Scenario Two
a. What circumstances and psychological factors will make it particularly difficult for the principal to discuss Miss Hiller’s problems with her. What situational barriers will need to be overcome before Miss Hiller can feel more accepted in the school. Mrs. Carter, the school nurse, told the principal in confidence about Miss Hiller’s feelings of discouragement and disillusionment with teaching. It will be particularly difficult for the principal to directly approach Miss Hiller with her problems because Miss Hiller may become defensive or embarrassed, and may feel distrust towards Mrs. Carter whom she shared her predicaments in secret. The principal, being a person of authority in school may approach Miss Hiller in the capacity
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Beginning teachers often end up with the toughest assignments. In the case of Miss Hiller, she was becoming very discouraged because she didn’t seem to know how to motivate her students to learn. She is also bothered of the fact that the students didn’t seem to like her, and that she is having problems disciplining her students. Stansbury and Zimmerman (2000) suggests that to make life less stressful for new teachers like Miss Hiller, the principal may reduce the number of students in a beginning teacher’s classrooms, refrain from assigning them the most challenging students, and minimize their extracurricular and committee assignments.
Selecting and training effective support providers. Support providers are experienced teachers who recognized the importance of helping beginners identify and understand their teaching strengths. Minimum requirement for support providers should be teachers who are successful in their own classrooms and articulate about their practice. However, since working with beginning teachers is different from working with students, a good support provider should be temperamentally suited to collegial work with other
The central issue with the general education classroom teachers and Ms. Isabelle is that they were so willing to push Juanita onto Ms. Isabelle and not put any real effort or make changes themselves. That dealing with Juanita was a hassle that they were overall not willing to put up with, and that Juanita be put in special education even though she did not fit statistically wise.
Sister Aloysius, the principal of the school, builds her values upon a foundation of tradition, fairness and control which is an unacceptable and outdated method for presiding over
O’Brien continuously pushes the students to be the best they can be. She does this by not only setting high expectations, but helping and guiding each and every student to reach those expectations. According to “Cognitive Development and Learning in Instructional Contexts,” by James P. Byrnes, Thorndike believed in “other regulation,” not self regulation. He believed that is was up to teachers to help students regulate themselves and succeed. Though this, he recommended that teachers take an active role in students lives. Instead of pushing information at students while they sit and listen passively, teachers must regulate the students and take steps to extend their learning. (Byrnes, 2007, p 12) Mrs. O’Brien may believe the same as well, because she uses these strategies in her classroom during all her lessons. For example, while I was observing this literacy lesson students were completing an individual assignment. Mrs. O’Brien then stated that once the students were done with the assignment, sitting nicely, and quietly, they would be given a heart on their paper and then a skittle to eat and enjoy! Mrs. O’Brien took Thorndike’s idea and strategy by not expecting the children to stay on task, finish their work to completion, and regulate themselves. She kept this in mind and used a form of reinforcement, in order to keep these children regulated and on top of the task at
At the beginning of the case study A Need for Teachers, one will meet Dr. Toni Antellini, who is the Director of Human Resources (HR) for her school district. Dr. Antellini is concerned because she is responsible for finding five suitable candidates to help the high school principals fill their current vacancies for the next academic school year. It is clear to see the depth of research, analysis, and compromises her and the human resource staff members were considering as they explored every possible option to find new educators. As she pondered on how she will circumvent the issue, one of her assistants—Mr. Bill Flanagan—excitedly informs her that his brother and sister-in-law can fill two of the science teaching positions. When Dr. Antellini received applications for Michael and Audrey Flanagan, she
For the spring term, the faculty made changes and Philip got assigned to Miss Narwin’s homeroom class. Things got worse when Philip was assigned to her homeroom as if being in her English class wasn’t bad enough. When Philip got back to school he found out he was assigned to counseling. Philip was furious and still wanted to get out of Miss Narwin’s English class.
The superintendent and principal are stymied in their efforts to reach a compromise as Mrs. Durnitz refuses to change her position that the policy must be followed to the letter. She appealed to the teachers’ association for support when it appeared that the administration and board might not uphold her position. The local newspap...
... challenge of behavioral obstacles that her students may face. As a school psychologist, it will be important and beneficial to have background in behavior modification to make sure my future students will feel comfortable and at ease during my time with them. Also, after many time with Mrs. F I have seen how to affectively managed my time and different ways to handle certain administrative situations that may arise.
For the lead teacher interview assignment, I had the opportunity to sit down with and interview my son’s EC teacher from last year, Mrs. Hamm. Since my son started at the school last year, Mrs. Hamm has helped him in so many different ways. Mrs. Hamm has been teaching for over 20 years from her home state of Pennsylvania and more currently at Mount Energy Elementary School in Creedmoor, NC. Mrs. Hamm has been teaching at Mount Energy Elementary School in Creedmoor, NC for the last 12 years and recently awarded “Teacher of the Year”. Mrs. Hamm, up until this school year, was the main EC teacher for all grades Kindergarten through fifth grade at Mount Energy Elementary School. As of the present school year, the school district made the determination that she was over the acceptable number of students. As a result, they decided to hire an additional EC teacher and assistant to teach grades 3-5th and Mrs. Hamm would teach grades K-2. Mrs. Hamm was the teacher of 18 students until this decision was made, now with grades K-2, she has 9 students in her class.
Rosa Lee Cunningham is a 52-year old African American female. She is 5-foot-1-inch, 145 pounds. Rosa Lee is married however, is living separately from her husband. She has eight adult children, Bobby, Richard, Ronnie, Donna (Patty), Alvin, Eric, Donald (Ducky) and one child who name she did not disclose. She bore her eldest child at age fourteen and six different men fathered her children. At Rosa Lee’s recent hospital admission to Howard University Hospital emergency room blood test revealed she is still using heroin. Though Rosa Lee recently enrolled in a drug-treatment program it does not appear that she has any intention on ending her drug usage. When asked why she no longer uses heroin she stated she doesn’t always have the resources to support her addiction. Rosa Lee is unemployed and receiving very little in government assistance. She appears to
There are many issues and goals presented with those involved in this specific case. To begin, there are several issues with the young girl’s family relationship, more importantly, her mother. With this said, although there are no signs of abuse, and the relationship seems to be positive, her mother shows several signs of neglect (Martinek & Walling, 1995). One example of the present signs of neglect include the young girl attending school wearing dirty clothes and showing a dirty appearance. The young girl is also known to go to school unprepared and does not attend class with the needed materials (Martinek & Walling, 1995). Mothers are known to be nurturing to their kids and always look out for them while providing the necessary care for them. These qualities are not present in the young girl’s mother who may have led to her condition of learned helplessness. Along with the young girl’s family relationship, her relationship involving her teachers are observed as well. Her teachers face several concerns dealing with her behavior and her problem for learning. Particular difficulties and concerns her teachers often come across
If I were in Amber’s situation and I decided to stay at the school I would be persistent with principal in allowing me work with the teachers on instructional matters. Even though he might be against...
In the front of a fourth-grade classroom, there sits the ever-smiling face of a little girl. Each morning, this girl is the first to class, dressed neatly and appropriately, with a backpack full of supplies in order for her to be successful in the classroom. Her homework is always finished, and her parents always make sure she is doing her reading, and trying for excellent grades. The constant efforts of the child in the classroom, and her perpetual kindness to all of her peers has persuaded the teacher into being impressed with the little girl’s work this year. She decides, along with her fellow faculty, to award the child a certificate stating she is the Student of the Month. The child barely makes it through the bus ride home due to
Teachers observe how the peer leaders grab the attention of the students and how they connect, so they can do a better job on enhancing the learning of the students. As the author, Fiske, says,“‘First, teachers should be encouraged to move beyond describing what they see and experience and to analyzing what is happening in their classrooms. Second, teachers should be encouraged to think about problems from an alternative perspective, particularly their student’.” For example, Mrs. James has students in her classroom that struggle with her Grammar assignments. Mrs. James continues to try and find different and unique ways for her students to actually get her lessons. She encourages her highest grade student to re-teach her lesson on Grammar. As the student, Marissa is re teaching the class this information, Mrs. James goes around the class with the role and her notebook. She’s taking notes of how each student is taking their own notes over the lesson, and she puts them all into categories. The categories are based on what kind of learner the students are: Auditory, Kinesthetic, or Visual learners. Mrs. James creates a whole new plan on how she can get reach her students on a different level for their understanding. Teachers have to learn how to deal with specific students in their classroom. Reading a curriculum and instructions aren’t going to
... support staff need to accompany them. I am a self-contained teacher and I know the needs of the students and the behaviors that students may engage in. Over the years of teaching in a self- contained setting with students with moderate to severe cognitive disabilities, along with medical needs I have learned medical procedure and how to deal with behaviors whereas, a general education teacher has no experience in any of these areas.
The deeper issues that you draw your attention are different teaching methods, attitudes towards the children, special needs education and the possibility of escaping a poor a background for both the teachers and the children. An example of the different teaching methods is Mrs. Kay is a very calm, kind, soft and gentle character and lets the children ‘get away with murder’ whereas Mr. Briggs is very abrupt, loud and shouts a lo...