Pedagogy or pedagogy knowledge is the discipline that deals with the theory and practice of education such as lesson plan development, classroom management, students ' assessment and instructional methods for students teaching. The pedagogy is focused on improve the learning and intelligence of the student. In school, there are two types of leaders, the teachers as leader of his class and the principal as leader of the school as whole. The successful of the school depend on effective of both leaders on providing a pedagogy atmosphere in the school. For the teachers, creating the pedagogy classroom is one of his responsibility and he must combine both the subject knowledge and pedagogy knowledge in order to be an effective teacher. In the pedagogy …show more content…
First Pedagogy as reflection which creating moments and spaces to explore lived experience. Many assignment from what I did during the previous two years in the MEL program added a lot for my pedagogical knowledge and skills that concern on evaluation, assessment, reflection and critique of the education subjects to make judgements and respond. Some of these assignments are: Curriculum evaluation (Artefact 2.4) enabled me to design, create and apply high quality assessments and, thereafter, to analyze the assessment data to promote students ' success. I develop a rubric and use a rubric for evaluating a curriculum unit. This enriched my pedological knowledge that related to the evaluation process of the education resources and improve my skills on the recognizing and judge on the quality of the instructional material and subjects for students. This assignment helped me to look for the education material on different lenses and focuses on the main factors and elements that illustrate the curriculum strength and that distinguish between the good and bad curriculum. Other assignments that improved my pedological skills on critique and reflection of education issues were Article critique (Artefact 2.5), issue reflection paper (Artefact 2.6), Diversity in school reflection (Artefact 2.7), field experiences reflection (Artefact 2.8), internship task report (Artefact 2.9), internship final project (Artefact 2.10), and critical incident report (Artefact 2.11). Throughout these assignments, I was able to be reflecting deep confusion of thought, and of aims and purposes, relating to learning and teaching – to pedagogy for self-assessment and self-improvement. I reflect on some articles to improve my ability to distingue between the good and bad education materials. Also, I learned how to assess students, teachers and other stakeholders ' practices in school and reflect
I learned how to formulate a restricted, unified, and precise thesis statement. I am now able to organize essay content into introduction, body and conclusion paragraphs. I also learned how to construct and organize unified, coherent, and well-developed paragraphs. I am able to apply grammar and usage rules correctly and develop clear, concise sentences. I learned about parallelism, run-on, comma splices and sentences.
My most significant academic learning experience has been…
The Latin root of the word ‘Reflection’ refers to the ‘moving back’ or getting or bending back” to something. This bending back is of significant importance in any profession, any task and any practice as suggested by Horwood (1989). Put in very simple words, every time we do something and later stop to think or ponder over what we did, how we did and why we did, consequently also thinking on what were the effects of such doing and if or how it could have been done better, then we are actually engaging ourselves in the process of reflection. Making this a part of our profession so as to bring constant improvement in the quality of our own performance is what we can say is bringing reflection to our practice; hence the term ‘Reflective Practice’ is used.
I made a difference because I helped these students understand the materials they’re supposed to learn in class. This was eye opening because seeing how happy the kids understand something made me feel like a teacher. Personally, I learned kids love when adults care about them. They like it when I teach them math.
I learned how to approach various people I could encounter in my desired career path, physical therapy. With intelligent professionals, such as doctors and nurses, I gained knowledge on how to formally communicate with them and follow the tasks I am given. Regarding the patients of the hospital and their families, I learned how to show compassion and generosity towards strangers that have been stricken by misfortune. An important life lesson that I have acquired throughout the year is that when being involved with volunteer and leadership experience, the greatest reward is not being paid in money or recognition, but being paid in love. The people you provide service to may forget what you said and did, however, they will never forget how it made them
Lastly I learned to be responsible for asking for help. Asking for help when I needed it was hard for me whether it was work or a lesson I did not understand. I am a shy person always has been always will be, I used to avoid asking teachers anything when I needed help. I did not want to seem like I was not smart or I wanted help but I was too afraid to ask.
On 10/6/2015 an unannounced inspection was conducted accompanied by Tina Freeman. We were greeted by Heather Boutross the director and stated my purpose of the visit and explained what documentation I would need to complete the investigation. A complete walk through of classrooms and playgrounds was conducted. In the infant building all classrooms were empty as children were outside on the nature trail or under the pavilion. Outside in the pavilion was a class of six 2 years old children with two caregiver Regan Manny and Briana Ledbetter.
Do we give children and students too many trophies? Many would say no, we have to work for what we want in life. Not to just receive it on a silver platter. Kids who are praised for their effort rather than their ability to strive harder, enjoy activities more, and deal with failure in a more resilient way. Trophies are for those who strive to do better in any type of activity, whether it is a sport, extra curriculum.
Which improved my skills, and my grade tremendously. Taking the same course with two different professors I knowest that each professor has different approach to the course, and how they help their students. Once I got use to the change from high school and college
In order to make their learning and assessment ongoing and not episodic, I develop an appropriate curriculum, planning lessons to meet students' learning needs and using inferences about student progress to inform my teaching. I make lessons and assessments a linked series of activities undertaken over time, so that progress is directed towards the intended course goals and the achievement of relevant
Classroom Observations Mrs. Canada is the first grade teacher that I observed, and the subject that she was teaching was reading. She had planned well-organized power points and crafting materials in advance, so she was prepared for the lesson. The two times I observed, the lesson that was being taught at both times was reading. Children in the classroom used a lot of previous knowledge for the lesson.
Introduction of these educational changes like school reform, teaching and teacher professionalism is possible through new curricula. In order to design , develop and disseminate this new curriculum we need a specialized development team but we must be aware that during the era of education reform, effective utilization of this new curriculum lies in the hands of regular teachers. By the actions that the educational system take, when it introduces this new curriculum, it can cause serious resistance to the changes. Resistance to educational change can be defined as students ' and teachers ' affective, cognitive and behavioral specific responses or acts of opposing or struggling with modifications because there is a vested interest in maintaining the status quo(Bemmels and Reshef, 1991; Van den Heuvel, 2009). Teachers resist change when it is introduced to them poorly, when it affects how they do their work, and when they don 't see the need for the changes.
Overall, this learning experience has taught me how to treat each student individually but also teach concepts as a whole group. Each student has different needs and although they are all learning the same concept they come to mastery in very different ways. As a future teacher I am thankful this experience has taught me how to help each of my students in the way they need best by incorporating different instructional methods and different ways of
Teaching philosophy is described by Sadker and Sadker as, “Behind every school and every teacher is a set of related beliefs - a philosophy of education – that influences what and how students are taught. A philosophy of education represents answers to questions about the purpose of schooling, a teacher’s role and what should be taught and by what methods.” (Teacher, Schools and Society. 2005). With this definition in consideration, my teaching philosophy is “I believe that children learn best when they are given the chance to choose, discuss and explore what they want to learn, when they want to learn and how they want to learn.
Curriculum models provide a structure for teachers to “systematically and transparently map out the rationale for the use of particular teaching, learning and assessment approaches” in the classroom, and are regarded as an effective and essential framework for successful teachers (O’Neill 2015, p27). Feeding into a particular curricular stance, it is essential to recognise the multiplicity of sources which will govern this individual framework. Oronstein and Hunkins observe that, when designing a curricular stance, educators must first consider the “philosophical and learning theories” which will inform their “design decisions” (2009, p182). This approach is essential to ensure that the curricular approaches one selects are “consonant with