Mrs. Griffins made several comments during her interview that relates to our readings and class discussions. Her statement about respecting students’ culture and protecting their national identities immediately reminded me of Cary’s question—“How do I find useful information on a student’s cultural background?” According to Cary’s text, a teacher can pursue a child’s outside story for three reasons: respect, curiosity, and instruction. Mrs. Griffins models all three reasons.
First, she respects that as students acquire English as a new language, they do not have to forsake their native language. Second, to slake her curiosity, Mrs. Griffins values the use of technology to familiarize herself with cultures she is not accustomed to. Lastly, in designing instruction, Mrs. Griffins considers her learners, especially in
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Griffins’ idea of a suitable learning environment was interesting. Contrary to common behavior, teachers are normally encouraged to decorate the interior of their classrooms with visuals that cover academic material. However, Mrs. Griffins strongly believes that visuals can also be distracting, and even overstimulating. Instead of visuals, she decorates her room to have the welcoming emotions of students entering a home—with plants, pictures, bookcases, pumpkins, and a colorful fish tank. She noticed that her students had greater respect for their environment when she structured her classroom as a domestic attraction.
Moreover, when I listened to Mrs. Griffins, I recognized her strong conviction for assessments, “My ideal learning environment would not have any grades.” As she explained her reasoning, I understand her preference to not track a student’s academic progress in a linear fashion. Instead, Mrs. Griffins believes education should have flexibility to follow a non-linear design, with learners playing a significant role in determining their learning
Shantelle Jones is a 17-year old adolescent female who was referred to this agency following a brief hospitalization for a suicide attempt. She resides in Rural, Michigan with her paternal aunt, Ms. Wilson, who has become her adoptive parent, as well as her younger sister, her paternal grandmother, and an adult male cousin. During her intake appointment, Ms. Wilson stated that she would like Miss Jones to be less aggressive toward her sister, less rebellious, and to become compliant with the medical recommendations of the psychiatrist who treated her in the hospital. Miss Jones stated that she would not like counseling, but if it was necessary she would comply because she would like to be less depressed and have less strife in her home life.
I decided to review an article by Martha J. Strickland titled, Storylines: Listening to Immigrant Students, Teachers, and Cultural-Bridge Persons Making Sense of Classroom Interactions. I found the article in National University’s library. This article describes a study in which “storylines” is used to capture and analyze how newly arrived immigrant students in U. S. classrooms make meaning of lessons with limited English and how their teachers, without prior experience with the cultures of these students, manage to educate them. Pursuing understanding (knowledge construction) of academic content is a multicultural education dimension.
On May 16, 2017 I interviewed Jaimie Resendiz about what it means to be American to her. Jaimie is 29 years old, shes been living most of her life here in Orange County. She recently moved to a different county, which is, Riverside County. She has her own house with three children, and two small dogs. Although, Jaimie has kids she isn’t so sure if she wants to get married.
Education is without a doubt one of the most significant factors in our society. We spend twelve years of our lives in the schooling system, and our system has been the most accurate technique for assessing students for decades now. Lately, there has been controversy over the traditional grading system that we currently use in our classrooms across the United States. There is a multitude of individuals who believe we should alter our grading system, and begin using a recently developed system which involves working on a long-term assignment throughout the semester to show what students have learned during the length of the course. There are many benefits to our traditional system that people often seem to overlook. We should be
Purpose: The purpose of this interview is to gain a deeper understanding on your experiences with education, both during your childhood and adult life. Specifically, I am interested in how your familial income has impacted your education success, your opinion on the varying levels of Illinois education funding, and your knowledge on how the U.S. government regulates and impacts education throughout the nation. This interview should be no longer than 40 minutes. Throughout the course of this interview I will be recording you and taking notes for the purpose of my sociology class; however, your privacy will be respected. All of the information you share with me will be kept private between myself and my teacher. In addition, your name will not be included in this transcript and my interview summary.
Progress monitoring is used to access students’ academic performance, to quantify a student rate of improvement or responsiveness to instruction, and to evaluate the effectiveness of instruction. The main advantage of progress monitoring over annual achievement tests is that it consists of frequently administered tests rather than just one testing session. Progress monitoring is an example of a formative assessment. The goal of a formative assessment is to monitor continuously student learning. Year-End assessments are summative, and they are administered with
In beginning of a her career she is a licensed physical therapist in ROHC and provided physical therapy treatment and her goal is to prevent work related musculoskeletal injuries. She is experienced over 15 years in treating orthopedic injuries caused by occupation. As a Pilates instructor she used to train rehabilitation professionals. She is expert in using neck and back stabilizing techniques on patients and ergonomic clients. She is now Director of Physical Therapy department at Nova Pain and Rehabilitation. Her quest in field of ergonomics made her to establish an ergonomic evaluating office Ergo-RX and provides custom furnishings to the clients. As an ergonomist and physical therapist, Jeannie incorporates her physical therapy treatment and prevention of injuries to the clients and patients she is serving
| Stories give children cultural experiences incommon with the other children in the classroom and inform all about the target culture.
Most teachers are teaching in classrooms that are culturally diverse. There are many aspects of teaching in a classroom with students from various cultural backgrounds that a teacher may encounter as a challenge both to their educational training and their personal beliefs and attitudes. One of the most important aspects of teaching children from culturally diverse backgrounds is the teacher’s ability to learn about and understand their own personal cultural background and that of the student’s in their classroom. The teacher’s own culture and the student’s culture will surely often impact the way the teacher may choose to teach one or all of their students in a classroom. Understanding about how the
According to standard four of the Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (2015), an administrator is supposed to develop, support, and uphold rigorous curriculum and instructional practices for all students. This entails selecting and providing the curriculum for teachers to use as a supplement to provide rigorous instruction. It also includes school leaders ensuring that the curriculum is being utilized to achieve the greatest success for all students and supporting all teachers in their deficit areas.
Reviewed application/petitions and any supporting documentation submitted for naturalization and/or other immigration benefits for completeness verseus any inconsistancies noted in petition and actual case file belonging to the individual. Reviewed all security vettings, fingerprint records, and initial immigration documents to insure individual was initially admitted to the United States properly under law and that any security/fingerprint records were properly completed and did not contain any derogatory information that would result in postponing the interview and/or require my completing a detailed report/analysis outlining the issue of concern or suspected fraud and referral for a resolution or further investigation.
Recently, I had taken the time to interview Mak. Her full name is Eunice Mak and is a young lady of 26 years living in San Francisco, California with her grandparents, parents, and brother. She graduated from San Francisco State University with a Bachelor of Science in Human Development. She currently works at Kaiser as a Pharmacy Technician.
7. If not selected as a leadership team member next year, how would this affect your overall performance next year?
To gather the essential information that we as a group felt would be necessary to compile enough information to analyze the golf facility we contacted Gregory Doll, Head Golf Professional and Assistant General Manager at Huron Breeze. Three of us from the group were able to make the trip to Au Gres to conduct an interview and take a tour of the facility to gather any information that would help us with the human resource topics that we have chosen. To make sure that we received the necessary information that we wanted we took along our detailed research outline so we could touch on every topic we wanted to with Mr. Doll. The interview took approximately one hour, which was followed by a full tour of the facility. Some of
You picked the right interview styles for each category. Unstructured interviews seem easier for both the interviewer and the interviewee. The idea of having an interview more like a conversation between two peers sounds relaxing and enjoyable. Panel interviews are probably the most difficult