...with all types of text, especially the non-fiction text? Making prediction before reading is great because this get our mind running about the text. This way, you are more engage in the text you are reading. By keeping the predictions in mind, we can start to look for clues and details to help us figure out if our predictions are true or not. Imagine you are going to a movie. You read the title of the movie and watched a trailer. During the trailer of the movie, don’t you have some predictions about the movie? For example...
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...aspects learners need to improve on” (Gravells, 2012, p.50), teachers should administer initial and diagnostic assessments to them before or at the start of a course or programme. The results of initial and diagnostic assessments can be used to help learners agree on Individual Learning Plans specifically designed to meet their learning needs. Some learners might have expectations of making rapid progress within a course or programme but unexpectedly experience difficulties due to a lack of personal or functional skills. Initial and diagnostic assessments should help teachers identify problems early relating to their learners’ personal skills. In certain circumstances, results from initial and diagnostic assessment might indicate that some learners do not have the requisite skills to have any realistic chance of progressing within a course or programme and they should be referred to a course or programme which more specifically meets their learning needs. On the other hand, some learners might have very advanced personal skills or abilities in relation to the minimum core and teachers should be able to ascertain which of their learners would need to feel more challenged during the programme and plan different activities to meet the needs of these learners. Results from initial and diagnostic assessments should be used by teachers to discuss and agree realistic targets with their learners...
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...2013 Summary This book is a book of Lesson from General Ulysses S. Grant. It is sharing different aspects of his life experiences that helped him become the leader that he was. He felt that every situation we encounter in life we can take the opportunity to learn from. Not only are we to learn from our rewards but also from our failures. We should seize the chance to learn to make us evolve as a person. As leaders we should be able to plan accordingly. In order to execute goals we have to know the ins and outs of our business. Be able to set a plan into place to complete goals and put together a team that will have the resources and abilities to complete their goals. I. The courage to tell it like it is. Lesson learned is keeping you surrounded by opportunity to learn from our environment. This is the only way for people to learn. If we walked around thinking that we are perfect, would we think we have to learn anymore? I respect when someone is upfront and honest with me. It takes a lot of courage to be able to do that because people get defensive when they feel like you are calling them out on something they did wrong. I do not think I do this often enough because of that very reason. I can be very blunt about things but only with people that work with me on a day to day. These people know me as a person and know that when I tell them something it is because I have their best interest in heart. If you do not know me well I can seem harsh went I am not. Communicating...
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...SPE 226 February 24th, 2015 Abstract Special education teachers are required to accommodate their student’s special need by maintain and adapting lesson plans to meet their individual need and ability. Adapting the lesson plan to their specific need and ability requires observations, meetings and lots of patience. This essay details my experience within a special education classroom, it includes observations and a detailed accommodated lesson plan. This experience provided me with insight on the daily life of a special education teacher, and prepares me for a future career in teaching. Teaching for Exceptionalities Benchmark Students with special needs require adapted teaching methods that vary from those of their peers. These adapted methods stem from detailed observations, that are then included in an adapted lesson plan that is specific to that child’s need. Each adapted lesson plan has a goal, both short term and long term. These goals are then further extended in the form of evaluations and even more observations that are essential in determining a child’s ability in a core area, which then aides the teacher in creating a lesson plan suitable for this child and their need. It is essential that a special education teacher actively observes her students, evaluates what they have learned, and adapts the lesson plan to their need, to create a learning environment that is developmentally appropriate and educationally enriching. The Student Ryan is a 10-year-old,...
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...social worker. Knowing how a child is supposed to develop and notice when there are problems in the child’s development is definitely going to help me a lot. Not only that I am a mother so I love reading all about the different stages, it helps me better prepare! I also enjoyed reading about communicating with parents and how to deal with the parents. Not only will this help me in my future goals but it currently personally helps me. My son has been in child care since he was two months old. Knowing how the teachers are taught to communicate with us as parents helps me understand why they do the things they do. I had my parent teacher conferences a few weeks ago and everything that we talked about just made me think of all the things we have learned in this class. Knowing what I know about being a child care provider it is really going to help me in not only my personal but professional life. The concept that i loved learning and reading about is the three A’s! Attention, Approval and Attunement. I loved learning about what you as a caregiver or even a parent needs to know to accomplish the three A’s. I also enjoyed reading about how to successfully use the three A’s with the infants and toddlers. I think that if all caregivers and parents apply the three A’s their children will grow up happy, health and great self esteem. I believe that me as a mother will be apply to apply the three A’s with my son and hopefully later on in life when I get to work with children. I think the Developmentally...
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...were days where the students seemed uninterested, too talkative, or even worse a blow up occurred and nothing got accomplished. Thankfully the average combined with the positive days outshine my negative days. Through my 3 months of practice teaching, one event stands above the rest as my absolute best teaching experience. Through it I learned so much about teaching and dealing with students. My hope is that the student involved was at least partially changed for the better from the experience as I was. I also hope that there is something in this story that can help inform and inspire you. Being a student teacher is not an easy task. Lots of demands from your mentors must be attained. High expectations are given to you. There are lots of tears that were shed due to remake of lesson plans, grades, and mentors' comments. you must be strong in meeting the hardship of being a student teacher but I do believe that through the hardship I've experienced inside ILS will mold me to be a best teacher someday. All my sufferings will be all worth when I'll be in the real battle field as being a teacher. One thing I could say about my learners is that they are very noisy during our first met. there are times that they did not respect their student teachers, thus, it creates a gap and hate between us (student teachers) and them. As days went by, I've learned that even though they are very stubborn they are still sweet and lovable in their own little ways. To my fellow student...
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...Studies Instruction K-8 fall class. This book provides many different resources I need in order to make my lesson plans beneficial for every student. When planning my lessons I will individually and collaboratively select and create learning experiences that are appropriate for curriculum goals and content standards, and are relevant to learners. I will consider every child’s background and tap into their prior knowledge when preparing my assignments. It is important for me to help my students meet their learning goals through strategic planning and instructions. It is vital for me to be organized and use content knowledge, curriculum, integrative strategies, and pedagogy to develop each lesson. I will intentionally remember my students’ background, and how they learn in order to create the most effective and meaningful instructions possible. Choice Words, allows me to make sure my lessons are flexible to accommodate all my student’s learning styles. I will develop my individual lesson plans that require attention in the areas of interdisciplinary skills, standards of learning, differentiated, assessment,...
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...Lesson Plan Keysha Starks ESL 533N – SEI Advanced Methodologies of Structured English Immersion January 16, 2013 Resource 2: SIOP Lesson Plan humbley Date: January 16, 2013 Grade/Class/Subject: Kindergarten/ math/ Unit/Theme: Shapes CT Standards: K.G.A.2 Student will be able to correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size Content Objective(s): CT.K.3.1.1 Identify objects in the classroom that match examples of the Shapes located on the Love2Learn Wall. Language Objective(s): - Student will be able to identify objects that are 2d located around the classroom to match the shapes on the fun wall. Students will identify the following shapes triangles, squares, circles, hexagons, ovals, rectangles by engaging in talk shape with a partner and drawing in my “Just Shape Me Journal”. English Language Learners 2.2-1 B.c(prek -2) join in group response at appropriate time 2.23 B.a(prek-2) make inference from visuals 2.2-2a.c(prek-20 develop vocabulary 2.2-3.Ci.(prek-2) engage in discussion with peers Key Vocabularytriangles, squares, circles, hexagons, ovals, rectangles, | Supplementary MaterialsSmart boardLove2Learn WallVelcro board and laminated pictures of items in the classroom for teacher use during carpet timeLaminated 3x5 card with shape on front and name on back Yellow “Just Shape Me Journals” according to each student levelPencils | SIOP Features | Preparation |...
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...Teacher Interview and Observation on Lesson Implementation Theresa Flournoy University of Phoenix/Axia College EDU 310 At 1:00 p.m. I entered into Evoline C. West Elementary school on Thursday, July 12 2012 for an interview with Mrs. Yolanda Lawrence. As I entered the classroom, I was greeted by Mrs. Lawrence, the head teacher in this classroom. Mrs. Lawrence has no assistant at this present because of it being in the summer. After I entered into the classroom, the entire class welcomed me with “hello Ms. Flournoy”. It made my day to see all of those smiley faces greeting me. This was a 2nd grade classroom which consisted of 17 students of which 8 were girls and 9 were boys. This interview and observation was a total of 2 hours long. During the observation of Mrs. Lawrence classroom, I noticed how the students flocked under Mrs. Lawrence as she started reading one their favorite books before they did their afternoon lesson. For some reason I got an excitement about doing this interview. My Observation of a Lesson Plan Once the story was over, Mrs. Lawrence had the students to go back to their desk because Math class was getting ready to begin. Mrs. Lawrence reminded the student that they would continue with their study on multiplication as they have been doing for the past two weeks. Mrs. Lawrence listed math objective on the chalk board and manipulative on the back table. When the lesson begins, the students are in a large group and then they moved to...
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...Story Element Lesson Plan 1 Story Element Lesson Plan Heather Sines ECE335: Childrens Literature Instructor: Karen Foster April 21, 2015 Story Element Lesson Plan 2 Story Element Lesson Plan Grade: Preschool Ordinary Mary’s Extraordinary Deed By Emily Pearson Lesson Plan: Monday Subject: Beginning, Middle, and End Story Element Grade: Preschool, ages 3-5 (covering Kindergarten Common Core ELA Standards) Topic: Being Nice Duration: 1 School day (Monday) Story Element Lesson Plan 3 Goals/Objectives: | We will Identify the parts of a story using the beginning, middle and end of a “being nice” themed multicultural book. The children will be able to divide a story into the beginning, middle and end, and be able to identify the settings in each. Within identifying the settings and the sections of the story, they will be identifying how one person’s kindness can affect another’s. | Standards Covered: | Reading Standards for Literature K-5 Kindergarten-With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in the text.-Identify characters, setting and major events in a story.-Ask and answer questions about unknown words in...
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...Reflection During this course my image of children with learning disabilities has empowered me to reach out to the community and any other outreach programs that can help children with learning disabilities. I have always considered all children to having a chance at education with or without a disability but I have learned through this course if children with learning disabilities had the equipment and proper accommodations they will have the same chance and great opportunity in education as anyone else. The new understandings I have considered in terms of knowledge about learning differences are everyone, especially children, learns differently regardless of a disability but if the child has a disability we as teachers and parents have to accommodate to their needs of learning. For example, a normal child may not comprehend the lesson unit by me elaborating on it speaking orally they may understand it better in an outline. A child with a disability may need the same but a little more, I may have to place their work on picture cards or let them listen to audio and most of all of the lesson unit written down to a similar pattern of my normal unit lesson plan. Course Reflection During this course my image of children with learning disabilities has empowered me to reach out to the community and any other outreach programs that can help children with learning disabilities. I have always considered all children to having a chance at education with or without a disability but I have learned...
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...impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” Woodrow “I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.”- Will smith Throughout my time in the Communication department I have learned many things. However, I feel that one of the biggest impacts I have had within my ungraduated career is the certificate program Conflict Analysis and Resolution. I chose the first quote due to the skills we acquired throughout the program. When I first heard about the program I thought to myself its only 12 credits how hard can this be? Little did I know then, just how much these twelve credits would change my view of life? I feel like my purpose in life is to help others, and how you ask I do not know that quite yet but I am hoping to get that situated before I embark on my next journey in life. The second quote applies to my journey in many ways as well. But all in all I owe it to our great professor Dr. Shailor who as times slips in a little politics and catholic faith. I see how open he is and...
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...Educating the Exceptional Learner SPE-226 Amy Grose December 8, 2012 IEP Lesson Plan Targeted Student: 4th grader 9 years old - Does not do well verbally, therefore cannot grasp the understanding of things in a normal classroom setting. He can follow instructions upon the understanding of the task on hand. His weakness is verbal and all academic subject areas. Student preferred modalities of learning is hands on with little verbalization. Learning Objective: To understand and try to pursue student to use more verbal communication for problem solving. Lesson Title: Problem solving in Arithmetic and Numbers Estimated time to complete: 1 month Lesson objectives: Understanding numbers, and problem solving Concept(s) learned in this lesson: Using calculators, practicing budgeting and learning about types of jobs that require problem solving. |Components |Brief description of lesson |Student grouping (individual, |Materials/Technology | | |activities |paired, small group, whole class, | | | | |etc.) | | |Engagement |Counting, sorting, and collate the |Individual grouping |Stack of papers | |...
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...7E Lesson Plan PART 1: Pre-Planning the Lesson Component 1: Helpers in Your Community/ Grade 3 Component 2: Thursday 5-8pm Component 3: Content Summary I choose to teach this lesson to my students because understanding the importance of our community workers is critical for the students’ acquirement on why we have jobs. Being able to identify them in their local, state and national government status is important as students advance in their future understanding on how they are chosen for their position. By teaching this lesson plan my students’ will gain knowledge on what a community worker means to them and how our society is dependent on the help of our community neighbors and workers, local, state and national. Component 4: Research 1. http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter110/ch110a.html 2. http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/ 3. http://www.ncte.org/lessons 4. http://www.greatschools.org/students/academic-skills/162-the-state-of-civic-education-teaching-the-citizens-of-tomorrow.gs I am competent in teaching this lesson unit to students. Incorporating this topic in the classroom would benefit children as they go through school and through their daily living. The research that I started with was the Texas TEKS, which allowed me to align me lesson with the state standards in which I am suppose to be teaching. Without first choosing a TEKS, I could not prepare my lesson...
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...For my artifact I chose, Choice Words, by Peter H. Johnston. This book is used in Dr. Rodriguez’s EDRE 4821 class. Choice Words, is a book that encompasses how I plan my lessons based on knowledge of subject matter, students, the community, and curriculum goals. After reading this book and doing an activity in Dr. Rodrigues class, I realize how important writing is oppose from speaking directly to the person. Words carry a meaning and as a writer you want the message intended to be understood; not leaving the reader confused. When writing, one must use words that are in the right context and allow the reader to get a visual picture of what is being written. I chose this book because at my place of employment we have a slogan every child, every...
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