...My Maths teacher changed my life. I started taking Spanish 1A and 1B just because I needed electives for 7th and 8th grade and didn’t think I could suffer through anything else. I took Spanish 2 because I wanted another year with my favorite teacher. See, I’ve never really minded teachers. I always got along with them just fine. At the same time, I never really felt like I could relate to any of them either. They were friendly and they taught just fine. They just never really tried to level with their students. I feel like because of that, my grades weren’t exactly what they could’ve, should’ve, been. I never saw a reason to do the work. If my teacher didn’t care enough about me to ask why things weren’t getting done, then why should I do them? There was no real reason besides a grade. The motivation just wasn’t high enough to make me care. Then, I started taking a class with Mrs. Davis as my teacher. When I didn’t do the work, she asked why. She cared. She wanted to know me more than the other teachers seemed to. She wanted to see more than just another face in a desk everyday. She wanted that with all her students. She still does. So, I explained things to her. She listened. She paid attention. She remembered and always asked for a follow up. She still does. For the first time since I started school, one of my teachers really seemed to see something other than another face and another grade. I was important. I’d never felt like a teacher found me important. So I started doing...
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...My Spanish teacher changed my life. I started taking Spanish 1A and 1B just because I needed electives for 7th and 8th grade and didn’t think I could suffer through anything else. I took Spanish 2 because I wanted another year with my favorite teacher. See, I’ve never really minded teachers. I always got along with them just fine. At the same time, I never really felt like I could relate to any of them either. They were friendly and they taught just fine. They just never really tried to level with their students. I feel like because of that, my grades weren’t exactly what they could’ve, should’ve, been. I never saw a reason to do the work. If my teacher didn’t care enough about me to ask why things weren’t getting done, then why should I do them? There was no real reason besides a grade. The motivation just wasn’t high enough to make me care. Then, I started taking a class with Mrs. Davis as my teacher. When I didn’t do the work, she asked why. She cared. She wanted to know me more than the other teachers seemed to. She wanted to see more than just another face in a desk everyday. She wanted that with all her students. She still does. So, I explained things to her. She listened. She paid attention. She remembered and always asked for a follow up. She still does. For the first time since I started school, one of my teachers really seemed to see something other than another face and another grade. I was important. I’d never felt like a teacher found me important. So I started...
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...Nevertheless, teachers play an essential role in each of their students’ education. It is vital that students seek a continuous pursuit for knowledge, but it is the responsibility of the teachers to provide the guidance needed to succeed. My perception of teaching and learning since the beginning of the semester has not changed because of what I have learned in my classes or what I have observed at Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School. What both experiences have done is confirmed my understanding of teaching and learning as being a challenging yet rewarding process. Teaching the whole student and helping them build on their skills around critical thinking, researching, and the general fusion of written and verbal knowledge in a caring and connected way that teachers need to do constantly but can also be a challenge. According to Brown & Knowles (2007), “As educators, we are obligated and responsible to create curriculum that has meaning” (p. 208) and would help students understand how social and cultural contexts can shape their learning. Teaching and learning are entwined through almost every aspect of life and once students understand and are willing to entangle themselves in both the reward for student and teacher can be astronomical. My perception of teaching and learning did not change but what was the most surprising aspect of teaching was how I must be an organized and caring teacher at all times. According to Brown & Knowles (2007) “Middle level teachers will...
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...Self-Introductory Speech: The One Thing in My Life That Changed My Career Goal without Me Even Knowing Till Now. Lucrecia Paige Mosley Public Speaking March 3, 2014 Mrs. Nicole Harmon INTRODUCTION: Learning is fundamental. Where would we all be without all of the great teachers who spent their time helping us learn about ourselves and the world? Good Evening ladies and gentlemen my name is Lucrecia Paige Mosley. Lucrecia, Yes I know a lot of people find that as an odd name but I got it from my pastor’s wife whom is also; my mom’s childhood friend. I am from Banner, MS and I am the third of five children. I have three sisters and one brother along with them I have two nieces and two nephews. I will be speaking to you today about the one thing in my life that changed my career goal without me even knowing till now. BODY: In my eleventh grade year of high school I was offered a job at the First Baptist Creative Learning Center. My mom is the one who told me about it when I got home from school. The daycare was the same daycare I went to as a kid and where I graduated from. I went the next day to meet with the lady that runs the center. I walk into the door the smell hit me like a memory train wasn’t a stinky smell it was like a clean mixed with baby lotion aroma. The director Mrs. Rosemary came out of her office minutes after I entered the door. She showed me all the classrooms, the lunch room, bathrooms, and finally my room. It was a four walled room with rainbow...
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... “The Kaffir Boy” by Mark Mathabane, “Two Kinds” by Nicholas Gage, and “The Teacher Who Changed My Life” by Amy Tan all have examples for overcoming expectations. The characters in all these stories make their ways in life by changing the expectations of the world around them, but it is not always in a positive way. “The Kaffir Boy” represents overcoming many expectations, which allows Mark to get somewhere in life. “Your father didn’t go to school” (Mark Mathabane 7). By not attending school, it is hard for even the brightest people to do anything with their life. By going to school, Mark could shatter people’s expectations, proving he would not follow in his father’s path of a life on the streets. “...he doesn’t have money to waste paying for you to get what he calls a useless education” (Mark Mathabane 6). Mark is pressured by his father to not attend school, which is his expectation of his son. Mark breaks that expectation and goes to school. By going to school, the people around Mark expect new things, and they are positive things that will change his life. Nicholas Gage in “The...
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...A Teacher To Remember Most people would define a good teacher as someone who makes their students excel academically and do well on their tests. In the story “I Just Wanna Be Average” the author Mike Rose mentions that society very often neglects and does not see the full value and potential of students. Even though I never got mistaken placed into a vocational class like Mike Rose, but who has never faced difficult situation in school before? However, not everybody is lucky as Rose or I that found somebody that believe in you and help you overcome your obstacles in school. Mr. Wenderoof, I met him during my last year of High School, in my economic class. Even though I only have him for half of the semester, but it was the most meaningful and unforgettable semester that I had for my last year at Eagle Rock High School. When I first walked into my economic class, a boring atmosphere didn't make me feel welcome to the class. But when Mr. Wenderoof walked into the class, everything changed. He made every single of us feel like we're all his children, and he has changed the way I see the world at that moment. He is not one of those teachers that I have ever met before. Mr. Wenderoof not only taught us about economic or how important economic versus government, but also about life and how we have to treasure everything we have in front of us. After six years of High School, and teacher to teacher, Mr. Wenderoof is by far the best teacher I have ever had. He not only sees us as...
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...Teacher that changed my life A teacher alone has the ability to change a student’s life. Agree or disagree. The school is not a video game which gives immediate gratification, and we cannot claim that students fall in love in each subject taught. After all, what a teacher teaches daily are simple tools like speaking a language, solve a math problem or write an essay that are unlikely by themselves to radically change the lives of students. We all, in our school career, remembered a hurtful words of teachers, with comments on our grades records for example or on the opposite hand a teacher who once believed in us, who knew how to restore our confidence. So a teacher has the ability to change a student lives with sometimes a happy end but it can also influenced the student in disastrous consequences. I never saw a reason to do the work. If my teacher didn’t care enough about me to ask why things weren’t getting done, then why should I do them? There was no real reason besides a grade. The motivation just wasn’t high enough to make me care. Then, I started taking a class with Mrs. Davis as my teacher. When I didn’t do the work, she asked why. She cared. She wanted to know me more than the other teachers seemed to. She wanted to see more than just another face in a desk every day. She wanted that with all her students. She still does. So, I explained things to her. She listened. She paid attention. She remembered and always asked for a...
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...Assignment Comm-1050/TEACHERS NAME INTRODUCTION Media has changed an incredible amount over decades and even every year. The media will continue to grow unless people stop using it, which let’s be honest, will never happen. In my life I have seen how the media has grown, changed, and progressed. There were parts of the media that really drew me in as if I was a part of it while other parts did not have any interest on me. At times there were even some median that I did not even know was out there. Culture and media had significant changes from when I was in Preschool, Elementary, Middle School, High School, and now College. What I found interesting as I looked back was not only did the culture and the media change, but what interested me and the media that caught my attention also changed. PRESCHOOL & ELEMENTARY MEDIA In my preschool years I don’t recall the culture and the media having an influence on me, I don’t even recall the media at all. The media to me was my family and my friends. Going to school and putting on school plays and productions. Sports were the biggest culture and media that was affecting me during this time. Whenever Halloween came around if I wasn’t dressed as a professional dirt bike rider or as a professional baseball player then I wasn’t a “cool” kid. I did believe that if I dressed the part then that portrayed who I actually was or could be. When elementary came my feelings changed a bit, but not much. During this point in my life the media still...
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...Looking back When I first walked through the doors of Brunswick High School four years ago, I saw an open door to multiple opportunities. I remember everyone telling me how this would be the best four years of my life. Since that day a lot has changed. My surroundings have changed, my image has changed, my friends have changed, and my knowledge has advanced. From the beginning of high school I have met some very important people. In class on my first day of school I remember I met numerous people and I could not even match names with faces on the second day. I remember most of all how welcoming everyone was and how warm hearted and kind the teachers were. Of course now as a senior, four years later I pass the faces of people that were once close friends that have now become strangers and I pass teachers I used to adore and look the other direction. It is a sad thing to think about but life goes on. In my opinion, high school prepares students for the real world. It doesn’t just give us knowledge on mathematics and how to translate shakespeare. It teaches us the ins and outs, and the ups and downs of life. You meet real people, ones that would cross an ocean for you, and the ones that wouldn’t cross a puddle. You meet yourself, you learn who you are, who you want to be, and what you want to accomplish. You make mistakes while there is still room for improvement. You find parts of education interesting that you thought you would never care about. You watch the people around...
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...Changing All great changes are preceded by chaos. A dynamic character is someone who changes; static characters stay the same. In middle school I was immature, in my transformation I became mature. Most people change from middle school to high school. You change by realizing things, maturing or just growing up. Well not for me, something happened that helped me transform into the person I am today. To begin with, if you knew my personality in middle school, it is nothing, as I am perceived today. I was immature and constantly got in trouble. I didn’t care what the teacher had to say and I would make it difficult for other students to learn. Lets just say I was more of a nuisance then a pleasure to have in class. I was always a bright student, some how managed to only get one B and the rest A’s through middle school. Considering I was rarely in class due to my comportment during class. The biggest immaturity part of middle school was how I got in trouble. It wasn’t as if I was selling drugs or anything terrible! I would get in trouble for doing immature actions as going to the bathroom for twenty minutes, not being in my seat and most importantly talking! Speaking out in class was the biggest issues for me as I was in middle school. See you might ask how did you get twenty-three referrals during eighth grade when you weren’t there for two months due to surgery. After every day seeing the most irritating kid you’ve ever come across you might realize how I got referrals for things...
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...discuss my three ambition’s and dreams which include graduating with a masters to become a teacher, getting married to start a family of my own, and 2016 being my year with opulence of fortitude. First of all, my ambition is to graduate with my masters and become a teacher for the elementary school. My mother who has been and still is a 2nd grade elementary teacher for the past 25 years. My aunts and uncles also take a part in teaching the elementary level and so I think becoming an elementary teacher will be the best experience yet. Only because I have a lot of support from experienced teachers. Aiming for a master’s degree for teaching is my best bet is the advice my mother gives me. I’ll tell you why. I have placed a chart of the differences between the salaries for a bachelor’s degree compared to one with a master’s degree. Teacher Salaries: Bachelor's vs. Master's Degree. Master/Bachelor of Education salary comparison. National Center for Education Statistics 2012. Furthermore, on top of higher earnings, teachers who have their masters can more easily transition into senior and administrative positions in education. An educator who aspires, for example, to a position as a principal or school counselor might pursue a masters in. So with a masters I can have many options in education careers and invest my time wisely. Source: Indiana Department of Education STEPHEN J. BEARD / THE STAR As one can see, I have placed a chart to why new teachers chose to...
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...school. My move from middle school to high school has changed my personality, interests, and standards for academics. P1: Being placed in a new unfamiliar environment has made me more social and has improved my attitude towards life. My middle school years were the worst years of my life. This had to do with the fact that I switched...
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...In “The Teacher Who Changed My Life” by Nicholas Gage, is an essay in which his feelings toward his teacher change. The feelings changed in the essay starting out as Nicholas not liking his teacher to him thanking her. Gage’s feelings changed toward his teacher by when he didn’t like her class but he ends up finding inspiration. The way Gage’s feelings change affects him by making him become a journalist. In the beginning of the essay Gage didn’t know what to feel about his new school. The principal had put him and his sister in a mentally retarded class. In this class he would meet the teacher that changes his life. At first he didn’t like her class but he ended up enjoying it. One day Gage followed one of the girls he had a crush on into...
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...some significant events changed their life in both positive and negative ways. You hear some fantastic about someday upon the mountain, a fascinating journey adventure to the ends of the world or even a feeling when facing with a natural disaster. Many people have their own different kinds of story, different unique experiences, all of them come and have a great impact on their life, change greatly the way of thinking about life and perceiving it in every people. After reading my story, you may find out it is nothing spectacular, nothing fantastic, but for me, this story affect significantly about my life, about my attitude and behaviors with others. Until now, it has been seen as one of the most memorable event in my life. One of the most memorable days in my life was when I realized the significance of being honest and understand how it is important to me. I remembered that at the age of fifteen, I was not only a stubborn boy, but also overweening about myself. I often got high score in Math and other subjects so I always thought that the perfect student is me, I myself know everything about life and I’m the special one who never makes mistakes. Day by day, step by step, nothing happen to me and gradually, I was more and more over confident and arrogant, these attitudes led me to some inappropriate behaviors such as ignoring people ideas or advices, laughing at a friend when he/she got bad mark and never helping others when they got troubles. Everyday my friends tried to be supportive...
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...Teaching for the Future Valentonia Somers Miami Dade College - Wolfson Campus Teaching for a Future Many now and upcoming teachers have different ideas when it comes to the type of image they want to imprint on their students. Growing up I have had many teachers, some have left good and bad experiences in my life that has ultimately brought me to where I am today. “John Dewey was possibly the most influential educator of the twentieth century and probably the most controversial one”(Sadker &Zittleman 2010). I believe in being a progressive teacher in that I want to see my students at any skill level continue to improve. As a progressive teacher I will have 3 main goals: to inspire, grow and groom individuality into each student under my care in the classroom. I will a teacher whose image will never be forgotten and whose tenacity for education is never questioned. I believe that, if possible, every child no matter the age or ethnic background should be treated as an Individual in the classroom. In my own personal experiences being a student I have seen how even in a college setting the connection a teacher or professor can have with a student one on one is much more satisfying than a teacher who just teaches a class. Education, according to John Dewey, is the “participation of the individual in the social consciousness of the race” (Dewey, 1897). As such, education should take into account that the student is a social being. The process begins at birth with the...
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