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My professional goals with regard to the development of students with whom I work is to enable them to develop a better grasp of the English language and to advance their English language skills in reading, speaking and comprehension. In a sense, my goals are intertwined with their academic success. However, on another level, I can identify professional goals that are independent of my students' outcomes. These are to come to class prepared, enthusiastic about what I am teaching, and always in a positive mood. If I can meet these three goals, I can effect an atmosphere in my classroom that facilitates constructive learning, that promotes engagement, and that supports everyone's desire to want to be there. A teacher who projects surliness and lack of preparation is more than likely to develop an environment in which negativity is the result. It is better to promote positivity in the classroom because enthusiasm is a strong factor in the way that we all engage with our duties, challenges, and tasks at hand (Landecker, 2009). Likewise, as Knight (2009) shows, the teacher's professional demeanor plays a tremendous role in how students' perceptions are shaped. Finally, I would like to engage
Incorporating parental engagement into student development is an important way to ensure students' academic success (Vera, Israel, 2012).
My view of the student as a learner is based on the constructivist framework: I believe active learning is a good way for students to engage with the learning material; I also find cognitive theory to be helpful in that new material can be presented to students that builds on their prior knowledge in an effective way (Jensen, 2005; Dobbs, 2011). Thirdly, classical theory is a very helpful tool as well because it allows me to discuss openly with the students questions and issues related to the text: I can ask them questions much like Socrates or Plato would have asked of their students in order to challenge them and direct them towards identifying a solution or way forward on their own (Kristjansson, 2014). My view of teaching has changed because of these theories because prior to interacting with them, I felt that teaching was primarily an activity in which I the teacher was active and students were to sit there and be passive. But these theories have shown me that the students actually learn more and learn better when they are actively engaged with the material, which occurs through active learning (constructivist theory), cognitive learning (Gestalt theory), and classic inquisition (classical theory).
My role in the development of student learning has changed because of my new theoretical knowledge in the sense that I have a greater appreciation of the methods that I may use to help enable students to reach…
Academic Success I truly believe that my strong capacity for leadership capabilities is one of the things that will no doubt instill me with high amounts of academic success. One way that I feel I am able to exhibit strong amounts of leadership is via the fact that I don't panic under pressure. The longer that I've been alive, I've come to realize this is actually a very rare and
academic environment students are under extreme pressure to turn assignments in on time as well and to get good grades on those assignments. Under these conditions students will often choose the path of least resistance or the easy way out and plagiarize from some document. In this essay we will briefly examine what plagiarism is and the challenges students face when attempting to avoid plagiarism. Ultimately it will be
Academic Engagement For many years the educational system has sought to find ways to improve academic engagement among students with emotional and behavioral disorders. Many educators have resorted to the use of token economies to encourage these students to display appropriate behavior in the classroom. The purpose of this discussion is to explore Academic Engagement and the effects of a token economy on students with emotional and behavioral disorders. This discourse
Promoting the Success of Aboriginal Students in Today's Education Aboriginal education has experienced significant developments throughout the first half of the 20th Century because of the establishment of several learning institutions and programs that primarily focus on providing Aboriginal students with a Western education. During this period, several federally-funded schools such as mission residential schools in remote regions have been established to help ensure these students obtain Western education. These efforts
Personality and Academic Success Personality is very important to academic success. Everyone has a unique personality and he or she must identify it in order to know what is the best method for to study. Learning approaches are not the same for everyone, because of differences and personality is a major factor in that. As Kiss, Kotsis and Kun (2014) note, there is a relationship between intelligence, personality style and academic
Gabrieli asserts that schools use time in an outmoded way: schools used to take summers off because children would help at the farms to bring in the crops in the old days -- or because summers are hot and school houses need to be cool; but today these are not really factors (Koonce, 2016). Therefore, according to this side of the argument, time can be better managed and -- in
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