...Running head: Administrator and Teacher Interview Administrator and Teacher Interview Administration and Teacher Interview I remember sitting in the Principles Office one day during recess unsure of why she would want to meet with me. My knees were knocking, my palms were damp, and you could sense the amount of fear that was present in my body. As Ms. Bagakowski called me into her office she reassured me that this was a friendly visit and not one of discipline. She wanted to ask if I would be okay with moving into a different class because I was struggling in my current class. As I look back now on the experience I understand more of the reasons behind the switch and I also understand the role that both my Teacher and the Principle play in the school. The assignment this week was to interview both an Administrator and a Teacher and compare and contract their roles in the education system. I like that you used a personal example. When I went into Ms. Vance’s office I was quickly reminded of the fear I felt waiting for Ms. Bagakowski. Ms. Vance is the Director for Madison Christian Children’s Center in Phoenix, Arizona. As I began the interview Ms. Vance expressed her passion for children and how she became the director of Madison Christian Children’s Center. It wasn’t until she was mother that she really found her true calling to be a Teacher. She ran her own daycare from him and after her children were old enough to attend Preschool she went to work...
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...and Teacher Interview | Julia Deaton | Christine Kirchner | Edu 310 | 11/3/2012 | For my administrator and teacher interview I chose to interview Donnie Drew from Commerce High School where I live here in Georgia and Amberly Neese an English teacher here at Grand Canyon University. I chose Mr. Drew to interview first and for my administrator because he is an educator that I have looked up to since a very young age. I chose Mrs. Neese because she is the first teacher I have encountered here at GCU so far who has truly made a long, lasting impression on me as a person. Based on Mr. Drew and Mrs. Neese’s responses a few things were actually very similar. In fact, the answers that were similar are that; they both are educators who have a master’s degree; they both would recommend teaching only to people with a passion for it. They are also similar because they both have fellow teachers in their families, they both live in the communities they teach in, and both believe the greatest benefit of teaching is being able to influence and help children. Out of both of my interviews with Mr. Drew and Mrs. Neese only a few things stood out in stark contrast. These responses were; Mr. Drew has been an educator for almost 50 years while Mrs. Neese for almost 20, Mr. Drew began teaching because of a love of young people and sports, Mrs. Neese because of a love of children, helping people and because she wanted to be a good influence unlike some of her past teachers. I learned...
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...of each student as well as to the success of the teacher. It is something that I find to be one of the most important aspects of becoming a teacher and having my own classroom. The goal of classroom management is to create an environment in which every child succeeds. As a teacher, I would need to be able to anticipate my students’ actions before they happen, handle situations that do arise, and prevent them from happening again. In order for me to be able to be able to anticipate what a student will do, I need to know my students very well. It is crucial to learn about each one of my students and understand what may cause them to be upset and act out. If a student is gifted and they tend to...
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...teaching important facts. Some teachers do not feel their students need to know what was taught back in the day. According to Charles J. Sykes, “In a 1990 survey of college seniors, 42 percent couldn’t name the dates of the War Between the States within half a century” ( Sykes, 4). Why don’t our teachers care anymore about teaching about important events or even science? Many of them have said it is because they just are not useful facts. I would have to disagree. I believe that you should know the background of this country you live in. I think students need to be taught about our founding fathers. I fear for our future generations. The school systems are dumbing our students down and they are too worried about how the students are feeling than what they are learning. So the question we are all asking teachers along with the school system is, “Why are we allowing students to be dumbed down?” How are we going to elect a president in the future who never had a background in math, science, or most importantly, history? Our future generation does not know what we were taught when we were in school. Some public schools have even removed certain subjects because they are not necessary or the school cannot afford them. Can we put a price tag on education? I would hope not. I think principals and teachers need to step up a notch and really focus on the learning aspect of school and not just the social and psychological part of school. The first door I am going to look at is the duties...
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...Unit 2 Business Resources I have gained an internship at my school, and I will spend 6 weeks supporting the human resources department. Currently the most experienced member of the human resources department, is away on long term sick leave. The school is looking to make sure I can help maintain its ability to recruit the right staff and control their financial and non-financial resources. Task 1 Describe the recruitment documentation used in your selected organisation. Specific Job- Teaching Job Job Description Once it has been decided that a vacancy exists the first document that would be needed is the job description. The job description would be needed just in case it need to be changed. The description is the document that gives you a detailed description of the job, what the job entails and any other information that you would need to know about the job. The job description is an important document because tells you specifically what you will be doing, for instance the first thing you would see on the job description would be the job title so you know exactly what you are going to be doing if you get the job, so for the teaching vacancy it would say Science Teacher. The document also tells you who you will be accountable to and who you will be accountable for so applying for a job such as a teacher you would be accountable to the head teacher but you would be accountable for the students because you would be teaching them and they would be underneath your supervision...
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...Unit 2 Business Resources I have gained an internship at my school, and I will spend 6 weeks supporting the human resources department. Currently the most experienced member of the human resources department, is away on long term sick leave. The school is looking to make sure I can help maintain its ability to recruit the right staff and control their financial and non-financial resources. Task 1 Describe the recruitment documentation used in your selected organisation. Specific Job- Teaching Job Job Description Once it has been decided that a vacancy exists the first document that would be needed is the job description. The job description would be needed just in case it need to be changed. The description is the document that gives you a detailed description of the job, what the job entails and any other information that you would need to know about the job. The job description is an important document because tells you specifically what you will be doing, for instance the first thing you would see on the job description would be the job title so you know exactly what you are going to be doing if you get the job, so for the teaching vacancy it would say Science Teacher. The document also tells you who you will be accountable to and who you will be accountable for so applying for a job such as a teacher you would be accountable to the head teacher but you would be accountable for the students because you would be teaching them and they would be underneath your supervision...
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...February 10, 2013 Motivating Teachers In any work environment one of the most important things to learn about human relations is how to motivate people to do things. One of the most obvious objectives in a job is pay, but there are other motives in the line of work they chose. School environments differ from business environments by their objectives. In a school environment, the product that is to be constructed is the knowledge that students will gain. School leaders seek to motivate their teachers in order to motivate students to become successful learners. The projected outcome in a school environment is that all students became successful learners. I have worked in my school for nine years. During this time, I have worked for two different principals and worked with a variety of teachers. I have worked with different personalities and I have witnessed what motivates people to do what they do. I have witnessed teachers who were motivated by the results of their students’ progress. Some teachers were simply there for the paycheck and did not seek to further challenge their students’ academic abilities. In our current situation, we have been working with a new principal and counselor for two years now. This change took some time for everyone to adjust. Our former principal was goal driven, respected, and was very convincing and motivating when speaking of achieving goals for the school. His approach to motivate teachers was different than our current...
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...Unit 2 Business Resources I have gained an internship at my school, and I will spend 6 weeks supporting the human resources department. Currently the most experienced member of the human resources department, is away on long term sick leave. The school is looking to make sure I can help maintain its ability to recruit the right staff and control their financial and non-financial resources. Task 1 Describe the recruitment documentation used in your selected organisation. Specific Job- Teaching Job Job Description Once it has been decided that a vacancy exists the first document that would be needed is the job description. The job description would be needed just in case it need to be changed. The description is the document that gives you a detailed description of the job, what the job entails and any other information that you would need to know about the job. The job description is an important document because tells you specifically what you will be doing, for instance the first thing you would see on the job description would be the job title so you know exactly what you are going to be doing if you get the job, so for the teaching vacancy it would say Science Teacher. The document also tells you who you will be accountable to and who you will be accountable for so applying for a job such as a teacher you would be accountable to the head teacher but you would be accountable for the students because you would be teaching them and they would be underneath your supervision...
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...excitement that I had as a child to go to Disney, is the same excitement I am experiencing now about go to the Reggio Emilia. I have studied the Reggio Emilia approach many times in my education classes, and still get blown away by how magical this approach is. This is why I would be ecstatic to be able to experience this approach first hand. The philosophy behind this outstanding approach that encourages students to learn from their experiences, peers and environment. They believe that a child is driven by curiosity and imagination, takes responsibility for their own learning, listen and is listened to, need to love and be loved, and is valued. Their image of the child is one of the six main factors that are inherent to this approach. The other five factors to this approach are; expressive arts, progettazione, community and parent-school...
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...to manage and save it. Because of the lack of outside world knowledge, high school should shift to a more practical and individualized curriculum. It would benefit the high school students to learn more practical things because, they need to learn the everyday tasks that are required as adults. When students graduate, most if not all do not know how to balance a checkbook, manage a bank account, or even know how to budget. They need to be taught how to resit the never ending urge to buy something they know they do not need. A money management class will teach them how to be responsible with their money and teach them the benefits of saving. If I had of learned these tools while in high school, I would most likely have a car and my license by mid summer. But because I lack in these traits I will have to save and wait until next march to drive. If they are taught these things they will not have to face the burden of feeling and being unprepared for life. By teaching them time management there would be fewer mistakes made. They would have the proper time to be able to process their thoughts, and write them down for them to be understood. There would be less errors because they are not rushing to get it done at the last minute. I know I myself have a huge problem with time management. I will go to class come home and think I have enough time to watch tv,and relax until it was time to do some homework. Then after find out its going to take all day to do my assignment. Sometimes...
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...several instances where I have seen culture take a prominent role in the classroom. There is one instance in particular that was striking that I will be narrating and discussing in this paper. Before I discuss the nature of what happened, I would like to discuss the demographics of the classroom. The room that I am in is a 1st grade classroom with about 32 students. This is a diverse classroom with about half of the students being Caucasian, ¼ being Asian or Mung, ⅛ being Hispanic, and there are only 3 African American students. There are a handful of ELL students in the classroom who come from refugee camps and barely speak English....
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...teacher’s way. Whatever teachers say is right and the students must learn to listen to them. The teachers are in full control of the classroom, prohibiting the students to think in their own style. Both the teacher and student must obtain a different, more effective style of teaching and learning. In my school Science class, I had a teacher who believed entirely in the banking method. He would deposit information...
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...I have known Schoenborn for about five months now and his experience as a teacher exceeds the normal expectations for a high school teacher. In the past few months of this school year, we have discussed topics of Literature in all lights to fit everyone’s preference of learning in preparation for the exam at the end of the school year. Schoenborn as a teacher understands that he himself has one voice. That he can only shed Literature through what he knows. So he tries to invite those that understand literature in a different light and did something with it. In the second month of the school year, he invited an author who self publishes his works to the world. We as students got to learn his opinion on how to write stories. Got to learn how he decides the plot, how he writes...
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...My name is Yolanda Briones , I am Mexican and I’m 17 years old. If anyone would ask me how I would describe myself, I would say kind, hardworking and humble. I don’t really understand the history of our world and all the problems or differences some countries have against others. I think we are all equal, and we all have the same value. I treat everyone the same way. I don’t care in what conditions they were raised in or if they are poor or rich. I was raised by a Mexican mother, she thought me all I know, and thanks to her I’m the person I am today. We were not economically happy, we didn’t have a huge and fancy house, but she always tried her best and hardest to get my brother and me everything we needed, not the things we wanted, but the things we needed, which are the ones that are really important, she would say. She always told me “You are a little person, and maybe you can think that you are just -one more- , on this entire world, but you can be gigantic if you want to, you can make the difference everywhere you go, and please don’t look for wealthy, look for your happiness ‘’ .And that’s what I’m trying to do, I am looking for my happiness. A few years ago, I found out my happiness is helping people, in every way I can. That’s why my dream career is always been; a doctor or a teacher. Doctors save lives, and teachers help us build them. I had excellent teachers few years ago, many of them have really inspired me to be better, they have had a great effect on me, with...
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...future teacher it is important to be able to understand the physical, cognitive, and emotional changes that students are going through. Teachers must be versed in the basis of all areas of development. Teachers have a huge responsibility to give their students a positive, enlightening classroom in which they can blossom physically, cognitively, and emotionally. A teacher that understands their students’ physical development may find it easier to identify a possible cause to a problem a child is having in school. Understanding the stages of cognitive development is of the utmost importance. Knowing a child’s starting point is essential for a teacher so they can plan the right way to help move the child through their zone of proximal development. It is a teacher’s job to promote thinking abilities in their students. By asking higher order questions a teacher will help in their cognitive development. A child’s development of personality and self-esteem is important to not only their schooling, but in their whole life. A teacher can help their students establish this personality and give them multiple ways to develop their sense of self. My purpose in this child study is to be able to analyze an individual child’s physical, emotional, and cognitive development and determine how the changes she is going through will affect her learning and behavior. Making my decision on which child to study was not an easy one. I sat with Kimberly Mach, a sixth grade language arts teacher at Memorial...
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