Graduation Speech On The Classroom

The career I have chosen to pursue is a Secondary School Teacher. It is a challenging and creative career to have and is a career that helps “prepare students for life after graduation. They teach academic lessons and various skills that students will need to attend college and to enter the job market” (“Bureau of Labor Statistics”). To me preparing students for the future is a huge responsibility, that I would be willing to take on. Not only is it a high school teacher’s job to help a student learn and understand important high school subjects, like math, science, english, or whatever else, but it is their job to help shape the minds of the the world’s next generation of passionate and promising young adults.

The team then proceeds to ask the teacher what is some of Mary’s strengths and what are some positives about her. The teacher noticed that Mary was helpful and responsible. Mary could go to the office for the teacher to get her mail and then bring it back to her. She also notices that Mary is more likeable to her when she is on task. She has friends but it seems that she is starting to get on other students’ nerves. In the meeting, one teacher mentions that she has Mary’s brother in her class and she noticed that Mary is good with him. Another teacher has collected some observations and has done some curriculum based assessment on Mary. The teacher observed her during her reading time. She observes Mary not being attentive; Mary was up out of her seat within ten minutes of independent work. She was disruptive with two other classmates by talking to them or bumping into them as she walked by and she was on task for 60 percent of the time compared to another student in the class who was on task for 95 percent of the time. The entire class itself was on task and behaving appropriately expect for Mary during the time that the teacher was there observing.

The third-grade classroom consists of twenty-three students that range in academic levels. There is currently no additional instructional aid such as a teacher’s aide in the classroom. I acted as an aide while being there to observe this student. The classroom presented useful aids such as posters with key terms, classroom rules, class schedule, and objectives for the lessons, along with educational technology such as computers and iPads to use Stride Academy. The instruction is scaffold where the students need to know one part before being able to successful achieve the next part. I was given the student, Jay, to observe and assess. He struggles

The students in this classroom have the instructional level range from kindergarten to fourth grade levels which is several grade levels below their actual grade level. The primary instruction in this classroom is in English, this class also contains students, who are second language learners. Some of my students have difficulty being able to translate between Spanish and English and understand what information is asking them to do. I am the special education teacher in this classroom. I have been a teacher at this school for nine and a half years. My primary focus is to help my students increase their competence level in core academics. This in turn will give each student the opportunity to be place into a resource classroom or general education classroom. The student that will be featured in my study is in his second year with me. Kevin is a 7th grader and this is his second year at our school. Our school is on a block schedule. I will see Kevin on “A-Days” and “B-Days” based on a rotating block schedule. I have an open line of math problem the first time around. What I like most about (K) is that over time he will continue working on a problem until

I enjoyed my fourth day at Forest Brook Middle School. I sat in both an Accelerated class and General Ed class. The Accelerated class was working on One- Step and Two Step Equations. Since the lesson ended early they were able to work in groups and start on homework. Ms. Molesky informed me that in this particular class students didn’t need much help because they can do everything on their own. Their homework was a maze-like worksheet where each answer led them to a certain problem. While walking around I noticed one student solving the problems in his own way, but he still gets the right answer, he tried explaining it to me and his partner, but we both didn’t get his method. There was another student who made a mistake on his maze and selected

This project was exciting to complete, as we rarely have prepared anything like this before. Beginning by looking at the roster of students, I was able to recognize how I would group the students. I knew, however, that I wanted to avoid groups larger than five students. I also understood, from the ideas of many education classes that the best pedagogical solution would be to include a mixture of performance levels. Because of these implications, my first set of groupings consisted of the grade of the student, followed by a break down of their level.

Although many peoples’ most significant memories of college are those outside of the classroom, a degree is not conferred based upon such things. Rather, students’ academic performance is what determines whether students earn a degree or certificate. Academic issues were a point of concern at many institutions as incoming students often struggled with basic skills. Furthermore, international students who needed remedial English were less likely to persist (Mamiseishvili, 2012). There have been numerous issues, obstacles, and challenges that may inhibit a student’s ability to navigate the rigors of college. Much has been discussed concerning improved educational opportunities for minority and underrepresented students in

Everything started when I realized my misconception about one of my students. Let’s start from the beginning of my short but eye opening teaching career. It was seven years ago, when I started working as a kindergarten teacher in a public elementary school in my country, Turkey. I had several internship experiences for four semesters in different settings such as in a kindergarten, a preschool, and a Montessori classroom during my bachelor degree, I finally had my own classroom that I can mold and educate my students based on my paradigms. Even without knowing the paradigms as much as I comprehend right now, by just knowing the eminent child development theorist and their theories, I always believed that every second of child’s life can be utilized as a teaching moment to help them to construct their knowledge. Therefore, most of the activities I created were coming from my students’ interest. Even though I had a little bit crowded classroom, in which I had

Greetings fellow graduates, teachers and staff, local law enforcement, Kirkland, Family Members, and those who were forced to come. As you probably know I am Adolfo Reynaga and it’s a distinct honor that I’ve been chosen to represent my class as senior speaker. Tonight, we celebrate a huge milestone within our lives that we will always share, walking down this stage, giving a sweaty handshake, and receiving a piece of paper. To many this was a very difficult four years, four years, people worked so hard just for this night, four years that we will one day remember as “the easy days”. The carefree days where all we had to worry about was homework, getting home before curfew, and keeping up with the Kardashians. Now before we go off to the next chapter in our lives, it will all be a different experience for all of us, some of us will be attending a university, trade school, joining the military, or entering the workforce, or become lucky and be the next Jake Paul, but no matter what path we choose or where life directs us to, we will always have one thing that will connect us all, Our Yucaipa high. As I go on with my speech, I would like to share my experiences and life stories that helped shape me to who I am now, a Yucaipa High School graduate.

Throughout the previous years of my education, I have explored a variety of English and writing courses where I learned to dissect and explore the various meanings and intentions of authors and poets as well as my peers. Aside from the mandatory conventions that must be mastered in writing to ensure clarity, there are some characteristics that run deeper. These are what dictate whether or not a writer may truly become successful. A common theme that has been reinforced in my experiences is that of respect.

I would like to commence this speech by saying that we have all been truly blessed in being given the opportunity to celebrate our graduation with each other in such a manner. Being able to spend our final moments as a class in such an important place is wonderful, and before I delve further into this speech, I want to thank the man who allowed us to graduate from the church, Father Jenik. He’s a great preacher, a charitable bishop, and most importantly, he is a great man.

I observed Ms. Velasquez 1st period class, I had to observe this period in two days because this class period is shorter but they are seen every day. On the first day, Ms. Velasquez greeted the students at the door and the students interned the classroom and did their daily routine. Since that this is the first period of the day, they do eat breakfast for the first few minutes, then the teacher told the students that deadline for report cards grade were coming up. She gave her class the opportunity to make up anything that they were missing by showing up her tutoring hours, but no later than that Wednesday. She then transitioned the class into taking notes, the lesson for the day was: how to solve for y. The lesson was done on the smart board, but today I notice that my teacher had a device that let her write on the board as she moved around the classroom. I noticed that she would look around and monitor if the student were following along. She walked and stood near the back to a location see most of her students. After a few examples she let the students practice some problem on the whiteboard. When students were done, they would raise their hand to get their work checked by the teacher. The first two that were done and had the correct answer became a helper, which involved them checking their peer’s work. The teacher and co-teacher walked and answered any questions or clarified anything that the students needed. Teacher wanted to check for understanding so she

In class, we have discussed: writing-to-learn, rubrics and research. In this paper, I will reflect and summarize on topics discussed in class. I sense that all of these topics can have a positive affect off of the other. Thus far I have really enjoyed the topics we have discussed because they stretch so far and are opinionated topics. From my own personal experience, I do not really enjoy writing. I had teachers who made me write things like spelling words over and over. When the topic about research came up I instantly sighed because my first thought was that I was going to be assigned what to research. What fun is researching something if you don’t get to do it on something interesting? As I reflect back on my own experiences from grade school I remember using rubrics starting around 8th grade. Seeing how then, I just thought there were no use for them now I absolutely love them because it gives expectations from the teacher for the student. I think rubrics are awesome to use but if they aren’t worded just right I see failure waiting to happen.

I hope I 'm not the only one who notices the increasing disinterest in education in my school. Perhaps, I 'm simply overreacting to its inevitability. Maybe it 's the brief conversations containing absurd amounts of grammatical errors and profanity that I often hear throughout the hallways, or the numerous students who admit to not caring about school that have led me to this conclusion: The majority of teenagers have lost interest in school as a source of learning.

English class seemed to be the most dreadful to take within school. Writing essays for most of my grade in a class is not what I was looking forward too. When I entered college I knew that it would be one of many challenging classes I would have to take. Starting from the lowest English class to moving on up, the writing assignments became longer and more thought out. The time came when I got into this class that I knew more work was going to have to be put into essays and thus brought out what I had not seen before in my work progress.