Although there are good resources in place to nurture and challenge students in our schools, the methods of assessment for placement are out-dated. The Nagleri and the Iowa Test of Basic Skills are used, along with EOG scores for grade 3 and above and prerequisite course grades for high school. There is little staff development in gifted education, but each of our AIG teachers are fully certified. In both the K-2 nurturing program and the grades 3-8 content replacement, students use critical thinking skills and real life applications of these
An important reason why I do my work in class is because I want to improve my performance. TRUE 11. If I do poorly on an assignment or a test, it is usually the instructor’s fault. FALSE 12. Effort is more important than natural ability for doing well in school.
Labelling is where a teacher (or another adult) will give a student a name that is in relation to their personality or ability. This can be positive or negative, for example, bright boy or troublemaker. Underachievement can be said to be anything under a C grade for GCSE’s or not meeting your target grade. Some sociologists agree with the statement as they say that students feel that teachers will determine their future. If they are labelled as being ‘stupid’ early on in their career then they will be placed in the lower sets and streams.
Jaime Villanueva PSY 217 Personality Psychology Tuesday Spring 2013 Personality Paper Two: Personality and Emotion Of the theories studied in class so far, I believe that Carl Rogers person centered model theory is the most comprehensive, scientifically testable, parsimonious way of understanding the emotional aspect of personality. My argument is based on the following ideas: people are essentially decent and that human nature is basically compassionate and optimistic. Carl Rogers felt that the natural human states to be fully functioning, but under some circumstances people become delayed in their drive toward self-actualization. People can lose their sense of direction at any time. At the center of Rogers method is the concept of
I always received good grades in elementary school. I had admirable teachers and the work was easy. My teachers were also flexible when it came to turning in work. I thought that middle school would be exactly the same. I was in for a big surprise.
People in such organizations operate in a “win-lose” framework and believe they must work against (rather than with) their peers to be noticed. An overly competitive culture can inhibit effectiveness by reducing cooperation and promoting unrealistic standards of performance (either too high or too low). I never had to compete with another engineer but sometimes you have to call on a senior engineer for help. You never want that person to out shine you in front of your customer. So you hope your problem isn’t so big that he has to come on
Working class children are told they have the same chances to succeed as everyone else so when they do badly they have no-one else to blame but themselves. Material deprivation means they have little chance of competing fairly. One would suggest that the Marxist view is a little more accurate in its argument as it's very optimistic to say that everyone has equal chance to succeed. The second functionalist concept, one will testing out is Meritocracy. This is the belief that individuals achieve according to their ability and effort.
How about the influence of the teacher? Suppose it just so happened that the teacher in the small class is much better than the teacher in the large class and this is the reason why the students in the smaller class did well. The 'type of teacher' becomes an intervening variable because it was an important factor that was not initially considered by the researcher. Suppose that there were two different types of books used or two different types of curricula used? Suppose it just so happens that the students in the small class happen to be smarter than those in the large class?
A student-to-teacher relationship should remain just that; the teacher should claim a higher position than the students. When a teacher crosses the line, and begins to befriend his or her students, what will be the downfall? My 1st hour AP English high school teacher suffered this exact circumstance; she disregarded her authority for a more intimate, peer-to-peer relationship to her students. She would allow them to come in late, forego assignments, and socialize more in class. For the first few weeks this seemed to work well; she was adored by her students, the class went smoothly, no one complained.
Sanford and Evertson (1981) have similarly argued that classroom management is a major difficulty for “teachers and administrators in junior high schools” (p. 34). Offering a more positive learning environment in the classroom is not simple and research studies do not fail to reveal that the fundamental component in succeeding in managing it is in the teacher's capacities to oversee and direct the class.