...Teach Like A Pirate Part 1 of Teach Like a Pirate is divided into 6 sections: Passion, Immersion, Rapport, Ask and Analyze, Transformation, and Enthusiasm. Passion can be divided into content passion, professional passion and personal passion. A teacher who is fully immersed in the moment has a special type of intensity that resonates with great power in the classroom, regardless of the activity. Building rapport is all about interacting with your students as fellow human beings, not just subordinates. Rapport is important because it helps create buy-in. Ask and Analyze says that if you consistently ask questions that lead to creative and outside-the-box thinking, your mind will provide you with creative and outside-the-box answers. The Honda Odyssey example is so true! Transformation deals with reframing. A teachers job is to create a mental paradigm shift by reframing the content and its value and relevancy to their lives. Enthusiasm is contagious. Your attitude carries with it your single most powerful tool to influence your classroom. Part 2 of Teach Like a Pirate discusses crafting engaging lessons. I learned many ideas from Dave Burgess’ hooks. I liked “Move It, Move It”. It encourages kinesthetic activities in the classroom. We do a lot of music and movement in Kindergarten. I have also used the “People Prop” hook by having groups make human letters with their bodies. (ex: making the letter A by laying on the floor) The “Picasso” hook is used...
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...Individual Research Paper: Employee Incentives The purpose of this paper is to discuss incentive programs for teachers. In a society where education is more important as ever, public school districts should be thinking of new ways to encourage their teachers to remain in the educational field. Teachers are leaving their desired profession to find employment that has enhanced incentives. According to Management-People, Performance, Change, “a growing number of companies are launching inititives so that employees can balance their family and work life. The most common inititives are redesigning work, alternative work arrangements, leaves, time-saving assistance, emotional well-being, financial assistance, legal assistance, relocation, health benefits, wellness, parenting, childcare, child develepment, exceptional care giving services, and handling family issues in the office.” In order to preserve respected, qualified, and experienced teachers, incentive programs for educators need to be improved. The school district I will be discussing has 18 schools. According to Connecting Business to the Future website, the school district “is one of the newest school districts in their state. In 2008, it was surveyed to have more than 15,500 and 2000 staff members.” The school district is the 2nd largest employer in their county. I interviewed two high school teachers, and one principal from the school district. They all agreed there is a large turn over with teachers and one...
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...Social Drivers that will affect my choice include the follow: * Political * Low job rate * If in debt, salaries are at stake * Social * Communication with teachers and coworkers * Negative equity * Money * Easy money * High salaries * Personal interest * Enjoy being around children * Enjoy interacting with children Positive effect of these four drivers: Political driver, if the province or areas are in need of more teachers than I would be able to get a job as an elementary teacher because there is a high rate for teachers to teach child. If there would ever be another time for baby bombers then I would be lucky to gain a job because teachers necessary when there are a lot of child and also each class can only have a set amount of children per class, schools would have to hire more and more teachers to teach the children. Social driver, communication with others is an important part of any kind of career...
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...May 16, 2014 Hiring Manager World Teach One Brattle Square, Suite 550 Cambridge, MA 02138 Re: Open Application Letter Good Afternoon, My name is XXXXXX and I am contacting you with great passion and interest in working for World Teach Organization. For many years I have followed the motto and representation of World Teach, sharing the same idea that everyone deserves an education, and with this education any one person can change the world. Only with a strong schooling structure can a strong community be built, and this opportunity is scarcely available to many countries that are crumbling without the basic foundation that knowledge can provide. It is this desire, nay, vigor, that I contact you today in hopes of adding to World Teach Organization’s dream of reaching all countries with proper educational support. My qualifications extend beyond enjoyment of the field. Along with a Bachelor’s Degree in Project Management (Business Administration) and a Master’s Degree in International Education, I have experience in community development, teaching internationally, cultural immersion, and volunteer coordination. The combination of my two degrees make for effective plan implementation while developing strategies in local communities. My work history has made business/event organization a focus, meaning communication and managerial skills were imperative and successfully used. Also, my extracurricular work shows the love I have for spreading education, and my whole...
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...Tyndale’s Work William Tyndale was the translator of the first English New Testament; who was fluent in seven languages and skilled in ancient Hebrew and Greek. A priest gifted with high intellect and followed a disciplined life, Tyndale’s life passion was to teach English men and women about the good that comes with being justified by faith. This life passion would cause him suffering in the end. In 1510, Tyndale started his studies at Oxford. During the following three years, Tyndale’s desire to teach English men and women about the positivity that comes about with justification by faith grew until it became a burning passion. Motivated by this passion, Tyndale asked the bishop of London for permission and a loan to translate the New Testament into English; but he was...
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...Imagine a place where you do not have to worry about where your next meal is coming from or buying a purifier to drink your water and having the choice of fresh organic foods at your disposal. Well imagine no more because Passion Town is here. Passion Town is a large city with plenty of country side with fields of flowers and trees. Its location is right next to the hot springs. Some say they believe these hot springs have healing powers but you can make that judgment for yourself. In our town we do numerous charity events to help the community. In these charity events we begin them by explaining what they are donating their money for. Then we introduce them to the families that they would be assisting with their money. Once that is done the charity process begins and ends with a light snack and refreshments for the guest. These charity events occur twice a month at different locations each time. We do that so everyone from different areas that need help can attend this event. Passion town has a diverse population of 2,500 people. There are 50% males and 50% females that dwell here. Everyone is equal in Passion town. Males and females are granted the same opportunities and treated with the same respect. The government chain of command is formed to regulate the rules and civil laws. Some of our civil laws are: wearing clothes in public, covering your mouth when sneeze/cough, and no public smoking unless you are in a smoking section facility. The penalties for each offense...
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...Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs We are missing the opportunity to find kids who show traits of entrepreneurship and Groom / show them that being an entrepreneur is a cool thing. Kids have dream and passions and visions, they are crushed. Told they should study harder, be more focused, or get a tutor. Instead of furthering what they are good at, they get them a tutor in what they suck at. School system is Kids to be a lawyer or doctor instead of looking for and grooming traits that would make them an excellent entrepreneur. Have ideas and passion or see needs in the world, they stand up and do it and they put everything on the line to see these things happen. Getting kids to embrace being an entrepreneur at a young age we could change the problems in the world to. Obligation to teach our children to teach our kids to be entrepreneurial, spreading businesses instead Teaching kids to go after good jobs, or what's cool, MBA programs do not teach our kids to be entrepreneurial. They teach them to go work in corporations, but who is starting these companies? Popular literature: Atlas shrugged makes entrepreneur into the hero, but everything else looks at entrepreneurs as bad people. All entrepreneurs have struggled with school, ADD, bipolar (CEO disease, Ted turner, Steve jobs, 3 founders of netscape.) We see these signs in kids and give them ritalin, and tell them not to be an entrepreneurial type, but to fit into the system and become...
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...Legend will be talked about in great detail on how it relates to the use of the marketing mix and its four elements; product, price, place, and promotion. Live your Legend, or liveyourlegend.net, is a community-based website business founded by Scott Dinsmore. Scott started Live your Legend as a way of spreading his message to the world. He wanted to help people find their passions and teach them how to use what they love and make a comfortable living doing so. The website is a blog style site with hundreds of articles that inspire, motivate, teach, and help people to take action and go after their dreams. Live your Legend has two courses that make up a majority of income that is generated from the website. The two courses teach a step by step method to finding ones passion, how to give value from that passion to help others, and then teaches how to set up and run an online business based on those passions. Product The first phase of the marketing mix, product refers to any product or service, be it physical or tangible. Live your Legend as mentioned in the above paragraph sells two online courses that teach how to find, set up, and run an online business. Product decisions must be made before delivering a product or service. Certain factors that must be taken into consideration are the brand, functionality of the product, quality of the product, product safety, and...
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...I will be discussing a few different cores of nursing. One core of nursing is delivering quality care to the needs of the patients and families. You can do this through education, teaching and listening. The second core of nursing is patient education. “Patient teaching regardless of what medical condition or injury a patient is being treated for the success of the recovery process will be greatly affected by how well educated the patient is about what they are suffering from. (Right Health Community, 2008) Nurses should teach the patient about medications, and how to manage their daily living. The last core of nursing is love and passion for others. Why is one in nursing if they do not have love and passion for others? Without love and passion, patient outcomes are affected. You can show love and passion in a variety of ways. One way of showing love and passion could be taking the time to talk to a patient who does not have visitors or family. Love and passion helps the patient know that you care and will be with them in their time of need. These are some great cores of nursing to go by. There are a couple different focuses of nursing. One focus of nursing is helping the staff and getting all work done. Another focus of nursing is the patient. Patients should always come first. Nurses spend a...
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...Deal With Your Co-workers A negative co-worker has the power to steal your passion. For instance, the jerk co-worker (and we have all experienced this person as a co-worker or a boss) is so rude that they can make you feel horrible about yourself and the job you are doing. What's worse is that they often treat other people with respect as they treat you horribly. It's hard to be passionate about what you do when you are being treated like that. However, dealing with the jerk will help you feel better. You can try confronting them and telling them your honest opinion of how they are treating you, but if that doesn't work, remember that a jerk is not happy with their life. There is something about their life that they hate, and it could be something serious, such as they have lost their family, have an illness, have been...
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...of making tests and assignments to evaluate students understanding and knowledge of the concepts of the course information. The assignments should help students understand components of the course and learn new interesting information on certain topics. The tests, which are made by the professor, should be based off of the information taught in class and should not have new information that the students have not learned before. The key duty of the professor is to help students learn the content of the course and provide them with the necessary tools for them to succeed. Everyone will have a different definition of the ideal university professor. In my opinion through the university experience, a professor's job is to teach and research. Teaching and researching to me are the professor's two key duties. Majority of college professors have a Ph.D. Holding a Ph.D., many can say that the professor is an expert in his field. With all the material the professor has learned in his education, he then teaches it to the students in the lecture, so that the information is "carried on". Professor's job is definitely not easy and very time-consuming, finding material, setting up a presentation, find textbook questions, etc. Researching is another important duty for the professor to complete. With his/her vast knowledge, the professor can find new information using present-day material. To me, there are two mandatory requirements of a university professor....
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...Reference………….…………………………………………………………………………….11 April 21, 2014 Susan Williams DeVry University Subject: Career choice for Susan Williams INTRODUCTION In the United States students often graduate with an idea of the career path they will go down. There are some students who have no idea what direction or career path they are going to take once they have received their diploma. There are some who change the course of their career path they have been educated for in mid-stream or after graduating from college. I have a student, Susan Williams who wants to travel and use her degree at the same time. Her degree is in Business Administration with a concentration in accounting. The student wants to travel and teach children because that is where her real passion is. Although she can possibly use her business administration/accounting and travel, teaching children is on the other end of the spectrum in comparison to her education. I don’t think she would enjoy her travels or teaching as much if she did both. Purpose The purpose of this report is to determine the career path for Ms. Williams. Teaching is a great career and very rewarding, accounting is equally rewarding. The primary goal of this report is to show which path in a chosen field would be better for Susan, the pros and cons, and...
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...Precious Parker Orientation to Education Professor Lewis Philosophy Statement As I was growing up, I always wanted to pursue a profession in something that I could use my creative mind and hands for, such as art. It was my senior year of high school when I decided I wanted to pursue a career in education, specifically early childhood. Most of my family works in the field of education, so I believe that is why I have always had a passion for children and why I work well with them. I always knew how important educators were in our society, but it wasn’t until I started Jumpstart that I actually experienced this importance. With the combination of experience and this philosophy statement, I have begun to think about why I want teach, whom I want to teach, how and what I want to teach, and where I want to teach? These questions are important to answer for anyone who wants to be an educator because you have to passion and understanding why you want to be in the field of education. Children are the future leaders of this country; therefore, it is our job to supply them with the foundation and fundamentals to succeed in life. Education is very important in today’s society, and it all starts at a young age. Without the proper foundation and fundamentals, children will fall behind in school, which makes it is very hard for children to catch up as they move on to the next level and pursue their education. That is why it is important to have influential role models that instill the...
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...influential in my choice of wanting to be a music educator. The biggest influence has been my own band director Scott Pries. He has shown to me that to be a good musician and educator you need to have passion about what you’re teaching. Along with that you need to be hard working and dedicated. Music has been a large part of my life, so it just makes sense that the largest influence to my career choice has been my band director Scott F. Pries. He has always pushed my abilities as a musician making me better than I ever thought I could be. Seeing him teach for six years I have gotten to know Mr. Pries very well. His main concern is making sure everyone is being as successful...
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...Also, the author is trying to show a message that you can do pretty much anything you set your mind to and that you should not care what others think about it. The quote from the essay that stated, “I throw my weight against their locked doors. The doors hold. I am smart. I am arrogant. I am lucky. I am trying to save our lives.” means that whenever he got older and tried to teach other kids how to read and write, there were some who would listen and want to learn and there are some who don’t listen. This is because since they are lower class by society they are used to not usually being able to learn so they don’t think they are supposed too. What Sherman Alexie is trying to say in this quote is that he tries to help them, but they don’t want to listen. He will try anyways though because he doesn’t want them to be different and not have the same opportunities as everyone else. In section 8 of “Superman and Me”, Sherman Alexie states, “The Indian kids crown the classroom. Many are writing their own poems, short stories, and novels…. Then there are the sullen and already defeated Indian kids who sit in the back rows...
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