First Lesson Essays

  • First Grade Reading Lesson Plan

    729 Words  | 2 Pages

    Lesson focus: Reading Class level: Primary 1 Learning Outcomes: By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to: 1. Use visual cues to infer and predict episodes in a children’s narrative 2. Use knowledge of the episodic sequence in the book to infer and predict repeated action in a children’s narrative 3. Recall the sequence of episodes in a children’s narrative Beginning stage of lesson Description of lesson Teacher and pupils discuss the picture and title Teacher creates interest in the book

  • Reflection On My First Lesson

    825 Words  | 2 Pages

    While teaching my first lesson, there were several things I did well and I’ll admit several things I need to work on. During the lesson, I feel I did a good job in using the proper terminology we had taught the students the day before class. I felt they needed it because they all looked a bit scared when I started teaching without the refresher. I also feel I did a good job of going over the tools they need and explaining the steps in simple enough terms for them to follow. I feel one major

  • Self-absorption in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

    1097 Words  | 3 Pages

    will give you and the ability to keep that life going as long as possible. This type of thinking, however, can catch up to you in the end. The lesson that self absorption is the means of self preservation is one that is taught to the reader, and more specifically to Marlow, gradually as the story progresses. The very first lesson in this thought process comes very early in the story. I occurs as Marlow is going over in his mind exactly how he came to get the opportunity to be

  • White Fang

    666 Words  | 2 Pages

    lair where the she-wolf can lie down to give birth to her cubs.  Another famine comes upon the land when the cubs are still young and all of them die except for a small gray cub.  The gray wolf was the strongest of his pack.  His first lesson in life was the lesson of the wilderness, "Eat or be eaten, kill or be killed." The cub and it's mother leave One Eye and travel into an Indian village.  The she-wolf is instantly recognized by an Indian named Gray Beaver. She answers to the name of

  • Behavior Management Reflection Paper

    1225 Words  | 3 Pages

    Self Observation: Behavior Management Dimension For this assignment, I filmed myself teaching a mid-unit Math lesson on ‘money’; the lesson included reviewing the goal and scales of learning, a smart board review of the concept and a hands-on activity. I chose to assess myself with the Behavior Management portion of the CLASS assessment tool because I feel that as a beginning teacher, this is the area that I wish to improve most upon. I believe that successful and effective classroom management

  • TNTP Essaya

    1688 Words  | 4 Pages

    specifically in a high need school? What challenges do you expect raising student achievement in your classroom and what experiences have prepared you for overcoming these challenges? Knowing these challenges, what steps will you take to prepare for your first year of teaching in a high need school, and why? Growing up, I lived in a home where Portuguese and English were used interchangeably. Upon beginning public school, I was labeled an “English Language Learner” before I had a chance to show what I knew

  • A Lesson About Life in The Stolen Party

    890 Words  | 2 Pages

    A Lesson About Life in The Stolen Party In Liliana Heker’s story, "The Stolen Party," the young child Rosaura is hurt because she is a victim of a class structure which keeps the rich on the top and people like her and her mother at the bottom of society. By the end of the story Rosaura will have learned a very important lesson in class structure which, because it is so traumatic for her, she will carry with her for the rest of her life. The first evidence we see which supports the claim

  • My Practice Teaching Experience

    912 Words  | 2 Pages

    Early on in my Block A experience I realised that a major contributing factor to the success, or otherwise, of my lessons was the pace. This is an area that I have looking at improving over the course of my Block A placement. The advice given by Gererd Dixon (2011: Online) is that; ‘One of the hardest things for new teachers is to inject pace and purpose into lessons while recognizing the needs of slower learners in the class.’ Working out the correct pace for my classes did prove to be a struggle

  • The Literary Merit of A Lesson Before Dying

    1124 Words  | 3 Pages

    The Literary Merit of A Lesson Before Dying Ernest Gaines was born during the middle of the Great Depression on January 15, 1933. He was the oldest of twelve children. At the age of nine Gaines worked as an errand boy on the River Lake Plantation, the same plantation his book A Lesson Before Dying was set in. Gaines was raised by his Aunt Augusteen Jefferson, much like Grant, the protagonist in the novel, was raised by his Aunt Tante Lou. At the age of fifteen Gaines rejoined his immediate family

  • Lesson of the Evils of Liquor

    1626 Words  | 4 Pages

    wanted to teach his 9th grade class a lesson about the evils of liquor, so he produced an experiment that involved a glass of water, a glass of whiskey, and two worms. "Now, class, observe the worms closely," he said, putting a worm first into the water. The worm in the water writhed about, happy as a worm in water could be. The second worm he put into the whiskey. It writhed painfully, and quickly sank to the bottom, dead as a doornail. "Now, what lesson can we derive from this experiment?" the

  • Lessons of Equality, Understanding, and Tolerance in Disney’s Pocahontas

    1233 Words  | 3 Pages

    Lessons of Equality, Understanding, and Tolerance in Disney’s Pocahontas Introduction [1] The children’s movie Pocahontas is an attempt by Disney to promote racial tolerance, equality, and understanding. Most of this movie is not historically accurate, yet an important message can still be learned using the characters from long ago. The first contact scene between Pocahontas and John Smith (0:28.34) demonstrates the importance of racial tolerance by showing strengths and weaknesses in

  • Comparing Family in Breathing Lessons, Homesick Restaurant, and Accidental Tourist

    2902 Words  | 6 Pages

    Family Instability in Breathing Lessons, Homesick Restaurant, and Accidental Tourist The perfect, suburban family has become a prominant theme and stereotype in American culture.  Families from the works of Anne Tyler represent the exact opposite of this cultural stereotype.  None of Tyler's novels contain families with faithful, domestic wives, breadwinning husbands, and 2.3 well-behaved, perfect children.  Tyler kills this misconcieved stereotype in Breathing Lessons, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

  • Personal Experience: Microteaching Session

    1208 Words  | 3 Pages

    Classroom we are required to produce a lesson plan as well as to conduct a Microteaching focusing on listening and speaking skills. During the process of completing this assignment, there are so many beneficial experiences that I have gained. Based on the microteaching conducted, I have identified some strengths and weaknesses that I can use to improvise my skill in teaching for future purposes. Before the microteaching session, we have to produce an individual lesson plan that suits a topic within the

  • Lessons Learned at Summer Camp

    1511 Words  | 4 Pages

    Lessons Learned at Summer Camp Gazing up at the clouds, I thought of all the great times I had been a part of. The whole week had been full of excitement. Every day was a payoff of all of the work put into this experience. "Did it have to end so quickly?" I wondered to myself. "Just think of next year", I said to comfort my disbelief, "Its going to be ten times the fun. I'll make sure of that." After what seemed like years of waiting, the day of camp finally arrived. I hastily packed

  • Narrative- Viola Lesson

    1449 Words  | 3 Pages

    Narrative- Viola Lesson I strolled towards the double glass doors, deliberately kicking at a large, spiky, chestnut pod as I went. It skidded across the concrete and sent three more spike-balls rolling before toppling over the edge of the ramp. Gazing upward through the branches, which were camouflaged by green and brown splotched clumps of large, tear-drop shaped leaves, I could see bits of crisp, blue, autumn sky. I repositioned the strap of my viola case on my shoulder. It's too bad I can't

  • A Lesson Learned Too Late in King Lear

    1181 Words  | 3 Pages

    A Lesson Learned Too Late in King Lear In the first half of the play, King Lear struggles with the problem of authority and the consequences of giving his own authority away.  Lear’s eventual loss of sanity is a result of his ill judgement and unwillingness to part with his power as king.  Yet, the issue of authority is not the only theme that is being dealt with in the play.  King Lear is also about Lear’s search for identity and wisdom in his old age.  The play explores the concept of the

  • Life's Lessons in The Once and Future King

    1094 Words  | 3 Pages

    Life's Lessons in The Once and Future King "The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then -- to learn

  • Self-Reflection

    754 Words  | 2 Pages

    develop and improve such areas. Strength The CELTA Course gives us the opportunity to constantly observe ourselves as well as other English teachers in action and to receive feedback upon our performances. One of the most frequent positive points on my lessons is the use of elicitation. For instance, on my Teaching Practice (TP) 2, my tutor Ricardo pointed out that “[I made] good use of elicitation.” Also, my other tutor Linda, during the tutorial, told me that I have “a variety of elicitation techniques”

  • Inner Conflict in Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying

    1286 Words  | 3 Pages

    Inner Conflict in Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying "They sentence you to death because you were at the wrong place at the wrong time, with no proof that you had anything at all to do with the crime other than being there when it happened. Yet six months later they come and unlock your cage and tell you, We, us, white folks all, have decided it’s time for you to die, because this is the convenient date and time" (158). Ernest J. Gaines shows the internal conflicts going through the mind of Mr. Wiggins

  • Runaway Statues: Platonic Lessons on the Limits of an Analogy

    3244 Words  | 7 Pages

    Runaway Statues: Platonic Lessons on the Limits of an Analogy ABSTRACT: Plato’s best-known distinction between knowledge and opinion occurs in the Meno. The distinction rests on an analogy that compares the acquisition and retention of knowledge to the acquisition and retention of valuable material goods. But Plato saw the limitations of the analogy and took pains to warn against learning the wrong lessons from it. In this paper, I will revisit this familiar analogy with a view to seeing how