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Shakespeare's Language
566 wordsUnderstanding Shakespeare: The Power of Footnotes and Paraphrase Objectives: The students will... 1. Compare Shakespeare's language to a moderately familiar foreign language. 2. Apply the techniques of reading a foreign language to reading Shakespeare. 3. Translate Shakespeare's English into modern English by means of class discussion, teamwork and individual study. Methods: The teacher begins by presenting an identifiable text to the students in a foreign language. The students are to identify ...
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Use Other Alternative Assessments
2,329 wordsIf one was to draw a continuum on a piece of paper to plot out the different methods of language education the transactional method would be close to the center of the line, with the transmissional method and organic / Romantic method on the opposing ends. The transmissional method of instruction stresses direct instruction, usually with drill and practice type of exercises. The lessons are skills based with a stress on part to whole language. This refers to experiencing words as their individua...
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Student's Freedom Of Speech
1,193 wordsThe First Amendment: Free of Expression In 1787 our forefathers ratified the constitution of the United State sof America, which contains the most important document to any American citizen, the Bill of Rights. The first amendment of the Bill of Rights states: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the establishment thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech; or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the govern...
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Leader Of The Free World
664 words"Leadership Is an Action Not Position " Leadership can be shown through any person in any type of situation. In a classroom discussion, on the playing field, or in public a sign of a leader is evident. A person is born a leader. Certain humans know what to do when the time calls for it. Many people in positions can be entitled a leader such as basketball players. Even a famous movie star can be given this title. These people are not true leaders. True leaders are the belaboring teachers and the ...
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Way A Students Face Lights
574 words1. I have now been a teacher for 2 years and am currently teaching at Einstein middle school. 2. I knew I wanted to teach ever since I was a young girl. I would love playing with my friends, and would always pretend as if I was a teacher and my friends were students. I even had a little blackboard that I would write on and pretend that I knew what I was saying. Eventually I grew a passion for teaching and as I grew older people would always tell me that when I explained things to them they under...
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Educational Outcome Of Minority Students
4,969 wordsProspectus It is my hypothesis that diverse backgrounds have a great effect on the ability for a student to learn. I am not suggesting that a student from one background is less likely to learn than the student from a completely different background. I do predict that if educators do not take to heart the diverse backgrounds of their students at both the lower and upper levels of education than the student will suffer in one degree or another. My focus group will be high school and college stude...
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Students And Teachers
1,125 wordsThe Power Issue "But Miss Star, I really have to go. If you don't let me go now, I am just gonna go in my pants."Okay Joseph. You can go in a few minutes."It's been a few minutes. Can I go now"Wait one more minute Joseph! Someone is already in the bathroom". I stood there and looked at my watch for a few minutes. "Okay. It's been a minute. You can go now."I don't have to go anymore". After our bathroom break I took my third graders, including Joseph, outside to play kickball. Not five minutes ha...
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Pressure On Students And Teachers
1,085 wordsMost controversies over education are centered around the question of how strictly standards should be upheld. The concern over whether or not flunking students is appropriate or even in the best interest of the student is a widely discussed topic. The argument often begins with students just starting school where the question of standardized testing for kindergartners arises. The majority of people are actually against such testing because they feel that a child who is labeled as a failure at s...
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Teachers Philosophy
962 wordsPhilo- means love and -sophia means wisdom. So what does philosophy mean? Philosophy can mean many things. It could be the freedom to reflect, the ideas behind the force of question such as What is life? , Who is god? , Who am I? , etc. Philosophy could be a persons beliefs. Philosophy dates back a long time. It started with Plato talking about platonic forms, moving onto Socrates who used analogies. Others such as Locke, Rousseau, and Dewey also put our their views of philosophy. To me philosop...
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Shakespeare Students
546 wordsPhilosophy in Practice One of the techniques used most often by theatre high school teachers is role-playing. The reasons that this technique is often used are numerous. When students read a text silently some of the nuance contained in the meaning can be lost. This is particularly true when dealing with a play, or anything containing multiple characters. Reading the piece aloud can help them to understand the connotation as well as the denotation. In the theatre, how a passage is spoken will de...
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High School Student
285 wordsMovie: The Paper Chase The most famous quote in the movie, 'The Paper Chase', would have to be when Kingsfield says, 'You " ll come in here with a scull full of mush and leave thinking like a lawyer. ' This movie should teach a high school student that going to college demands a lot more than the 'easy street' they " ve been riding in high school. The movie teaches that you need to be able to put up with the arrogance of the rich and uppity people that attend an Ivy League school. They are very ...
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Professor Keating Approach
450 wordsLesley Spode k 02/07/00 A Representation of A Teacher In the film, Dead Poets Society, Professor John Keating sets an example for all future educators. He takes a different approach to teaching or being a teacher by expressing the need for students, people of all ages, to take risks in life. By taking risks in life he not only refers to bungee jumping or skydiving, he refers to taking risks in learning, in ones thinking. In this scene I show here professor Keating stands up on his desk and urges...
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Respecting Elders Parents And Teachers
643 words(FATHER): Billy! Billy! (BILLY): What do you want (FATHER): Make your bed and clean your room, all right (BILLY): All right. I'll do it later. Just don't nag me about it. 15 MINUTES LATER (FATHER): Billy, did you finish everything (BILLY): NO! I don't want to do it! (muttering under the breath) Do it yourself. Doesn't this sound familiar Billy illustrates a disturbing trend popular in the youth of today's society: disrespecting elders. The main victims of this unfortunate situation are the paren...
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Student And The Learning Environment
1,695 wordsAssume you have 2 classes, one group of 30 adolescents in a day-school, and one group of 15 adults who are learning English for business reasons. How do you think these two classes would differ? It should be understood from the outset that the three guiding considerations in any classroom context are the teacher, the student and the learning environment. These close and sometimes complex inter-relationships need to be taken into account when discussing the differences between a class of 30 adole...
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Student's Current Classroom Teacher
851 wordsAll staff members are encouraged to consider and to refer students for Gifted & Talented services, throughout the school year, for one or more of the five talent areas. The Iowa Test of Basic Skills is administered in October to all students in grades 3 - 8. The G / T (gifted and talented) facilitator will examine these scores to screen for students with intellectual and academic ability. An overall LPR score of 95% and higher on the ITBS, or WISC-R, is an indicator. The G / T facilitator will t...
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Students And The Parents
2,349 wordsAfter reading through the curriculum documents, I have one question that continues to nag at me. In each subject of the documents, it discusses three very important roles, the teacher's, the students, and the parents. My questions are this: How much depends on these roles being met? In many households today, parents do not take an active role in their children's learning. How is the teacher to enforce that parents are meeting their end of the agreement? I know from my own experience when working...
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Way Teachers Pile On Homework
524 wordsWhat is it about homework that makes it seem so daunting? Could it be that today's kids just can't seem to keep up with it? Perhaps busy schedules prevent student from completing the assignments? Or could it be the fact that teachers feel the need to assign excess amounts of homework. The way teachers pile on homework you would think, teachers work on commission. People weren't kidding when they said, too much of a good thing, can be a bad thing. Let's analyze for just a moment, the original int...
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Teacher And Student And The Roles
768 wordsIn the essay The "Banking" Concept of Education, Paulo Freire makes an attack on the conventional way of teaching. He facetiously gives the style of teaching the title the "banking concept". This common method of teaching is, in Freire's words, .".. in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiques and makes deposits which the student is neither given the chance nor allowed to think for his or her self; the stude...
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Academic Labels
533 wordsFor my research topic, I have chosen to examine the cause and effect of labelling in schools in the 21st century. I have decided to choose this topic for two main reasons. Firstly, the subject of academic achievement, and the reasons why some students appear to do well or poorly based on gender or ethnicity is very topical, and widely discussed in modern day Britain. Secondly, there is debate in sociology over how much labelling can affect students, or if it has any relevance at all. Indeed, lab...
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Students In The Learning Experience
4,177 wordsI decided that I wanted to be a teacher when I was at the age of thirteen. I decided this because I always wanted to know what was on the other side of being a student, what it was like to be the teacher teaching, not the student learning. But throughout my education I have learned that learning is a continuous process. Teachers will be students for the rest of their lives. This is one of my philosophies of teaching- that learning will be a process that will go on forever, whether a person becom...
