...for numerous amounts of television shows actually depict a lesson to lure in an audience. Take the television show Scrubs. Written and directed by Ryan Levin, this comical series about a well-renowned hospital and its staff depict the everyday lives of four different characters. In this comical show that allows four friends to comment on their everyday lives about being a doctor, resident intern, and surgeon. A story line based on the comical genius of the producers of both South Park and Weeds. Follow me as I analyze both the good and bad aspects of all four of the characters tell their sides of the story through each others lines. The storyline of many different television shows normally have exactly the same sequence of events. First, the scene is set in a hospital. But as many people do not know, Sacred Heart Hospital is no ordinary hospital. Here, everyone hates everyone in a sarcastic manner. All the employees hate the boss, the chief of medicine; Dr. Bob Kelso because he is some hypocritical, crazed maniac that cannot even once admit that he really needs friends or loves his wife. As for the maintenance staff is concerned, the only person who actually is involved inside the lives of all four friends, the crazed Janitor, known as Janitor, takes all matters into his own hands when he begins his need for chaos with J.D. As for everyone else, they sort of just go along with absolutely everything that happens between the four friends and their crazed adventures. ...
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...practice teacher can recount numerous highs and lows in their practice teaching career. Personally, I experienced many great moments while teaching. These were days when I ended so happy and enthusiastic that I knew I had selected the right profession. On the other hand, I had days where I definitely questioned teaching as a career. These 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...
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...Reflection I was hired last May 15, 2013, my life officially started as a certified public servant. During that time, everything about being a public teacher was so ideal in my mind, although I don’t disregard the difficulties that I might encounter during the start of the School Year 2013-2014 but basically I already prepared myself for those and challenge myself to overcome them. Dedication, patience and perseverance are my innate traits, that’s why I’m always thinking to double or even triple these, just to make sure that I can be able to adjust my life in this new work environment of mine. My first encounter with my new colleagues in the Division of Imus was during the “1st Imus City Teachers Congress”, as a new teacher we we’re given the overview of the duties and responsibilities in the public school. I was so impressed way back then, especially with Dr. Cadavedo, OIC Office of the Schools Division Superintendent, she was so knowledgeable and precise in answering the teachers’ queries about the usual problems that we might face throughout the school year. My thinking during that time was, if I will be surrounded with these types of people, I would be the best of my kind. Then here comes May 16, 2013, our first day of service, the first instruction that was given to us, from our Department Head, Mr. Talon is to paint the chicken fence near the canteen area for “Brigada Eskwela”, we also clean the school garden, paint the canteen and the area near the court. I...
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...of being a Teacher First day of school! First day of teaching! First day to change children's lives! Many first time teachers get discouraged because they aren’t prepared for their first year of teaching. Starting your first job at a new school can be intimidating because you don’t know what that year has in store for you. However it’s okay if you ask other teachers for advice as you work with students throughout the year. Being a teacher comes with a lot of challenges and rewards. Some rewards that I will face while teaching are building relationships with students and parents, influence a child's life, and share my passion for teaching with students. Some of the challenges that I will face while teaching are time management, bullying, and conflict between students. To begin with teaching is one of the most rewarding jobs. A national survey found that teachers are generally satisfied with their career choices and their level of satisfaction has increased in the last 25 years (MetLife, 2009). Teachers have the opportunity to build relationships with students and their parents making their bonds very strong. The teachers spend most of their time with parent’s children and it's important to let parents know that they will be taken care of. I believe that it is important to know each student individually and make every one of them feel like they are important to the teacher and to their classmates. In addition one challenge that I will face is time management. Teachers generally...
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...of the main factors new teachers leave after a few years of teaching is socialization. With all the training and along with additional tools new teachers get before entering into the classroom. They’re faced with so many obstacles as new teachers, that’s why it’s so good to have programs like mentoring and induction programs to help on this journey during the first couple years of teaching. Mentoring Programs are programs organized by experienced or veteran teachers, whose job is to help the new or beginning teacher. Their responsibility is to offer advice, guidance, and support for them to take back to the classroom. Induction programs are programs that are established to first year teachers that provide workshops, internships and the oppourinty for teachers to observe their future peers in the classroom to see how it’s done. These tools will provide aide to them, to use when facing adversity, challenges or any difficult situation that will arise in the classroom. The purpose of the mentoring program is to give personal and long-term individual support to the new teachers. New teachers are assigned to a mentor who will offer guidance and support to them during their first year experience. Even though mentoring is part of induction process it’s not induction. On the other hand induction programs are designed to focus on the teacher’s professional development and self-esteem. Both Mentoring and Induction programs both have helped to reduce the first year attrition rate. It...
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...My Life Long Dream is to be a Teacher English Composition I My Life Long Dream is to be a Teacher I have wanted to be a teacher ever since I was a Junior in high school. During that year, I got to help at our elementary school for one of my class electives. I was assigned to one of the first grade classes. I remember talking to the teacher I was helping. I asked her how she liked teaching and what it took to be a teacher. Her first question to me was how did I like working with children. I told her I loved it and wished I could help her all year long. She told me that if I really liked working with children, I should go to college and get my teaching degree. Although everyone measures success in his or her career differently, I believe by becoming a teacher I will be successful. After I graduated from high school, I did not have plans of attending college right away. I decided to take a job as a teaching aide. I was assigned to help with the pre-first grade class. That first year helping was very educational. I helped the children in class learn how to write their ABC’s and showed them how to write their numbers. I learned so much by working with these children I was finally ready to go to college to get my degree. I attended Aims Community College in Greeley, Colorado to get my electives out of the way and then planned on transferring to the University of Northern Colorado, also in Greeley, for the last two years. I often thought how...
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...DR: My Pedagogical Experience dr University of Texas Pan American June 11, 2012 My Pedagogical Experience Introduction: Like most South Texas residents, I come from a large family. Unfortunately this largely Hispanic population has several members in their families that lack a proper education. For example, my mother dropped out of school so she can support a family. As a single parent, my mother strived everyday to maintain us, so that we would have everything that we needed for school. My mother has always supported me in my education, and she always pushed me to do better so I would get a diploma and continue my education to get a bachelors degree. It is extremely important that I have a successful future. I not only have to think about myself but for my new family. By having an educational background not only will I provide my family with a secure and stable future but also hope to give the kids in my community a chance to have a bright future as well. I was first inspired to become a teacher when I attended Kelly Elementary. Ms. Palacios, the best teacher I ever had, was truly one of a kind. To this day I have not seen any teachers that have the true passion to teach and inspire young minds like Ms. Palacios was able give me. Several of them are just there for the pay and because they get several days off. Junior High was truly an eye awakening experience for me. For the first time I felt pressured to do better in order to graduate in the top ten...
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...12, 2004, Corrina Obernesser, a running, smiling, and insane girl was born. My parents thought I would be a normal child but little did they know, I was about as diverse and different as it gets. In my early years I was creative and always active. I constantly was outside playing with my two older sisters, Maddie and Shyanne. I grew up in a three bedroom four bathroom house in a medium sized town twenty minutes from Denver. As I grew up in my stucco brown home I was always influenced to do my best and always be as active as possible. I was into many sports like baseball, soccer, track, cross country, and gymnastics. My little legs were always working. My father ,Matt, was a physical education teacher and my mother, Diane...
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...IV NARRATIVE REPORT 1. Weekly Narrative Report a. First Week: November 24-28, 2014 “New challenges were started, new experiences were encountered, and new learnings were met—all these things came in the first week of my practice teaching experience.” As I was assigned in Vicente B. Ylagan National High School (VBYNHS), I discovered that practice teaching was a very crucial part of a student-teacher’s life. In the very first day of our practice teaching, 24th day of November 2014, together with my colleagues, daily schedule and subjects were given to us and we were assigned to our cooperating teachers. Based on my schedule’s list, I have a one-hour class period in the morning, from 8:20 to 9:20 for English class and two-hour class from 1:00 to 2:00 and another 3:00 to 4:00 in the afternoon for both MAPEH class. It was a big relief to have my minor subject-MAPEH because there were no computations anyway, but having its four components was not as easy as pie. And, the cooperating teachers that were given to me were Sir Jaypee Jimenez for my English subject and Sir Eleno Bandayrel for my MAPEH. Besides, on that day, we also met the professional teachers on that institution, few new colleagues and students with unfamiliar faces, and my major and minor class-9-Onyx and 9-Jade. Aside from that, we had figured out their classrooms, canteen and offices as well. As the time went on, I took the road of difficulties in each day: travel going to school and going back home...
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...students with self-motivation, essential in early childhood development. “Self-motivation is a continuing process and the only way we become better and stronger is to create a few mistakes a long the way and also face a few setbacks” (Solis, 2009). Providing first graders with a concise and understandable classroom management plan, creates a creative, caring, and convivial learning environment. A1a. Self-management Classroom management is very important for students as well as teachers. Teaching first graders self-management is one factor of classroom management. Student-centered instruction is one way to teach first graders self-management. This type of method teaches students to verbally communicate with others in an appropriate way, giving the teacher the ability to successfully create a fun and exciting learning environment. Just because a classroom is noisy does not mean it is not a well-managed classroom. Students need to feel they belong and be given the freedom to have fun with learning. A quote from William Glasser that I strongly agree with is, “We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.” By using some aspects of William Glasser’s choice theory, a teacher can create a safe, fun, creative, and positive learning environment for students. An example applying this philosophy of self-management is...
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...achievement between boys versus girls in school?” (Fioriello 1). In my opinion the disparity lies with some teachers not having enough patience to deal with little boys in the classroom. Nor do they possess proper training to differentiate the fact that; boys are very much different than girls in chemical brain development. Even before my son was born I have always wondered and suspected if boys are treated differently in school than their girl counterparts? This question has been on my mind of years as an afterthought, but once my son entered kindergarten my suspicions were once again aroused. I have always kept abreast of the growing issues of class room disparity among boys and girls; it was always something that interested. Now that I have my son Michael, who by the way entered first grade this year, I am in full battle gear. I am a one woman advocate at this point for boys and learning. Let me point out now, this is not a paper on race disparity in the public school system, it is a paper on gender disparity. Yes, there is a racial discontent among African American and Alston 2 Hispanic boys in the classroom concerning learning and being taught. I refuse to jump on the racial band wagon, if I only focused on a race that I belonged to I would be doing an injustice if I left all boys out. My first grader is a boy who happens to be black case closed. A few...
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...My literacy experience was shaped differently from my peers because of the fact that I wanted to be a teacher. When I had bad teachers all I could do was tell myself the things I did not want to do in my own classroom, and there were no good teachers to compare them to. Until I came to college, I did not have any teachers that influenced me in a positive way. By not having those positive factors in my life, my idea of literacy was very negative. When I was younger I would always get in trouble from my teachers because I was very social. My teachers would send notes home to my parents asking them to control my talkative habits because I was distracting to my peers during class. They would stick me away from my friends, which would not work because...
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...Paper Education 2010 Section 1 Charles Preston 4/25/11 Dispositions of a teacher are some of the most important topics we covered through the semester in Education 201. Teacher dispositions, if followed correctly, can be looked at as the prototypical teacher who can arrive at a school and not only help out the school, but also help of the children. The main dispositions of learning consist of the commitment to diversity, commitment to ethics, commitment to the teaching profession, and knowing the philosophies and theories of education. Throughout a semester of a number of speakers, class documents, and Martin Haberman’s Star Teachers, I feel like I have learned how important these dispositions truly are for the success of a teacher and what I need to work on to better myself to become a true star educator. The first disposition of teaching is the commitment to diversity. Commitment to diversity is a strong point of mine because I have first handedly seen the benefits of diversity in the schools. In one hand I went to a middle school that was about 30% African American, 25% Hispanic, and 45% White. On the other hand I went to a high school that was almost 95% White, 4% African American, and 1% Hispanic. I feel like the students I went to school with in the diverse community had a more open mind about society in a whole which clearly made for better learning. I also observed that the teachers at the diverse school seemed to have more motivation to drive the students to succeed...
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...Energy, enthusiasm, patience, friendly, confidence and knowledge. ‘What are your expectations of yourself as a student teacher?’ To help the students to learn to their best ability? To motivate and encourage each student and understand each student at their own level? To complete the designated subjects that have been assigned to me from my cooperating teachers? To give the students the best knowledge that I have learnt from my experience in school, college and the business world? To engage students in the learning environment so that they are well equipped for their junior cert and leaving cert exam? This was the question posed to the naïve student teachers. What I wanted to achieve when I started teaching, and presently hold, are not so alien from each other, just now perhaps more realistic. Meeting the principal and teachers at their school for the first time was a great feeling. They made me feel so at ease as I met everyone. They also provided the course books and assigned the chapters, which I was to cover. I was definitely ‘bitten by the bug’! Focused, energized and excited I went back to college to start my lesson plans. According to Kyriacou, 2001, the effective teacher must have yielded a mass of material concerning the skills, which are displayed by an effective teacher. Teachers judged to be effective appear to have the following qualities; • ‘Establishing an orderly and attractive learning environment. • Concentrating on teaching and learning...
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...their lives they will change their career path several times. I have always truly known that teaching was my calling, yet for years I have floundered from one unfulfilling position to the next. My decision in the summer of 2011 to partake in the adventure of returning to school has turned out to be a most rewarding one indeed. As with every new page turned I am continuing to find that one good decision leads to many other opportunities and new decisions to be made. When you begin to see a productive future ahead, foundational plans need to be laid in order to keep yourself on track and focused. There are such a variety of educational opportunities and resources for those that enter into the field of education that developing a detailed plan of action is one of the most efficient ways to ensure that all your goals are met and your dreams become reality. Taking into consideration that I returned to school a little later in life, I feel that I have a greater grasp of where I am headed professionally and personally. I have had many ups and many downs reaching this point in my professional and personal lives, all of which have made me a stronger and more focused individual and student. Throughout the next five years I have high hopes of completing my current task at hand which is becoming a certified teacher. My first benchmark toward achieving that goal is to complete my Associate of Arts with a Concentration in Elementary Education degree from the University of Phoenix. Upon...
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