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Jill ratto: it is my lifelong dream to be a teacher. Every student has the ability to learn, but not every student wants to learn. Teacher needs to create a good learning environment by using different learning styles.
Jill ratto: it is my lifelong dream to be a teacher. Every student has the ability to learn, but not every student wants to learn. Teacher needs to create a good learning environment by using different learning styles.
Jill ratto: it is my lifelong dream to be a teacher. Every student has the ability to learn, but not every student wants to learn. Teacher needs to create a good learning environment by using different learning styles.
Jill Ratto Dr. Evin Fox EDUC 204: Families, Communities, Culture Spring 2013
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Statement of Informed Beliefs Introduction It is my lifelong dream to be a teacher. As I have gone through school I have realized the affect a teacher can have on a persons life. I have come to know that the affect a teacher can have is for good or for bad. The teachers I had in high school and some the professors I had at college, have inspired me to become great. These teachers showed me what I can become if I work hard and believe in myself. These teachers are amazing and they are the kind of teacher that I wish to become. These people taught in a way that inspired students to become better, to change, and to grow. I want to be the kind of teacher these people were for me. To be like them, I need to be competent, diverse, respectful, and flexible. Furthermore I need to value my future students. I have to see them as individuals, I need to see their uniqueness and embrace it. I will keep a positive attitude so that I may help my students gain and establish high values and morals. I will do that, because that will help my students succeed in life and achieve their full potential. Students Ability to Learn Every student has the ability to learn, but not every students wants to learn. It is the right of every human being to have the opportunity to learn and pursue knowledge. It is the responsibility of teachers to help those who are pursuing, to find knowledge. They also need to help those who arent pursuing. At first not everyone wants to gain more knowledge, and some dont believe they can. As teachers we can help gain a love for learning. As I stated earlier every student has the ability to learn, but each and every one learns best in their own unique way. In order for all students to learn, the teacher needs to create a good learning environment. One way the teacher can do that is by using different learning styles. He or she must think
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about the questions cite in Berns (2013) Does this child learn best by watching? By listening? By moving his or her body? Does the child achieve more alone or in a group? Is the child better at breaking down a whole task into smaller ones? Because each student learns differently, each teacher must organize a developmentally appropriate curriculum. Ove the course of many years teachers have changed their teaching so that it would fit the learning styles of their students. They did this to make sure that every child can learn effectively. I am going to state again every student has the ability to learn, as teachers we have to remember this. It will be especially important to remember this when I have a student who doesnt want to learn. When a teacher has a student how doesnt want to learn he or she must think about motivates a student. They need to know if: this child motivated by pleasing the teacher? By concrete rewards? By internalized interests? As the teacher finds what motives the students, he or she can help this student learn to love learning. Teachers Expectations Anything can be achieved, if you have the right attitude. When a person is expect to do more, then he or she will likely do more. A great teacher expects that all students can and will achieve not only in the classroom but in life. A great teacher tries hard not to label his or her students as overachievers or underachievers. This teacher realizes everyone student has different abilities. When students have someone behind them telling them that they can achieve, and that they have support, students will begin to believe in themselves. Henry Ford said, Whether you think you can or think you cantyou are right. Robert Rosenthal a Harvard professor did an experiment on teachers expectations (Spiegel 2012). Rosenthal went to an elementary school and gave the students a test. He told that teacher that this test was to see who would have a dramatic growth in their IQ, but in reality
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it was an ordinary standardized IQ test. Rosenthal chose random kids from several classes, there was nothing that distinguish these kids from the others. He watch these kids for two years, and saw that the teachers expectations of these students really did affect them. Now, with every experiment there are always multiple things that affect the outcome. Rosenthal says if teacher had been led to expect greater gains in IQ then those kids gained more IQ (as cited in Spiegel, 2012 As Rosenthal did more research he found that expectations affect teachers moment-tomoment interactions with the children they teach in a thousand almost invisible way (Spiegel, 2012). Those students who were expected to have a higher IQ had more specific feedback, more approval, and they had more time to answer questions. Teachers expectations can be both good and bad. No matter how hard teachers try some are going to be bias, teachers are still human. When a teacher see a student who acts badly they might label that student as a troublemaker then the teacher expects that student to be a troublemaker. Teachers really have to be careful with labels, because if a teacher gives a student a bad label then the teacher will treat him or her differently. Although, too high of expectations can be just as bad. Good expectation are good, sometimes teachers expectations are too hard. Even though, teachers are trying to do a good thing, sometimes students need a break from high expectations. When we set our expectations too high we can cause our students self-esteem to drop. As teachers we have to remember that we have so much power. We have the ability to help someone succeed or to have someone stop believing I themselves. We have to be careful how we use this power, because what we as teachers expect from our students is what we will get from our students.
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Students Social Ecology Theory When information is interesting to a student and if the student can relate to it than the student will probably pay more attention. If I know what the student is interested in then I can help the student be interested in learning. So to understand future students I need to understand their background. If I understand their background then I can tie in what they love in to what I am teaching. For example if a student loves history, but hates English then I can try and tie the together. As I have greater understanding of my students I can make learning more personal. I plan on being an elementary teacher; I will need to teach in different ways to be able to reach all my students. I will need to change the learning environment to keep all my students interested. If my students just sit in the class room all day at some point they are going to stop listening. I need to switch the learning environment to try to keep their minds active. As I switch the environment I can show the students how to apply what they have learning in real life. For instance if you are teaching math, take the students around the school and you can show them different angles, or have them count how many swings there are. Use all of the environment to teach. Or if you are talking about different animals and those animals are around where you live have the students look for them. Cultural Diversity Instruction America has been called the melting pot of the world, and this is true. America is full of so many cultures. As a future teacher I will have the opportunity to teach children from all different cultures. It will be my job as a teacher to make all students feel welcomed in my classroom. I will also be responsibility to make sure those students know that no matter where they were born or where they just move from, they are a part of my class. I will strive to make sure every students knows they belong.
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As a teacher I will be sensitive to cultural pluralism in my classroom I will do this by brining different cultures into my classroom. One way I can do this is by having different things from different countries displayed in my classroom. I hope to have my future student share the traditions in their families with me. I have respect for all cultures, and I will strive to aske appropriate questions and listen carefully to my students. While it is important to remember where a person is from and to be proud of where they are from, it is also important to be proud of where they are. To help my students feel more comfortable, I hope to show them that every student in the class has a unique lineage. I will encourage all children to work together, no matter their background. By doing that students can learn different things, and understand you can always find something in common. A lot of cultures have been assimilate into the American society, and some believe that, that means they have to give up their cultural and live the way everyone else does. That is not the case when something is assimilate that means you take things from bother sides and adapt them to make it your own. Curriculum For all Learners Once again each student has a different learning style, a different way to be motivated and a different background. To make a curriculum for all learners is hard because there are so many different aspects a teacher needs to remember when making a curriculum. Just because it is hard doesnt make it impossible. When make a lesson I can tie in a pictures for visual learners, I can have reading assignments for those who need to read, I can speak for those who need to hear it. After I explain or lecture, if the lesson allows then I can tie in an activity. Jean Piaget states that children learn through their own activity (Berns 2013)
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My classroom will be diverse, not only will I have students form different countries I may have those with disabilities and I will need to make my curriculum applicable to them. Even if those students get a different assignment, I will involve them so they know they are a part of the class. The only way to make a curriculum for everyone is by using every possible way of teaching. As I use different methods of teaching I will look to see which students do better, with what style. If they react well, and if they do well, then I will know to do those kind or lesson more. If there are few students who do better with a different style of teaching then I will tie that teaching into my lessons. If some students need a different style of homework then I will do my best to accommodate those students. I want every student who comes in to my class to have an equal opportunity to learn. Conclusion As I go through my teaching career, I will have a diverse group of children. I will do my best to change my teaching style so that, each and every student may achieve his of her full potential. I will expect and believe that all of my students can and will achieve in my classroom, and I wont give up those who dont want to learn. I will use the power I have as a teacher to raise up my student and help them fulfill their dreams.
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Resources Berns, Roberta. Child, Family, School, Community: Socialization and Support. 9th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2013. Print Spiegel, A.() (2012). Npr [0 series episode]. Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/09/18/161159263/teachers-expectations-caninfluence-how-students-perform