My Teaching Philosophy Statement
Education is defined as the lifelong process of acquiring knowledge, skills, and values through either formal means, such as schooling, or informal means, such as firsthand experiences or vicarious experiences gained through reading books or discussions. Every person that is or wants to be a teacher has his or her own educational philosophy. We all have our own views, methods, and curriculum that we were taught when growing up. A lot of people may have the same teachers in school, but all of them learn different things from that teacher.
As of right now, wanting to be a teacher, I do not have a set philosophy. I do know that I want to teach physical education. Physical education, I think, is a very important part of a student’s curriculum. This helps the students to be more active and to learn about how to keep their body healthy and fit. I think that younger kids should have physical education class every other day or maybe even just two days a week. Older kids should only have physical education class one or two times a week because most of them have a lot of energy when it comes to doing active things. When it is time for them to leave and go back to their classroom they do not want to go. They would rather stay and play. Most people would disagree with me here but if you think about it, this way is better. All kids, young and old, get tired from physical activity. Younger kids you want to be tired, that way they will not be hyper in the classroom and run around causing trouble. Older kids, on the other hand, will try and sleep through class if they get tired. Unlike younger children, they know that they can try to sleep a little bit before getting c...
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...before they take a quiz or something, but down the road, a couple of months later if you give them a pop quiz they probably cannot remember even half of the information. I know that this is true because I used to do this on the day that I would have a Spanish vocabulary quiz. I would sit in my first period class and try and memorize all of the words in the chapter. Most of the time it worked and I got good grades on my quizzes.
Being a teacher, I think, is one of the best professions that a person can go into if they really love kids. People will say to you do not be a teacher because that is the worst job in the world. They are wrong. If they want to sit at a desk all day and do the same things day after day, then go right on ahead because I would rather be the one to try and put the children of our country on the right path to success.
Starbucks has evolved one of the fastest flourishing companies not only in the United States but throughout the world. Starting from 1992, the company's net revenue improved with annual growth rate of 20%, to
Starbucks, the world premier roaster and retailer of coffee since its inception in 1987, operates a global chain of coffee stores today. Though hit hard during the 2008-2009 recession, with the help of the company’s powerful CEO, Howard Schultz, Starbucks endured great changes in their operations and overcome the hardship. The company’s sales accumulated to roughly $12 million dollars in fiscal year 2015 proving that the Starbucks brand and image a sustainable one. With great focus on values, customer service, and social and economic responsibility, Starbucks is excelling as the number 1 coffee retailer today.
Most of the coffee produced by Fair Trade farmers does not sell to Fair Trade buyers. Fair Trade producers sell most of their coffee on the regular market. While this indicates that the global coffee market prices are high, which is good for coffee producers, it also demonstrates a disadvantage for Fair Trade coffee producers. Due to the explicit and implicit costs added to production through Fair Trade compliance, the coffee Fair Trade producers sell in the regular market makes less profit than coffee produced with lower operating costs. When market prices are above the price floor, profit-maximizing firms would benefit to avoid the costs of Fair Trade certification and compliance. Why then do producers voluntarily opt into Fair Trade? A more likely explanation is that producers use the Fair Trade certification to reduce the risks associated with the boom-and-bust nature of coffee production, rather than to benefit from a market that will increase their productive capacity and lift them from poverty. Dragusanu et al (2014) support Fair Trade use, but Claar and Haight (2015) criticize their paper for glossing over the costs of Fair Trade, arguing that it misrepresents the significance of the costs in the production of
The history of child care is a universal practice that has been around for centuries that was only at first usually practiced among relatives. However, over the past decades with the increase in women employment, single parent homes, and the economy mothers and families have begun enrolling their children in child care centers regularly. Consequently, childcares became the norm in society and by the 1990’s 6 million infant and toddlers were in regular non parental child care (Phillips & Adams, 2001). Now that a high demand for child care was needed parents were faced with the issue of seeking suitable care facilities that conformed to certain standards, their budget, values, and other factors that were preferred and fit their needs. Since there are so many different child care types, principles, programs, and etc. that parents can choose from it can be difficult to know what to look for and decide what the best fit is for your child. This paper will briefly go over the cost, variety of child care arrangements, childcare regulations, and personnel qualifications among other factors to consider when choosing proper care for your children and their development.
e number one concern in all business is profit. When someone wonders why Starbucks’ business is so successful they can find their answer in the statistics. In Q3 2015, the total net revenues rose about 18% amassing a new record at $4.9B. The company cited this substantial increase in revenue to obtaining Starbucks Japan and the opening of 1,592 new stores in the last year.1 The company also witnessed a 22% rise in profitability credited to sales leverage.2 Starbucks saw continued growth globally, in the Americas, and the China/Asian Pacific at 7%, 8%, and 11%, respectively, accounting for an increase in customer transactions climbing towards 18M in the U.S. and 23M globally.3 These increases across the board could be accredited for the 21%
The key challenges facing Fair trade arise from the inherent contradictions embedded within this initiative between movement and market priorities. According to them, this divide can be understood as FT being between “alternative civic/domestic conventions rooted in trust, place attachment, and social benefits and conventional industrial/market norms, practices, and institutions ruled by price and efficiency.” Thus there comes to be two analytical approaches: 1) a social movement, or development orientation that sees FT as an avenue for empowering the poor and marginalised based on social justice concerns and 2) a commercial, market, or corporate reform orientation that sees Fair trade as an avenue that largely upholds the values and institutions of the market. (T.Raynolds & Murray, 2007)
Starbucks is the leading retailer for roaster and brand specialty coffee in the world (See Figure 1). It has over 7,500 stores, which are located in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and the Middle East . Besides high quality coffee drinks, Starbucks sells bottled coffee drinks, such as Frappuccino® and Starbucks DoubleShot™.
Starbucks portray a number of issues that may affect the company’s’ growth in the near future. To clearly understand these issues, they will be analysed in order to understand and create recommendations to assist in the growth of a successfully company.
For many years, Starbucks’ most challenging competition came from other coffee house companies such as Caribou Coffee, Tim Hortons, Panera Bread and smaller single proprietary establishments. However, recently fast food chains have latched on to the consumer trend in premium coffee products, and are aiming to gain market share in the market for coffee and coffee-products such as espresso and cappuccino, and with substantial financial, marketing and management resources, they could be very successful (Dockett, 2007).
Customer desire and preference significantly influence the amount of competition each coffee company has with one another, so each company, including Starbucks, is trying to expand menu options and store locations to better serve a greater customer base. Starbucks opened up approximately 30 years ago and has experienced extraordinary growth and success. It is considered the go to coffee shop to work and socialize, corresponding with the company 's marketing approach. Starbucks has aimed to create a place for consumers to stop between work and home, and created concepts for locations that provide customers with a relaxed experience and atmosphere. This tactic has been extremely successful, as evident by Starbucks’ revenue of approximately 18.5
Starbucks greatest development is in its International fragment. The developing markets of Brazil, India, China, South Africa and Mexico with a developing white collar class populace keep on offering huge chances to include new stores and serve more clients. Starbucks has effectively made huge advances into the Chinese market however there still is a considerable measure of undiscovered potential development in these business sectors. Starbucks ought to develop in these developing markets by winning locally Starbucks must stay applicable to the client keeping in mind the end goal to develop in these business sectors, and its administration groups ought to have the flexibility to work inside their general system to tailor store position, present nearby item blend and value focuses to the requirements, ways of life and tastes of every individual business sector/group.
My Philosophy Statement Education is a very important aspect of our lives. It is our education that makes us who we are and determines what we become. Therefore, education is not something to be taken lightly. As a teacher, my goal is to provide the best possible education for my students. Every student is unique and unique.
Through my own experiences, and as enforced by others' opinions in the profession, I have found that teaching is one of the most rewarding careers. Not only are you placed in the position of instructing and guiding children and young adults through the life long learning process, but you are able to give back to the schools and communities which have supported your early education and experiences that opened you up to a bright future. In becoming an educator, I hope to someday share the knowledge and lend the helping, supportive hand that I was once given, allowing students to formulate their own perspectives of the multicultural society and world around them. Teaching is a career I have been interested in pursuing throughout high school, and as my experiences and study in the field expands, I feel that my desire to teach will grow stronger and develop more soundly.
Becoming a teacher has been the ultimate aspiration for myself since the first day I walked into kindergarten. As a very timid student, it was a difficult task transitioning from being with my mother everyday, to being part of a classroom environment full of strangers. However, my kindergarten teacher helped me through this transition smoothly, and adequately. I very quickly learned to love school. Soon after, I knew I would aspire to become a teacher. I would spend countless hours at home with a blackboard, acting as a teacher to my imaginary students throughout my elementary school years.
The definition of the word “educate” is: “to develop the faculties and powers of (a person) by instruction or schooling.” I believe the key word in this definition is “power.” As a teacher, I must find several ways to unleash that power in a child’s mind; I must motivate, inspire, and encourage my students. “Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.” (William B. Yeats)