor to help the student because the instructor might be rushing to get ready for the next class, and the student might be in a hurry to go to work or their next class. The instructors in a classroom setting also have office hours, e-mail address if the student needs to reach him/her for any questions, and they also can be reached by phone about their assignments.
My college-prep science class used the same book that my sixth grade class used three years priors. Furthermore, many of the teachers were there only because they didn't know what else to do and probably couldn't hold down a real job. I remember the teacher for our "Guidance Class", telling us that he became a teacher because he wasn't smart enough to be an engineer. Apparently he wasn't smart enough to think of any other alternatives either. That was great career advice, thanks a bunch!
By engaging your professor student can develop out-of-the-box thinking techniques that will help them understand the topic in much greater depth and detail. For example, students who are going to office hours, talk to the professor after class, and email questions about things they didn’t understand. They learn more than the average college student and defeat the anonymity of the students. Second, reading every day is the most important thing to do when a student take class. If one student read a head of time, it will be easy to understand when the teachers explain on the