Benefits of Reflection

Reflective Practitioners:

Reflective teachers utilize ways to describe and analyze their instructional decisions while they asses their personal acceptance with the lesson that they created. In order to be a good and effective teacher one must consider how to appreciate, apply, and synthesize aspects of good teaching by critiquing them from all views. These teachers have a unique way of looking back on their teaching styles, the learning in their classroom, make constructive criticisms about the approach, and reconstruct their teaching behavior as a result.    

Benefits of Reflection:

Reflection can have shot term and long term benefits. Reflection can increase the teacher’s ability to understand and critique the classroom events. Reflective teaching can also demonstrate the need to enhance the teacher’s learning about teaching. To exhibit the most from this process one will need to first, have a concrete learning experience that will include grading of homework papers. Secondly, one must reflect on the experience by observation and evaluation. Think back on why the home work was assigned and the overall nature of the homework, what was the target of the assignment. Thirdly, you must process what you already know and believe about teaching and learning to integrate your reflections of them both.

How can you develop reflective abilities?

In relating to an early childhood education background and serving a diverse community one would have to be a reflective practitioner. My plans would be to design lesson plans that will center on cultural awareness in serving bi-lingual students and their families. I would have to critique all lesson to be sure to allow for each student to understand the material, explore the material and for the student to be able to problem solve as a means of gaining knowledge from the experience. A Head Start Teacher must be able to have lesson plans that will target all types’ of learners and participants. The plan must be able to attract the learner for exploration, hold the learners attention, and the learner must be able to display what they have captured from the experience. One true way of gaining information from young learners is to have a system of asking open-ended questions that will allow the students to express their feelings about the experience. Young students often will follow the lead of other students in voicing their opinions about the stimulation at hand. A good teacher must provide case notes, anecdotes, charts and assessments to provide knowledge of how a student is progressing. Teachers must have a system of change in the approach of teaching when it appears that a student is struggling with processing information. In summary a good teacher knows how to approach diverse student learning, set goals for classroom structure and create an atmosphere for student achievements as a means of progressing their learning.

 

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Classroom Management

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Advantage: 7 levels of classroom discipline, having a positive and proactive mindset will help to frame behavior issues, building positive relationships with students, and using technology as a means of engagement.

Disadvantage: Not holding individuals accountable for their actions

http://www.siue.edu/education/teachready/4_Planning_Instruction/4_Subpages/4_is_classroom.htm

Advantages: Builds mutual respect that students will live up to good expectations, develop extensive handbooks that will categorize levels of misbehavior and the fact that the first line of discipline begins in the classroom not the principal office.

Disadvantage: failure to create a classroom climate of control.

http://www.classroom-management-success.org/classroom-management-plan-sample.html

 

Advantages: There is a clear plan for individual responsibility in taking ownership for guiding and managing the classroom environment, take on one major classroom challenge to solve a year, and engage students to be successful in their learning.

Disadvantage: Varying off the focus of the written philosophy as your guidance tool and letting the student’s control the environment.

http://cb108.k12.sd.us/Portfolio/classroom_management.htm

Advantages: Setting clear and precise rules for the classroom, gaining supportive feedback, and having an corrective action plan as a way of monitoring the goals.

Disadvantages: Rewards should instill in the students the abilities to do the right thing at the right time instead of receiving a tangible object as a way of stating you will get a gift if you do the right thing.

http://people.bu.edu/seider/T-210L%20Syllabus%20Updated%205-20-2010.doc

Advantages: Classroom structure has well designed rooms, rules, routines and relationships, also there are clear limit setting for students.

Disadvantages:No back up plan for techniques that appears to not work according to planned goals.

Famous Martin Luther King Quote: Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Reliability

Reliability can be measured or assessed as accurate and reliable each time scorees are produced. If an assessment lacks relaiability it is an indication that the testing procedures has a shift in the students ability to understand the structure of the information that is provided. In some cases reliability may be proven to have some degrees of points that may varied, but not far from its average scoring. (Cruickshank, Jenkins, & Metcalf, 2012) suggest that,when you providde additional clarification or guidance about an assessment task to some students but not others, you have reduced the reliability  of the assessment across students and to some extent, their perrformance may be different. What a tacher needs to remember is to provide the best learning atmosphere that will promote proper learning that will be assessed in a reliable means and produce adequate information for student records.

"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

Problem Solving-Tutoring

Problem Solving-Tutoring

Problem Solving:           

     Indicates that there is a problem or situation that may be present and will need to be addressed by implementing a goal that learners are inquired to seek measure on how to derive at that goal. Problem solving can be viewed as a well structured problem that can only have results in science or math terms, this may require applying a certain mathematical or scientific procedures to calculate its results. This will indicate only one right answer. Another situation may be as a teacher you are prepared to write classroom lesson plans with emphasis on clear set goals to be administered for the learner to grasp and receive acquire knowledge.             On the other hand, there are larger and more complex issues or real life concerns that can be viewed as ill-structured or unstructured problems that can have multiple answers. Some examples would be: what nutritional menus can provide a proper school lunch and how to solve the issue of proper disposal of toxic waste. When ill-structured problems occur than one has to consider problem based learning which can be viewed as a four step procedure: one would be using quizzes to asses what knowledge the learner has, two would be putting in place what is needed for learning and applying adequate resources, three would be to engage the student in learning, and four would be to provide a prioritized list and communicate what data has been discovered.           

          Problem solving has many pros and cons to consider. The pros of this instructional alternative are that it allows the learner to participate in the situation as an active thinker and seeker of results. It causes the student to get involve using hands on skills and techniques to arrive at a reasonable conclusion.  It gives the student a foundation of long term learning as they provide analysis to math, science and real life concerns to problems and situations. Problem solving will help to keep the mind motivated and active in processing information that will lead to manageable decisions. The cons to be considered are that the fact may be the learner is not equipped to handle the math or science terms that are present to solve the problem. The student may be unknowledgeable about most real life situations to solve the problem. The student may need to provide research on any given subject in order to proceed further and may have limited resources to research the information at hand. Tutoring           

           The purpose of tutoring is to aid the student to help themselves or assist or guide them to the point at which they become an independent learner and has no longer a need for a tutor. The main focus is to create independent learners to function on their own as they seek out data and other forms of information. A tutor can provide information to individuals and or small groups to aid them in becoming better learners. A tutor may provide instruction to a small group of learners on one subject that may not have completed success tasks during conventional instructions. There is still another type of tutoring in which peer to peer participation in shared learning of a certain subject. The tutor should exhibit good interpersonal skills, appearance should be managed, should have enthusiasm, dependability, good attitudes, knowledgeable, and have good integrity. The tutor should have the students’ best interest at hand using professionalism, confidentiality, fairness, and respect. It is also important that a tutor use correct verbiage that the student can understand and exhibit positive non verbal body language.           

           The pros of tutoring is to provide a service to individuals or groups that may be lagging  in education and need special instructions to aid them in progression in their studies. Tutoring provides the instructor in gaining insights on students’ abilities and their learning style. Tutoring can build a students’ self esteem as they become knowledgeable about any given subject.   Tutoring can open the windows of opportunity of a students’ ability to have better study skills and proper storage of information to retrieve knowledge at a later time.             

            The cons of tutoring can be the student or audience can not understand the dialect of the instructor, may result in students loosing adequate information. If a tutor uses verbiage that is on a higher level than that of the student, than the student may not grasp any information that is understandable for he/she to apply knowledge too. If the tutor is bias to his/her own learning style or judgmental the student may regress exhibiting low self esteem.

 

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
  Martin Luther King Jr.

Inappropriate Use of Student Data

One teacher decided to share information regarding a student in her classroom. She went on to describe his negative behavior along with is bad language. The teacher also informed the other teacher that she will need to keep a close watch on him, because some of his age appropriate developmental milestones are not on target and he will probably need some extra services. One thing our teachers will have to consider is the fact remains that the sharing of this kind of information is inappropriate. The student's personal information is to be kept confidential at all times. Any sharing of documents remains private until released by the parent by the signing of proper documentation.
    

Famous Martin Luther King Quote 4: Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.