...How a teacher in a nursery uses four different communication skills and applies values of care I went into a preschool and I was observing how a teacher uses tone of voice, tone of pace, clarifying and posture. All of these skills are briefly described how they used the communication and what will happen if they didn’t use that skill. All of these examples I used are from what I observed and I didn’t use names I made them up to maintain confidentiality. Tone of voice: Tone of voice means the way our voice response and the way we speak to others, this means what we say might not be important but how we say the words is really important, tone of voice is really important because it defines quality of a persons voice, for example our pitch, volume and characteristics of our voice. There are lots of different types of tones in our voice and they happen naturally for example: when you’re angry you speak quickly and really loud, having a chat/conversation with friends our tone changes to a clam, slow and lots of different types of tone which puts people to an ease, flat tone of voice is usually depressed and exhausted and when ever a person is talking another person can figure out what kind of tone you have and that tone often reflects your mood. Teachers in a nursery use tone of voice very effectively they use that by being calm to everyone for example: when Dylan broke some toy the teacher try make him understand that what he did was wrong in a calm/friendly tone this is useful...
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...by Harmer (2001) that pronunciation is what learners have to concern with because sound or voice is a part of pronunciation. It is in the line with Brown’s statement. Brown (1974) states that one of the significant benefits of pronunciation is to helps student feel confident when speaking. However, pronunciation is one of the most difficult problems that faced by the students largely. It usually becomes the largest constraint to overcome when trying to achieve fluency in speaking. There are many students that have studied English for many years start from elementary school until Senior High School, but they are unable to speak like native speakers because of their inability to pronounce the sounds of words properly. This problem of course can create ambiguity and difficult to understand for the people who became their interlocutors. Sometimes there are some students who able to speak fluently because they knew many vocabulary to speak and also have a high confidence, but they cannot pronounce the words properly. This problem also happens in Islamic Senior High School 1 Serang. Based on my interview with Atang Santosa, an English teacher there, I found that there are many students who have problem with their pronunciation in speaking especially in the first grade. Some students in Islamic Senior High School 1 Serang (MAN 1 Serang) have problem with vowels and consonants. This problem may be caused by their habit in speak Bahasa. They have difficulty in pronouncing words because...
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...listening class. That is why many of them need to practice listening basics, and it is necessary for English teachers to realize the importance of how to make listening class more interesting so that they can make progress in listening comprehension. Natural Reader software might be one of the solutions to solve the difficulties on listening comprehension class. Listening is a skill that is rarely taught in the classroom but is frequently used to communicate even in final exam at Senior High School. That is why listening is an important skill that empowers students to learn more deeply and effectively. A good situation in listening has to be created with proficiency of receiving, interpreting and reacting to the messages received from the communication sender. Practicing listening technique in most of Indonesian senior high school are plenty, but unfortunately, most of them are also ineffective. It occurs because most of the techniques that used in listening classes are common. According to Richard, “technique is implementational- that which actually take place in the classroom.” The techniques such as listening with tape recorder, radio tape, or dictation are not very effective in practice as many disturbances will occur. Like the media such as tape recorder or radio tape can be the source of disturbance. Old devices usually have many noises are very irritating students. Teachers who teach listening practice by dictation will get exhausted speaking the entire listening material and...
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...Behavioral Disorders One of the key responsibilities as an educator is to help students learn. A major problem when trying to accomplish this goal is managing classroom behaviors. It is challenging for an educator to teach in a chaotic environment. As a result, teachers seek different routes to manage these behaviors. This research was designed to give layouts and strategies on making the management of these behaviors easier. The first behavior that will be discussed is tattle-telling. The Webster Dictionary defines tattling as “ telling a parent, teacher, etc., about something bad or wrong that another child has done. Presuming how to deal with what we regularly call “tattle-tattling” can take a lot of time and unnecessary energy, and as a consequence, teachers tend to tell students to not tell on each other. Actually, some schools go as far as banning “tattle-telling”, and teachers are uncertain about how to enforce the “no-telling” rules. An article entitled, “ What to do About Tattling?” laid out four common reasons for why children tattle: Legitimate Concerns, Need for Information, Wish for Attention and Recognition, and Limited Problem Solving Skills. 1. Legitimate Concerns: Students may have good reasons for concern about others’ behavior and its effects on them and their friends. We need to fully embrace this truth rather than just pay lip service to it. 2. Need for information: Some children may be testing the limits or trying to figure out...
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...RESEARCH/LITERATURE REVIEW OF ISSUES RELATED TO CHILDREN LIVING IN POVERTY _________________________________________________ A PAPER SUMBITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR FS 5833: FAMILY ECONOMICS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY SCIENCES TEXAS WOMAN’S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION BY SARAH KERAMATI ______________________________________________ DENTON, TEXAS APRIL 2012 Introduction Over the last few decades, the world has drastically changed, and the effect on the family dynamic has been profound. Today, there are more single parents, dual earner couples, and parents with more than one job living in both rural and urban areas in the United States than at any time in history (Miller, 2007). There is approximately one in five American children who live below the national poverty level (Meyer, Cancian & Nam, 2007). In today’s society, many people live below the poverty line and those numbers continue to increase because of our high unemployment rates. The Census Bureau reported that 12% of Americans live in poverty. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, the poverty level in 2009 for a family of four was $22,050. Working parents have no time and their finances are often strained. Welfare reform in the United States may pressure single mothers to be employed even though child care is expensive and they may barely make minimum wage (Miller, 2007). If a child experiences poverty during their preschool...
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...SOCIETY WOULD PREFER TO HAVE FEMALE TEACHER COMPARED TO MALE TEACHER. DISCUSS ABOUT THE CAUSES. 1. Women have more patient They will be more patient and would not raise her voice even as we keep on asking questions when we are unable to understand. Next, she would be very concerned on our performance in school and would really display hopes for us to succeed. Good female teachers are more able to give encouragement to students with gentler voices. 2. Empathy It is true that many more women will also appear more empathic than men do. This isn’t always the case, of course, but it is for the majority of teachers. Empathy is important when it comes to teaching, and therefore one must be able to emotionally connect with the students. Having high emotional intelligence, of course, is important for anyone who works within the teaching industry. Knowing how to help the student overcome thoughts of whatever problems they are having will be key in getting them to focus on the task at hand. Female, might feel the need to help a lot more and would often guide their students through a particular process if they find they are having difficult. 3. Alternative methods Being more open to new ideas, women will also be likely to try out alternative methods. This is particularly useful for those who are finding it difficult to reach certain students. Men always have more problems than women in present because most of them do not have and know how to teach. Compare to women, they...
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...Harry got detention. How you ask? It started on a fateful Friday when Harry Pitts, a lazy A+ seventh grader, went to his last hour, Language arts. Harry had black hair, medium build, and always wore soccer shirts. His teacher, Stan Still, was a mean teacher who had, black hair, was going through the life of obesity, wore glasses, and today he wasn’t in a good mood. “Hey, Harry, grab a dry-erase marker,” Mr. Still yelled across the room. Harry looked at the place where they kept the dry-erase markers and saw it was just a few inches away from the teacher. All Stan Still had to do was to stand up to reach it. So Harry did what he thought he should do. He stood up and walked across the room to his teacher, looked him in the eyes… and slapped him across the face. The room precipitously became silent. All the students stared at Harry Pitts and Mr. Still. Stan...
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...State of America's Children® 2010 Report Billie Jo Gary Argosy University PSY260 Abstract This assignment I will discuss child poverty from the “State of America's Children® 2010 Report”. I found that poverty does not exclude anyone. Poverty hits every race, every country, anytime, it is a sad truth that negatively effects the lives of many children and families poverty continues to rise and it is now at an all time high. Not to mention the unemployment rate. What can we do to put a stop to these rising factors? Introduction Over the last decades, the world has made many changes, and the effects of those changes have profoundly been felt by many families everywhere. Today, children are being raised in single parent homes and it is hard when one parent has to work two jobs because absence of the parents can have very drastic effects on the child. (Miller, 2007). Sadly the numbers are at an all time high, when it comes to families and children living in poverty. Unemployment rates are growing and will continue to grow. Sadly more and more families are out of work and having to live without their basic needs being met. Many children...
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...|Degree Name: |Master of Educational Leadership (MEdLeadership) | |Publisher: |University of Waikato | |Abstract: |Managing challenging behaviour in the classroom is a problem faced by all teachers. Challenging behaviour is any | | |form of behaviour that interferes with children's learning or normal development; is harmful to the child, other | | |children or adults; or puts a child in a high risk category for later social problems or school failure. The purpose| | |of this study was to gain an understanding of the link between undesirable behaviours of students and their effect | | |on classroom learning culture, as one of the key factors in behaviour management is in understanding why challenging| | |behaviour occurs. The qualitative nature of this research allowed for the exploration of both teacher and student | | |narratives by learning from their experiences regarding challenging behaviour and its effect on a classroom learning| |...
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...goal of education is transmission of the culture, the preservation of the past and the present and the development of intellect (Farooq, 1994). Education should help in improving the capabilities and skills of the students and introduce new ideas and values among them (Khalid, 1983). Education is the process through which knowledge is transmitted from one individual or section of society to another individual or section. The teacher is the most important factor of the teaching-learning process. The school’s most important influence is the teacher. He sets the tone of the classroom and establishes the mood of the group. He is the authority figure providing the direction for behavior. He is a model and is consciously imitated (Bernard, 1972).. The importance of teacher is recognized throughout the world (Panda and Mohanty, 2003). Good teachers are essential for the effective functioning of education system and for improving the quality of learning process. Job satisfaction enables teachers to put their best to do the assigned work. Teachers develop performance style characteristics to their ways of relating to the world, perceptually as well as cognitively. A person is, therefore, likely to act in a way that maximizes the use of his aptitudes. Similarly, teacher’s positive attitude towards teaching and higher aspiration level determines his positive perception of the environments. An...
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...developed by behavioral psychologist to understand a child’s challenging behavior (FBA) Functional Behavior Assessment and (PBS) Positive Behavioral Support. These two strategies are to discover what is triggering the behavior, where the child is receiving the behavior from, and find a solution to replace the negative behavior with a more positive behavior. Collecting data to figure out the problems would be discussed and reviewed with the support team. When you do this you can collaborate to find the cause of the behavior challenges and find out perspectives of why they believe the child behaves this way, and what could be done as a teacher to help the child’s goal towards better behavior. Identifying the behavioral problem, figuring out a solution, finding the functions of the problem. Asking question about the environment that the child grew up in and currently living in. Once you have found all the problems needed to be found, you then would have to create a behavior support plan. Teachers using the assessment tool called A-B-C, it helps to separate the main areas needed to solve the problem so you can observe the details a little better. A-B-C stands for Antecedent Behavior Consequence “Chart offers opportunities to note the setting, time and frequency behaviors occur, what happened just before...
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...6 years old, I began to play the piano. My mom said that playing the piano can enhance your music skill and also can improve your voice. Six years later, I stopped learning piano from teacher, because I became a middle school student and didn’t have enough time to practice. Piano became to my interest and I only played it when I was really tired after study. But I still really loved singing. I often went to the karaoke with my friends and began to singing in front of people. And I really think my voice skill was enhanced But I really had a problem when I was singing, that I can’t put my chin down when I sing in a very high voice. However I didn’t realize this problem. Last summer, I went to the karaoke with my mom, she said:” Take a voice class next semester; I think you didn’t know how to sing when the note is really high. And the teacher will help you about this, and your chin always up when you sing but you never realized that.” So at the very beginning of this semester I changed a class to this class, and want to improve my singing skill. And just like my mother said that I can’t put my chin down when I was singing. And professor also pointed out this problem. And my facial expression was not very rich when I was singing, that seems like that I didn’t put myself in to that song. Just like a mission to complete. I worked on the chin problem and also the sight singing. Fortunately, the experience of playing the piano made me identify the tone accurate. And I don’t have to...
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...John Marvin J. Balinuyos Relevant Laws for Teachers III-13 HC BSE-English Prof. Jerick S. Ferrer Summary of Ideas Mr. Benjo Basas, alumnus at the Philippine Normal University and the current chairperson of Teacher’s Dignity Coalition, lectures on The Basic Education and the Challenge to Filipino Teachers, which primarily voices the teacher’s right, held on March 12, 2014, Wednesday at BPS Auditorium, Philippine Normal University-Manila.. In the forum, Mr. Basas talked about some very important declarations in law which have not been true or have not practiced over the course of time. This revolves mainly on Article XIV, Section 5 and of course, the Magna Carta for Public School Teachers. It was discussed in the forum the lack of facilities that will enable the teachers to easily teach the students. In the Philippines, teachers face different challenges such as lack of books, chairs, and classrooms. They may also face the challenge of low salary and high expenses. Even though they have these types of challenges, our teachers still fulfill their sworn duty, which is to teach and ensure the learning of their students. Mr. Basas truly touched the topic of Magna Carta for Public School Teachers that ensures protection of teachers’ social and economic status in the country. Future teachers should be prepared as early as possible especially the conflict they will be facing. Mr. Basas wanted the audience to realize how important understanding the nature...
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...Capacity Building Series SECRETARIAT SPECIAL EDITION #20 Student Voices Teacher: What happens in your mind when you read a chapter book? Student: I dream of something – like I’m flying or I can be a superhero. In my mind I can be anything I want from those books. Conversation with Grade 2 student Student Identity and Engagement in Elementary Schools Developing awareness, understanding and respect for what matters to students has become critical in education today because “learning can no longer be understood as a one-way exchange where we teach, they learn.” Rather, “it is a reciprocal process that requires teachers to help students learn with understanding” (Willms, Friesen, & Milton, 2009). In the shift from a transmission to a discourse model of education, researchers verify what classroom teachers know intuitively – that ensuring students are listened to and valued and respected for who they are leads to greater student engagement which, in turn, leads to greater student achievement (Cummins, et al., 2005; Flessa et al., 2010; Leithwood, McAdie, Bascia, & Rodrigue, 2006; Willms, Friesen, & Milton, 2009). In their recent work on education reform, Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley (2009) also build on this insight, urging education leaders and policy makers to ensure that students are recognized as “partners in change rather than merely targets of change efforts and services – more involved in their own learning and learning choices, actively consulted about the quality...
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...Joanne Arel 11530131 Assignment 4 Prevention of Bullying As we know, prevention on bullying is an ongoing process that we, as educators, must continually work on. Often, children who are labeled as ‘bullies’ are misunderstood by their peers and adults. They tend to be the victim in other areas of their lives. It is necessary for us as responsible adults to understand how these behaviors that the bullies exhibit develop, so that we can work to not just ‘punish’ but rehabilitate and heal. I feel this is the area in which I have excelled. I have a zero-tolerance policy, teach the steps of problem-solving, have classroom expectations, and praise/reinforce good behaviors demonstrated by bullies. The one thing I think would be a good idea would be to have a written contract and to contact parents more based on positive behavior. Prevention of Victimization The effects of bullying can be traumatizing to children (the victims), and can often lead into their adult lives. This trauma can be seen firsthand in tragic events that have happened in our country. Some events, like Columbine, Matthew Shepard, etc. get a lot of media coverage, while others do not. I have learned, and witnessed through my own teaching experience, that the victims often are the ‘forgotten group’, not the very popular or very unpopular kids. As educators, we so frequently give our attention to the bully, when the victim needs our support just as much, if not more. Victims, by definition are the...
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