...By for the most useful information is how children develop. Before I took this class I took introduction to child development and what we have learned in this class concerning development has advanced my knowledge! When I get out of the military I would love to does something with kid’s preferably become a 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...
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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, 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 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...
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...2012-2013 Daily Notes 9/10-9/14/12 --/--/--Monday, 9/10/12 Admin. Bldg - Collected handbooks and revised business cards to distribute to teachers and paraprofessionals. Discussed with Terrence about Sharp school switching our Hatch Smart board from another classroom and removing the big old computers from Ms. Daniel and Ms. Khair. 2pm - attended meeting called by Gladys regarding ECDC. Sharp School Ms. Daniel requested me to check out her classroom arrangement. Suggested - enclosed one side of the Block area so that it will not become a walkthrough traffic, make the Art area bigger so that the children have access to the art supplies, eventually adding quiet activities to the private area such as writing clipboard, books, puppets, a few manipulative toys, mirror, etc, place socket covers, and have small clear bins for the science materials. Ms. Khair asked me to look around her classroom to give her ideas. Suggestions - either unscrew the round table and hide it behind furniture, or use it for sand/water containers, place the sofa/couch in the Dramatic Play area against the wall so it won't fall over when the children sit or trip over, cover all the socket outlets, etc. Ms. Khair also asked about her technology requisition. --/--/--Tuesday, 9/11/12 Malandra Hall - Attended Principals' & Directors' meeting. Gladys needs teachers' names, emails, and site/schools for TSG. ECDC - Attended meeting other Ed. Specialists and PIRT called by the Principal, Dr....
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...Choose a series of lessons you decided to teach in order to promote pupil learning in a particular area of the curriculum. Write a detailed review of the process, explaining your choice of area, detailing what you wanted pupils to learn, justifying the pedagogical choices you made and describing how you implemented them, and finally analysing how successful that learning was. Remember that if you wrote about Maths in Assignment 1, you must write about Language in this assignment and vice-versa. Introduction The Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) places a clear emphasis on numeracy across learning. Mathematics plays a vital role in the progression of people’s lives. It is important to develop children’s ideas and knowledge within maths, and to...
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...• Dramatic play: Pretend to be farmers Notes: Objectives / Dimensions: 14b, 36 Children: All • Library: Read Big Chicken fly the coop Notes: Objectives / Dimensions: 10a, 18a, 18b, 18c Children: All • Multicultural reading: Build a burrito Notes: Objectives / Dimensions: 18a, 18b, 18c Children: All • Muniplatives: Lacing bears Notes: Objectives / Dimensions: 7a, 11c, 11d Children: All • Science: Farm animal sounds Notes: Objectives / Dimensions: 24, 26, 27 Children: All • Math: Sorting toys Description: Mix up blocks and have children to sort them in the correct containers. Notes: Objectives / Dimensions: None Children: All • Blocks: Farm animal play Notes: Objectives / Dimensions: None Children: All • Music and movement: Sing ol McDonald had a farm Notes: Objectives / Dimensions: 8b, 6 Children: All • Art: Draw your favorite animal Notes: Objectives / Dimensions: 7b, 33 Children: All • Multicultural activity: Multicultural painting Notes: Objectives / Dimensions: None Children: All The following lesson plan is through the creative curriculum which specializes in learning through play. This lesson plan is a week-long lesson plan and this is an example of one day’s lessons. The focus this week is about farm animals and we are learning about the farm animals and the sounds they make, what they look like and what farmers do on the farm. The age group that this focus is attended for is toddler-preschool...
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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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...evaluate and analyze how play and creative arts activities enhance and support children’s learning in literacy and numeracy lessons. Qualitative methods were used to gain data that reflect on the implementation of play and creative arts strategies and activities in teaching and the interpretation collected from participants. The three types of tools that used to collect data are observations, interviews and a reflective journal to ensure validity of results. After analyzing the data, two interrelated themes emerged. The first theme highlights the benefits of play and creative arts in early childhood. The second theme shows the benefits of using them can support literacy and numeracy development. Consequently play and creative arts seems to promote development in children’s learning processes and they also offer the learners’ confidence in their learning. To conclude, this study shows that play and creative arts may have positive effect in improving the children’s overall performance and attitudes. Play and creative arts are important aspects of children’s learning that are being used in kindergartens. This action research project explores the using of play and creative arts in a kindergarten classroom. The purpose of this study is to evaluate and analyze how play and creative arts activities enhance and support children’s learning in literacy and numeracy lessons. Qualitative methods were used to gain data that reflect on the implementation of play and creative arts strategies and...
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...Lesson Plan Teacher Class Subject Date Duration Topic Objectives Material Needed Methodology Shelina.N.Bhamani 5-6 English (Creative Writing) Tuesday, March 29, 2005 45 mins Shape Poem The Student will be able to: 1=Share and write more creactive ideas. 2=Describe different objects Papers Pens Charts Markers Colours OHP(OHT)for the presentation of sample poem(WB can be used too) PRESENTATION: The Teacher will ask the student following questions.(How many of you like butterfly/balloon? Why ou like balloons/butterfly? Do you love poems(yes/no) well,then lets try to write one. Teacher will show an example or two like of balloon(MY RED BALLOON IS LIKE AN AEROPLANE WITHOUT WINGS.IT FLOATS LIKE A BIRD IN THE SKY.A STRONG WIND MAKES MY BALLOON RUN FAST AND TO THE GROUND.POP!OHNO..PIECE OF RUBBER DRIFTING TO THE GROUND)Than SS will asked to choose shapes draw it and write a peom inside that shape) for production you can display all the shapes poems on the school board /bulletin board/soft board.. production stage could be considerd as evaluation Evaluation Lesson Plan Teacher Class Subject Date Duration Topic Objectives Material Needed Methodology Sonia Sham Dupte grades 3-4 language arts Tuesday, March 01, 2005 30 mins telling a story Students will learn how to use descriptive and imaginative language to tell a story. * Telling a Story pictures (allow each student to choose their own picture) * paper * pencils Discuss with students the structure of a good story. Stress that...
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...The day that President Obama was sworn in as president is significant to me, more than just for the event. Certainly the event itself has historical meaning to all Americans, but the thing I remember most is that that was the day that I learned a very important lesson from my children Leading up to the election my children were very excited that an African American man has a chance to become president of the United States. I have to admit, I was pretty excited myself. However, the history of the country did not lead me to believe that it would actually happen. For numerous reasons I had my doubts. In the months leading up to the election I warned my children not to get too disappointed if things didn’t work out the way they wanted it to. Despite my warnings, as Election Day grew near my children actually became even more excited. Secretly, I was just as excited. Nevertheless, I did not want to get my hopes up too high. Honestly, I still did not believed that it would happen. I was preparing to sooth the disappointment in my children once the election results were announced. Election Day was a big event at my house. All my friends and family had gathered over and we were all tuned in to the television. Hour after hour I saw Obama leading the polls and I begin to feel a certain excitement that it might actually happen. I remember it being a school night for the children. We allowed them to stay up since this was such an historical event. When Barack Obama finally won our house...
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...Powerful Manner There are various ways to teach children math in a more powerful manner. Teachers need to understand that all children are unique and learn in various ways. In order to teach to the best of our abilities we need to teach them in the way they learn best. We also need to be sure that we are not lecturing our class. Lecturing a class is not teaching them, it is telling them what they need to know. We need to be sure that our teaching is intentional and relevant. If we want our students to do the best they can in our classroom then we need to teach in a more powerful manner. All children were raised differently and will learn math differently. It is our job as teachers to learn as much as we can about our students and their learning style preference. Some children prefer listening and some children are visual learners. Other children may prefer a tactile experience in the classroom. “Teachers must remember that while there are preferred input and output modalities, all children still need to develop their non preferred modalities. All these modes of input and output need to be used during lessons so that each child has the opportunity to use his or her strength and modality” (Tucker, 2006). It is our job to assess our students. We need to get to know them make sure that they know we care about them. We also need to be sure that our students know that we care about them and want them to succeed. When our children know that we have high expectations for them they...
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...Music and Its Effect on the Learning Experience of Children from Early Childhood To Adulthood Abstract Research proves that music has a major impact on the brain of individuals of all ages. This work focuses on how the use of music, melody, and song can play a positive role in the learning experiences of children throughout all grade levels if implement by teachers and instructors. With the assistance of three children, one from each age group (early childhood, middle to late childhood, and adolescence) it is proven that music does have an effect on the learning experience. It is also proven that ideas can be drawn from the developmental theories of Jean Piaget, Lev Vgotsky, and Sigmund Freud to correlate with the responses of the three children about how music effects their learning. Introduction If you were told that two groups of students in a case study were found to improve at significantly different rates in learning subjects such as reading and math in an elementary school what would you think was the independent variable used in the case study? Would you suspect that the independent variable was a difference curriculum? Maybe you would suggest that it could have been a difference in teachers? Or perhaps the groups were in different schools, private or public, urban or suburban. But how likely would you think it that the significant difference in progress could be attributed...
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...Introduction As educators we are in charge of teaching hundreds of students and ensuring that they are grasping the actual contents of the lessons we are teaching. What we need to ask ourselves is, “What defines that our students are learning?” The constructivism theory of learning changes the way we answer this question. No longer is getting the “right” answer the sole determining factor of whether a student has learned a particular lesson. In this theory learners create and drive their own learning. The role of the teacher is vastly changed as the teacher becomes an instigator of learning instead of the leader. Background The constructivist view on learning has greatly changed the way theorist think about a person’s learning process. For hundreds of years the thought of how one “processes” learning was the focus on all research regarding how a person functions during learning. The constructivist view changes all previous thoughts on learning while maintaining some compatibility with other thoughts. It is a theory with more than one perspective which gives it multiple view points while maintaining the main focus on the learner. There are many theorists who have contributed towards the constructivist theory. Two of the primary theorists, Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky had different contributions to this theory. Piaget’s theory of cognitive development provides some basis for understanding the stages a learner developmentally goes through. His theory essentially...
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...Rubric for a Performance Task in Your Lesson Alexandra Hirsch Walden University Instructor: Dr. Gerald Gary Educ-6640J-5/Educ-664OH-5 Part One: Assessment Plan Since I began a career in teaching I have always focused on creating innovative lesson plans and assessment methods geared toward the various student learning styles. This facilitates a plethora of learning opportunities that afford students the ability to develop areas in which they may have difficulty. In order to help my students learn from their mistakes I vigorously record data to ensure I have relevant and objective information to share while giving feedback. When my students successfully complete my assessment tasks it substantiates my belief that finding balance in the utilization of different assessments is crucial. According to the Educational Leadership article, “the goal of a balanced system is to ensure all assessment users have access to the data they want when they need it, which is an effective use of multiple measures.” (Kim, Lambert, and Burts, 2013) As a primary teacher, it is imperative that I consistently incorporate assessments that are not only developmentally appropriate for my kindergarten students but also personally relevant. “Appropriate assessment is an integral and important component of high-quality early care and education programs. Scientifically informed assessment measures are needed to ensure that all children, regardless of disabilities, culture...
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...cher, and having to teach a college lesson was intimidating and I did not feel as comfortable as I wanted to be about teaching my lesson plan. I understood the material, but the atmosphere of teaching to college students in a way freaked me out. Going through this process of the project, it required my ability to organize and relate my topic to the others in my group. The 4 MAT helped me with my organization skills to make sure that I had everything that I needed to talk about. I learned about myself, that I do not really have a problem with Common Core because to me, it is a step toward a solution to better education for students. Teachers should be more willing to try it t change was scary and that it has a high possibility of not working. Now I see that teachers should look at change with optimism, but to also be critical as well. Be aware that the solution is fulfilling the causes for change. Education is more than just teaching concepts to children, it is equipping them for their future and if the system is flawed and calls for change, then we should be more open to the possible solutions. My teaching philosophy has changed just in the sense to keep the educational system in perspective and to be aware that there are going to be flaws but to work with the changes to fix them. My perspective of teaching has changed in the sense that it is important to not only know the material you want to teach, but to also be comfortable with how you are teaching it. Being prepared...
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