The learning environment in my classroom starts off on a positive note, continues on a positive note, and finally finishes on a positive note. Students enter my classroom and are greeted at the door, I shake their hand and tell them either good morning or good afternoon, depending on what type of day it is. At the beginning of the year students are hesitant to do this, but after that first day I explain to them that in the professional world a handshake says a lot about a person, and often sets the tone for either their conversation or interview. We discuss how a handshake should be firm but not crushing, have good eye contact, and students should smile and say good morning or good afternoon. Sometimes students have had a horrible day, …show more content…
Students are required to learn the Iowa Standards, and are tested throughout the year to make sure they are meeting these standards. If students are not meeting the standards, we meet with these individuals to discuss where they are deficient at and come up with individualized goals to help them become proficient at the Iowa Standards. I do everything I can in my classroom to ensure that my students are reaching and exceeding these goals. In order to do this, there are many formative assessments that I utilize in my classroom to ensure that students are learning the material. Some students are embarrassed at letting their peers know that they do not understand the material being presented. Throughout our daily lessons students have the opportunity to use their chromebooks to tell me that they do not understand. Student’s chromebooks come equipt with a red and green light on the outside of their lid. Students can turn these lights on and off at a touch of a button. If students do not understand the material I am going over they can turn on the red button, and if the student understands the material being presented they can turn on the green button. This will let me look around the room quickly to see if students are understanding before we move on. This doesn’t mean that I stand at the front of the room all of the time. During instruction I circulate around the room helping students with examples that we go over in class. I can catch any mistakes that students are making, or spend some extra time with students who do not understand the material. Sometimes I have students helping their neighbor when I am not able to make it over to the student who is struggling. These two methods allow me to help students who are struggling in class each
My greatest area of strength in assessment literacy is during the test administration, because I believe I do a wonderful job providing directions for the students, I monitor students and watch them to make sure they are not cheating with each other, and I make sure the testing environment is conducive to high achievement. When my tests are distributed to my students, I make sure to read the directions of each section of the students and ask my students if they need any more clarification on the section directions. If students forget the directions while the test is taking place, I make it a point to clarify for them in private and then announce to the class a reminder for each section. This usually happens when I monitor my students during the testing session. I make sure that I am visible and mobile inside my classroom. I want my students to do well on tests and gain confidence that they understand the concepts being tested, but I want my students to be self-motivated and self-reliant and to not look to their partners for the answers.
The intention of this written essay is to demonstrate an understanding of my views on reflection and the issues surrounding reflective practice. It is based on nursing skills that I used during my practice placement, most importantly reflecting on the professional value of privacy and dignity.
Writing a decent essay is as tedious, as nerve-racking, and as strenuous as constructing a layer cake from scratch. First you have to decide that you are going to tackle this feat, and that can be your biggest challenge, motivation. Then you must figure out what kind of cake batter you want to use. Collect all the ingredients to mesh together well, making one layer at a time. You throw all the layers together hoping that somehow they will come together to form a nifty design, but they don’t immediately. For now it is just a leaning tower of cake parts. So you start revising and modifying, adding toothpicks, trying to rectify the lean of the cake on one side. You coat the whole damn thing in icing, attempting to make it look better, but the first coat always turns out like a child’s Play-Doh experiment. Then you begin to refine the finite details and to make the stylistic upgrades. And finally, after hours and days, gray hairs and nausea, behold, a somewhat presentable and hopefully edible layer cake emerges.
As I chose to take this class and better my writing skills at a college level, I knew this class was going to be difficult. With a total of four essays to write I knew I had to be on my game from the beginning. Throughout durations of this class, I have learned how to become more responsible, plan ahead of time, and how to become a better writer. With each mistake made i have been able to learn and improve. An Ad Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Narrative, and an Argumentative Essay are the four papers we had to write for the course.
My portfolio will demonstrate the skills and writing techniques I have developed and honed while taking the course English 1010 at the University of Memphis. Some of the techniques and skills I have learned include how to write with different persuasive strategies on the audience and how to incorporate critical thinking into my work. As well as these skills I have learned how to apply an effective composing process to my writing and have fine tuned my writing abilities. Writing with different styles on different topics has improved the way I approach writing papers. These styles helped me learn quickly, therefore making me a better writer and student at the same time.
I start my writing process with a list of possible topics to research. Once I have chosen a topic, I tend to do some initial research to get ideas for subtopics within the paper. I then start my online document and work on my introduction and, more importantly, my thesis or hook statement. I also add a brief explanation of the topic of each paragraph and proceed to look for evidence such as direct quotes to support the body of my paper. After I have found my evidence, I am able to develop my ideas around it. Usually, if I feel that the paragraph does not fully support my argument or topic, I add in more evidence and continue to build the section. While working on my body paragraphs, I also tend to go back to my introduction
When reflecting on the past semester of English 2328, there are several lessons I feel I have learned which have contributed to the development of my intellect. Throughout this semester, I have repeatedly encountered various lessons that I feel have the potential to advance academically, personally and professionally. I attribute the lessons I have learned to the nature of the assignments and the method of teaching used in this class. To clarify, I feel that I have broadened my knowledge, learned the importance of my personal responsibilities, and learned to interpret differing opinions. Combined, I have recognized that this class has helped me grow, not only as a student, but as an individual as well.
ading annotations have improved the way I read. I am more organized and annotating is a good way to track what I have read. By annotating I remember the information I read longer than when I don’t. All the reading has given me practice annotating and I now annotate all the articles that I get from other classes because this has helped me turn annotating in a habit. The reading that I was most engaged in was Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space by Brent Staples. Brent told his story beautifully and I felt that I identified with Staples because I have faced discrimination myself. I had different reactions/emotions while reading his story and that’s what made it my favorite because if a story evokes strong emotions from your then the author
However, a formative assessment is ongoing and is used to check for students’ understanding throughout a lesson. Both work samples “matched learning objectives” and I was able to identify the students’ strength and weaknesses. I was also able to “analyze assessment data to understand patterns and gaps in learning” to guide my future instructions. In the word problem assessment, I recognized where the student was struggling and gave “effective and descriptive feedback” to address the area that she needs work in.
This semester has taught me a great deal about how to develop my rhetorical, persuasive, and reflective writing skills. In the rhetorical essay, I believe my skills revolving around analyzing evidence to support my claims were improved drastically. My rhetorical analysis introduced me to that a direct correlation between tone and what a writer is trying to prove must be present if an argument is going to be strong and effective. My persuasive essay forced me to focus on my tone and diction, as I chose to discuss a very controversial topic that is currently a major social issue within the United States as of today. Prior to writing this essay, I have never thoroughly considered how my audience might respond to my opinions and the evidence used
Nicole came to my office today. She talked with me about the HTA 355 – online class she is currently taking. Nicole is thinking in dropping it because she does not like the contents of the class. I advised her to talk with her academic advisor before dropping any class. Nicole was not sure how drop this class would affect the required credits needed for graduation. Nicole said she would talk with her academic advisor before dropping this class.
When I first entered the classroom, I didn’t fully understand the concept of communication. I thought it meant just talking to someone, and that was it. I was ignorant of the fact that there was even any communication styles, well fully well-developed styles, not just being “Shy” or “outgoing.” There is a lot that goes into an interpersonal communication style, which I never realized before. I have learned to grow in my communication. I have learned what areas I am strong in, and what areas I need to improve upon in order to strengthen my communication with others.
Not many people of the college student age or younger shake hands anymore. It has become a foreign form of communication and is usually only associated with more professional confrontations. “Few people have any idea how they come across to others in initial meetings, despite the fact that most of us are aware that the first few minutes of that meeting can make or break a relationship”(Pease 64). In the data I recorded, the two people who greeted each other were to males and they seemed like good friends. They were definitely southern country gentlemen from the way they talked. They both smile and shook hands with one asking the other, “Hey man, what do ya know good?” with the other gladly replying, “Not much, you?” Such a simple way of greeting one another and it made both of them aware that they were glad to see each other. Instead of a fri...
In this course I experienced an important change in my beliefs about teaching; I came to understand that there are many different theories and methods that can be tailored to suit the teacher and the needs of the student. The readings, especially those from Lyons, G., Ford, M., & Arthur-Kelly, M. (2011), Groundwater-Smith, S., Ewing, R., & Le Cornu, R. (2007), and Whitton, D., Barker, K., Nosworthy, M., Sinclair, C., Nanlohy, P. (2010), have helped me to understand this in particular. In composing my essay about teaching methods and other themes, my learning was solidified, my knowledge deepened by my research and my writing skills honed.
Assessing student understanding is important but as a teacher you need to provide feedbacks to the students. During my lesson, I allowed the student to ask questions and tried to answer each individual’s answer right away. Since my students are not able to read or write I had to provide feedbacks by verbally.