Essays on The Lesson

Exceptionalities are present in almost all learning institutions and the key to face such cases differ quite significantly from the norm. Such cases include disability both visual and other physical features, slow and quick comprehension of knowledge and also mental disabilities. The plans for such kids should focus on comprehension, word study or phonics since they are addressed to children with a deviation from the standard. In this case, I will consider a child with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and one with speech impairment. The model lesson plan is divided into active teaching, guided practice and independent practice. ...

It is evident from the case that the teacher did not set clear goals and objectives of the lesson(s) such that the learners could relate or appreciate the entire course. Palmer (n.d) suggests that a teacher needs to device specific learning objectives and communicate the expected behavior during the lessons. Moreover, it is advisable to make the class format lively, engaging, and informative to the learners. Zaguan seems bored by the teacher, and this indicates a non-creative and engaging approach that makes the entire lesson boring. As a result, some of the students may lose interest to engage ...

Running Notes

The observation was that of child #111. #111 is a five year female. She has been enrolled in the kindergarten class for five months. I observed child #111 for two forty five minutes sessions. Over the course of the two sessions, a range of physical, social, emotional, cognitive and language development aspects were evaluated. Child #111 has an approximate height of 40 inches. She is white in skin color and her overall physical appearance appears to be generally in line with children her age. In essence, from her physical appearance, she is generally healthy. After being introduced to the ...

The principal characteristics of ADHD are reflected in the name of this disorder: it is attention deficit and hyperactivity, which are usually accompanied by impulsivity. On the other hand, we know that all children occasionally become too active, perform thoughtless acts and daydream about something. That means that the majority of children without exceptionalities also have the symptoms of ADHD, but their level is tolerable, so they are not considered to be exceptional. The presence of ADHD is determined when hyperactivity, impulsivity, and poor concentration, combined with a tendency to be easily distracted, begin to seriously interfere with the ...

One Sentence Lesson for Muddy Road

Harboring negative thoughts are more dangerous than positive actions, regardless of whether the action rendered supposedly counter an explicitly defined rule. Although it was a rule for monks not to go near females, it was evident that the act of carrying the girl was noble and without any malice. He could have done the same thing whether the girl was lovely or not.

Reflections about Parables

Parables are learned to be short and simple stories which provide readers with a lesson or moral. From the parable of the muddy road, it could be deduced that the lesson is about harboring negative thoughts ...

Dyscalculia is a problematic and well-known issue among kids and teenagers. Though it is a very popular, it still makes a list of discussion among scholars, psychologists, and just parents as well. Since this issue is extremely controversial, more and more scholars and psychologists are discovering it in order to make it more understandable. Dyscalculia is a condition which makes it difficult to deal with numbers. In other words, children who suffer from dyscalculia have problems with understanding math concepts. They know what exactly to do, but they don’t understand how to do it and how to use ...

Abstract

The growing demand for the competitive specialists justifies the particular attention and concern to the Malaysian students’ reading comprehension skills from the Malaysian authorities. The introduction of teaching the Malaysian core school subjects in the English language (Yassin et al., 2009) provided the continual attempts and experiments to define the most efficient way to decrease achievement gaps in the reading of Malaysian pupils. Starting from the 5th grade, students extend their vocabulary through reading (Zubairi & Sarudin, 2009). The following research proposes the method of using “Reading Cues’ as scaffolding answering the closed or WH-questions to improve the performance of ...

English curriculum

Maria needs an integrated English Curriculum that will enable her to improve her reading and writing skills, and subsequently, improve her class performance. English language learners are usually non-native speaker meaning that English is not their first choice. Therefore, they are likely to experience problems in their schoolwork as they have not yet mastered English, which is the medium of communication and instruction in school. They need help with the language so that they can understand the concepts taught and that way; they will achieve the objectives set for their class work. Sometimes, these students may understand the concepts ...

1. How does the teacher gain the attention of the class? Does the teacher utilize different strategies to gain the attention at different times in the lesson? What conclusions can you draw about the strategy the teacher uses? The teacher gains the attention of the class by blowing the whistle. During the entire lesson, the teacher can be seen most of the times blowing the whistle top grab the attention of the students. However, at certain times he can calls the names of specific students to demand their attention or remind them of a particular activity. The teacher uses ...

In my academic life in this college, I have been performing poorly and if this trend continues I am going to lose my scholarship and be sent back home by my embassy and I have to pay all the money they have spent on my education. For that reason, I have developed a 14-day program that will enable me to improve my grades this semester. In this program, I will apply different leadership techniques such as visionary, coaching and affiliative. Visionary leadership is paramount in my case because I need to adopt a new educational direction (Benincasa, 2012). In ...

Paper One: Language Development and Cognitive Development

Developmental Domain: Language Arts/English/EFL Sequence of Events: Instructor began the lesson with an introductory activity, asking the students what they did the previous evening. Students were encouraged to answer questions about their daily activities. After this, students reviewed their homework assignment, which was a worksheet about the book that they’re reading. Students then read the next part of the book—Where the Wild Things Are—and did an in-class exercise with the new part of the text. Students were then asked to cut and color monsters for a play of the book.

Reflection.

Because this is an ESL classroom ...

Critical thinking is often the main goal of education rather than the simple accrual of knowledge. This is thematically discussed in Toni Cade Bambara’s The Lesson and David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Speech, Kenyon College. Bambara’s story shows an adult leading a group of children in an out-of-town educational trip. Wallace’s speech, on the other hand details the transition of graduates into adult life and of how their college education plays a role in it. Whereas Bambara’s story deals more on the racial themes and differences of inequality, Wallace’s speech focuses on the larger ...

Intervention Plan

Intervention Plan Every educational establishment deals with pupils or students that have to acquire a certain amount of knowledge. That is why every educational establishment sooner or later will have such students that won't be able to accomplish a program for various reasons. It can deal not only with studying problems but also with behavior deviations. In order to help pupils to reach the standards of an institution, a pupil studies in an intervention plan has to be developed. An intervention is always used to avoid punishments like detention, suspension, etc. It is an alternative solution to a problem. ...

“The Lesson” is a book authored by Toni Cade Bambara. It is set out to depict the contemporary life of the African Americans. It is a narrative of a black girl, Sylvia laments on the inequality of life after Miss. Moore takes her and her friend to the areas dominated by the wealthy. This paper aims to highlight the various valuable lessons that Miss. Moore, an educated and sophisticated black woman, teaches the young adults that they should view life beyond their nose as there is much more to life than they are accustomed. One of the major issues ...

Nowadays conflicts have been considered as a complex social phenomenon and inevitable attribute of social relationships (Druckman, 2006). While conflict situations the contradictions between people, groups and communities have been arisen and solved. In modern conditions, such a problem has been becoming up-to-date in terms of improving the emotional climate of interpersonal communication that is one of the main things about being succeeded in the process of communication. What is necessary for the conflict to be emerging is the practical conflict actions of all participants (in our case – the students of the 6th and the 7th grades, the teachers ...

Analysis of Children’s Physical and Mental Growth During Class time.

What activities does the teacher provide to facilitate physical movement in the lesson leads to improved concentration and attention in cognitive activities? Continuous physical activity during a lesson can enhance good concentration among the students. For instance, according to a study done, walking briskly for 30 minutes or 40 minutes can three times a week can enhance one’s concentration. It reduces the brain aging clock by 1-2 years and allows for proper brain activity. Most scholars suggest that having physical activity done during class, after or before class can go along ways increasing the children’s concentration in ...

1. When Kyle is mad, he spits at other students in the class. This sentence is an explanatory fiction because the first clause “Kyle is mad,” does not show causality with respect to spitting at other students. The statement is fictional because spitting is a type of anger. Thus, the statement re-states “effect” as “cause”. Moreover, the statement does not specify what makes Kyle mad in the first place. 2. Brad gets anxious in class because he has OCD. This sentence is an explanatory fiction because it simply states a symptom of OCD, anxiety. Such a statement is causal, ...

Describe one student’s behavior from either scenario, including relevant examples of how this behavior affects the learning environment.

Liz is unable to follow the class for longer period. She has problem with paying attention to teacher’s instructions and finishing projects. She is very active and often leaves her seat and wander around the classroom. This distracts other students and prods some of them to follow her example. It also disrupts the lesson’s flow and prevents some students from following the class. Describe a possible trigger (i.e. antecedent) of student’s behavior, including relevant examples from the scenario to justify your claim. Liza might have attention deficit disorder. She is not able to focus during the ...

Instructional Planning

Instructional Planning

One possibility for a differentiated instruction could be found in looking at the activity relating to the political election advertisements. While the topic is effective and denotes the understanding of whether the advertisements are truthful, it could be a wonderful idea to allow some students to actually write a political election advertisement themselves and then have the classmates reflect on whether the advertisement is in fact truthful. This differentiation instruction addresses the element that students may need another may to complete the activity if they learn in different ways than one another. For example, this allows those ...

Foremost, to understand the relevance of the identified themes of politics and economics, there is a need to consider the traditions that the authors represent in their works and the how their characters realize the problem with assuming the norms are acceptable. In other words, the following segments of this paper present the turning points of the identified narratives as they highlight the socio-economic divisions through the experiences of the characters. In “The Lesson” racial groups play a significant role in determining the opportunities that the people access. While in “The Necklace,” the social class to which one is ...

Immigration to Europe started after World War 2 and the rate continued to increase over the years into the 20th century up to date (" Debating Europe"). Western Europe experienced quite a significant percentage of immigration, especially after the World War 2. Currently, there are a sizable number of immigrants consisting of both Europeans and non-Europeans, who are defined as both illegal and legal immigrants. In 2004, the percentage even grew further after the European Union granted a permit for citizens to move freely within the EU nations ("Debating Europe"). The aspect of immigrations has received different reactions; some people ...

Learning

Regarding the ethical culture change, the lesson is that the process should follow three key steps of culture diagnosis, intervention, and evaluation. On ethical culture diagnosis, the lesson is that it should entail auditing both informal and formal systems. It should also consider the peoples’ assumptions. On the other hand, the intervention should involve both formal and informal systems change and could take long; 6 to 15 years. Also, intervention entails challenges in changing the informal systems; hence need to overcome them for success. Finally, there should be culture change evaluation over a long period. The evaluation should apply ...

The class that was observed was a vocabulary class in which the teacher was teaching students at a first grade level different terms that were related to travel. The class began with various vocabulary pictures of terms such as: the train station, bus station, the suitcase, and the hotel, (Class Demo Simulation, 2016). The way that the teacher engaged these subject matter was that they stuck the different vocabulary words on the white board and asked the students what they thought that they were going to be learning about in the lesson, (Class Demo Stimulation, 2016). This was a ...

Participants:

This study requires 30 participants aged between ten and twelve years. The main inclusion criterion for the study is that all the selected participants require a positive diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. Random sampling will find use in selecting the participants to be included into the study. Once selected, the participants will be divided into two main groups each with fifteen participants. These are the control and treatment group. Random assignment will find use in dividing the participants into the two groups. The control group will serve as the baseline for the study, while the treatment group will provide ...

“The Lesson” is the short story written by Toni Cade Bambara and its main topic is the social and economic inequality. This inequality can be seen in the position of the children and their families in the society. Miss Moore is also teaching them about social and economic inequality in her private lessons which happen during summer. The children symbolize the innocence and the young who are supposed to be educated about the world and about all of the injustice. The world functions in such a way that there are the privileged and the under-privileged groups of people. In “ ...

There are a number of lessons that one must learn as one goes through life. But the lesson of attempting to survive through the racial discrimination in the south is one lesson that is most valuable to those who lived in that era. Many blacks can now relate to the racial challenge that Jefferson face in Louisiana in 1948. Like many other blacks during the 1940’s, Jefferson faces death for a murder. Of course the laws during the period did not require much proof to convict a black man as much of the stories of the past reveal ...

3. The theme of the lesson was “Multiplication”. I think, that the teacher did a great job, his explanation style is really obtainable, most of the students answered his questions properly. It’s a good type of lesson, because the teacher made it in the form of conversation with students, so they listened very carefully, tried to show their best in this teacher-student dialogue. The teacher explained the subject, showed the examples for pupils, and then he gave them the question, e.g. “What is the product of 4 multiplied by 5?”, then he showed them the multiplication table, it ...

Assignment Description: To demonstrate competence in public speaking and group facilitation, students will be required to research one substance abuse prevention strategy/activity and present it to the class as the facilitator/teacher. In other words, you will create a lesson plan using the template on the next page and implement the activity with your peers enrolled in the course. The presentation should have an interactive component that enhances learning objectives for the topic. A strategy is different than a program in that a strategy is usually an activity that is part of a larger program.

Lesson Title: Marijuana Substance Abuse ...

Personal Weekly Journal: The Journey to Developing Skills

A fascinating week full of experience and much learning. I learn many things this week. I put the raw egg over the flat bread, then I put the cheese on the egg. What do I come up with? Dessert!!! Dessert is a common word used in the food industry to employ a variety of food course that entirely consist of a sweet array of foods. It involves such foods like the snacks, sweet soups, fruits or what is called pudding in other contexts. Delicacy sometimes may sometime be mistaken for flavor. The food was so sweet and we did ...

Instruction Design

Instructional Design Introduction The designation, development, and delivery of instructions follow a procedural process termed as instructional design (ID). It is an evaluation of the learning requirement and systematic improvement of teaching. An effective instructional design harbors various strategic plans to deliver learning experiences. The design facilitates the increment and enhancement of learning, creates a reliable and effective model of acquiring knowledge, as well as motivates the learners to engage each other and foster fast and deep studies. One significant purpose of instructional design is identifying the instruction outcomes. Essentially, the instructions must deliver their aims by making educational ...

Observation Class 1

The bridge class was an Integrated Collaborative Teaching (ICT) environment, which consisted of both grades 6 and 7 students. The lesson topic was about percentage and its effects on the price of commodities. For example, the concept of tax was explained in the simplest way possible. Real-life situations were used so that the students were able to put their learning into application later in life. Notecard system was used during the duration of the lesson. It was done by observing the activities of the children as the teacher walked around the classroom to facilitate the lesson. As for the ...

Many teachers have the same policy throughout their classrooms: stay seated, stay quiet, and copy your notes from the board. This may be a great tactic to use for students who are in middle and high school, but not for students who are in early education such as daycares. It would be great if all students could follow that model, but extremely drab and not very informative. This is why teachers, specifically teachers in early education, need to reevaluate how they conduct their lessons to better suit the learning capabilities of their students. Younger children learn differently than older ...

The purpose of this study is to illustrate the role of ethics in policy analysis and decision making. What is the real role of a policy analyst? There are situations where there is a conflict in interest between different stakeholders, what should the policy analyst do? Decision making can be a really tough call to do sometimes. Should the analyst go with the easier solution? In the upcoming case studies, we will reveal the importance of ethics in policy analysis in different fields. Let`s take a closer look on some of the key issues that we are going ...

Management

Mission Statement The mission statement of the City of Pompano Beach in Florida states that its basic purpose is to respond to emergency requests on a timely manner and ensure the cost effective delivery of highest quality of care for the visitors and residents of the city (Pompano Beach Florida Fire and Rescue, n.d.). Basically, PBFRs mission encompasses the need to address the social need for immediate relief during critical situations. The existing problem in communities includes untoward incidents involving fire and other circumstances that cause devastation. However, the need for immediate assistance to prevent further damage caused by ...