Essays about Teacher Page 9

My position in the school is of a Learning Support Assistant, supporting students with special needs. The school’s vision statement focuses on fostering spiritual, academic, cultural and interpersonal growth, whereas the mission statement states that the school has a diverse community of teachers, brothers, Alas, parent and students, who strive to create and nurture a…

Strong Interest Survey Results Based on my results, my highest themes are social, conventional and enterprising (SCE), this would mean that my foremost theme is social, followed by conventional and enterprising. The social theme is concerned with helping others, basically it  is found on occupations that involve nurturing, caring for and helping other people. The…

Introduction If the United States is one of the lithest nations of the world, why are we doing so poorly in education? The Common Core curriculum is a potential solution to this complicated problem. According to the New York Daily News, New York City students are doing poorly in both English and Math. And the…

Each field that the English Departments Offer are designed to improve analytical skills, critical thinking skills, reading comprehension, writing techniques, and etc. Fortunately, the field of creative writing is often overlooked and frowned upon when it comes to improving the necessary skills for students to use outside the academic world. This paper is designed to…

Marilyn Burns, the writer of the article “Nine Ways to Catch Kids Up,” acknowledges that there are always a few students in every class who are at risk. This understanding came to Burns when she had a conversation with a student named Paul regarding multiplication. She addresses three key factors in mathematics education, namely assisting…

According to Montessori (2007a, pg. 186), the transition from one stage to another always occurs after engaging in manual work with physical objects and focusing mentally. This process, known as ‘normalisation’, is essential for the development of individuals aged 0 to 18 years old. Montessori (2007a) further categorizes this lifespan into three periods: 0-6 years,…

In recent years there has been a focus on providing more resources for deaf and hard of hearing children. The teaching of American Sign Language has been encouraged for deaf and hard of hearing children because it allows young children a means to communicate at an age when language acquisition is critical. There has been…

I believe that most people do understand and realize the difference between the definition of corporal punishment and parents teaching, punishing or disciplining a child. To a child there is a huge difference between mommy or daddy spanking them and the teacher hitting them with a ruler or paddling them. Children understand that their parents…

Historically, we can see evidence of how thinking such as this was applied to various situations in Britain. In the past corporal punishment was seen an acceptable form of discipline not only in the classroom. The Royal Navy was infamous for its use of tyrannical and agonising forms of punishment. In the late seventeenth century,…

Corporal punishment is the most commonly used method to discourage misconduct among students in schools (Almond, 2008). It involves physically striking or causing exercise-induced pain as a formal means of correcting mistakes and disciplining students (Almond, 2008). While it has been abolished in many parts of Europe, it still exists in the United States and…