Amerie brings an excitement for life that has been a very welcome addition to our classroom. She always comes into class with a story or something going on in her life that she can’t wait to talk about. She brings that same level of enthusiasm to being a learner. No matter what we are doing or where she is Amerie conducts herself with consistency and tries to be the most great hearted scholar she can. She takes great pride in being “best desk” with her shoulder partner. Amerie has mastered our first 26 phonograms orally and in writing. She has good fluency and accuracy of our phonograms. She has correct letter formation but more practice will help to improve consistency of letter size. Her mastery of the phonograms allowed her to transition well into phonogram recognition in words. Phonemic Awareness is the building block for reading and she has a solid foundation for that. First sounds and rhyming words are also areas she excels in. In literature, Amerie shows sense of wonder and depth of inquiry. She gets invested in our stories and she asks questions that lead to a deeper understanding. She is participatory in our first, next and last discussions of stories and fables and draw pictures to show that …show more content…
She is a great hearted scholar who consistently shows responsibility, integrity, citizenship and friendship. She shows both responsibility and integrity in the way that she follows directions. She does it both when she is prompted to and also when it is part of our routine and she isn’t directly prompted to. She displays citizenship in her respect for our campus, our room and her classmates. She displays friendship in the way that she came into a class after relationships had already began to take form and made herself available as a friend. The only virtue we have struggled with on occasion is honesty. Amerie is a joy to have in class and truly helps to build the fabric of our
Knowledge of onset and rime allows students to read unknown words based on existing word knowledge and the ability to build word families (Pinnell & Fountas, 1998, p. 236) based on rime sounds. The introduction of phonemes during phonological awareness occurs in the last level, where explicit instruction is used to teach students how to detect, segment, count, blend and manipulate separate phonemes (Yopp & Yopp, 2009, p. 3). Strategies to support phonological awareness includes counting and clapping out both sentences and syllables, rhyme riddles, guess which object (Yopp & Yopp, 2009, p. 8), segmenting words requiring students to blend back together and instruction of rhyme identification (Fellows & Oakley, 2010, p. 190). Rhyme identification can be explored through song and nursery rhymes, grouping words according to onset and rime (McDevitt & Ormrod, 2004, p. 331), rhyming games such as roll a rhyme (Fellows & Oakley, 2010, p. 190) and cumulative reading texts. Children not exposed to different forms of rhyming within the home environment will need explicit instruction in how to determine what a rhyming word and what it is. As the concept of rhyme is normally introduced before developing reading ability, students struggling with identifying sounds may benefit from picture cards to introduce the concept, allowing them to group and identify rime
As solely a student, I will tell you that Lauren is an amazing student. In a classroom environment, Lauren is knowledgeable about many subjects, participates often, and always seeks to learn more. Specifically in social studies, Lauren has an extensive knowledge of international, historical, dates; events; and people. With every book that we read in English, Lauren is able to find metaphors that I never would have noticed.
I found Ms. Young to be eager, enthusiastic and sensitive to her approach to succeed in my class. Her positive outlook played out well during her experience in my class. Ms. Young has a sincerity and willingness to work hard that will serve her
Beginning with the first day of class, Amy has impressed me as being exceptional in every sense of the word. Amy excels in all areas, particularly the domains of scholarship, character, citizenship, and leadership.
Complainant, who is African-American, alleges that Respondent’s employee had a scowl on her face, talked down and attempted to belittle him, but was extremely helpful to a Caucasian customer. Respondent asserts that denies that its employee subjected Complainant to differential terms and conditions based on his race. Respondent asserts that Complainant requested and received the services, in-person hearing regarding his parking tickets, that he requested.
Honorable teachers are those who are a daily encouragement and inspiration and it commonly goes unappreciated. However, the gratitude I feel toward Diane Starkey is insurmountable because of the significant impact she has made in my life. Starkey has given me wisdom in her classroom, advice for life, and taken me by the hand and been one of the most remarkable friends I have had.
The atmosphere she created in her classroom was unlike any teacher I’d ever had. If there’s one thing I could say, her class was never boring. Whether she was wearing a witch hat waving around a plastic sword – in correlation to Macbeth, or jamming out with an air guitar to Iron Maiden - pertaining to Dante’s Inferno. She could include anyone’s interest to make sure learning was fun for everyone. The love and compassion she has for teaching radiates off of
Hannah was a very sweet and cooperative young lady and I enjoyed my time with her during this assessment period. She is very compliant and willing to do what is necessary to develop compensatory skills that will help her in her academics.
Culture is the way people view their world. Through culture, beliefs are born. What a person believes is directly associated with their behavior. Broome, (2006) states "cultural sensitivity can be defined in the broadest sense to be an awareness and utilization of knowledge related to ethnicity, culture, gender, or sexual orientation in explaining and understanding situations and responses of individuals in their environment.” While assessment tools aid in diagnosis and treatment, to be effective, cultural sensitivity is an inclusion of the client-centered approach enveloped in the assessment instrument. Using a cultural lens in client assessment
As an educator and school administrator, she wanted the best from her students and for her students. She was positive, encouraging and always praised their accomplishments. Her expectations were always set high for her students and for herself. After her retirement with over 30 years
After each day, the students would hang out in the dorms and Gabriela was always open and kind to others. There was an incident where a student had a panic attack and Gabriela called me and stayed with the student until I reached them. Gabriela stayed with the student the entire night and even slept in the room of the student because the student didn’t want to sleep alone. Gabriela’s display of empathy and selflessness was admirable and are characteristics of a great leader.
How did you learn to read? Most of us do not put much thought into this question, but learning to read is a difficult task. According to Cervetti and Hiebert, the National Reading Panel identified five essential components that a teacher should use during reading instruction, which gives the student the highest chance of being an effective reader (2015, p. 548). These five essential components are also called five pillars of reading instruction. They are Phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. This paper will describe each of the five pillars, how they are related, the benefits, as well as give some effective methods of teaching phonics and phonemic awareness. It will continue by addressing the relationship between reading assessment and instruction and end by identifying ways to address the needs and different learning styles of a student. This paper will start by looking at a definition of phonics and phonemic awareness, then move onto the role that each play in learning to read, how they are related, the benefits and effective methods of teaching both.
Jillian is a wonderful student to have in class. She is very curious and loves to help take care of others. I am impressed with her attention to detail and desire to learn. She has made great gains in reading and enjoys our math activities. She is one of the first students to volunteer and wants to share her thinking with the class. Have a great
The mainstream media focuses on the viewers and what the viewers would like to know. Most people watch the news to obtain information about what is going on in the world. If the topic that is brought up on the news sounds interesting or sounds like it will affect the viewer will watch to see what is happening. Appealing to the emotions of the viewer will make the person want to know more and see what will happen. The consumers of the information tend to believe what they see or hear. Viewers tend to believes these sources because a news network may be based on the same political views as the viewer. Some people will not watch certain news networks because of what is put out there about the political aspect of the world. Although that is one of the reasons viewers watch the news, the views may just be watching this one news network because it may be the only network available to the person. Viewers care about can be seen with the eyes, since not everything a person
There are many components to building a student’s reading skill set. One skill that is introduced in preschool and developed through the primary grades is phonemic awareness. The term phonemic awareness is defined as the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes – individual sounds. The child becomes aware of how sounds are connected to words prior to reading. This awareness creates the understanding of how phonemes explains how the smallest part of sound creates a difference in sound to the meaning of a word. Therefore, the ability to dismantle words, and reassemble them, and then to alter the word into something different explains the concept behind phonemic awareness. It is the primary foundation in which other reading skill sets are according based.