The Campus of Virginia Randolph is a school for children with mental disabilities and emotional disorders. I imagined an Instructional Assistant job meant that I would be assisting the Lead instructor with lesson planning and group projects. While that may be part of the job, it wasn 't as often an occurrence as expected. My job was mainly to separate kids who fought, follow students who ran out of the classroom whenever they felt, and to watch for triggers that may set off the
I come to class with excited feeling and joy to learn and work with children and staff in this class. I dress appropriated clothes and comfort to work with children all day long. I avoid absences and spend as much as possible time in class to learn and be with children. I get used to the classroom routine schedule and ask with my colleague and teachers activities and events that occur between children that I don’t understand. I remain positive attitude in the classroom all the time.
Since the students are learning at different levels, I work with each one to achieve academic skills; in addition to recognizing issues, encouraging socialization and independence. Also, I have earned the title as a Registered Behavioral Technician through training, exams, and BCBA observations. Applied Behavior Analysis is very useful while managing behaviors that interfere with learning. I am invested in knowing the needs, weaknesses, strengths, and fears of all the students.
The roles of paraeducators is easily noticed, well laid out, and easy to read and remember with their bullet list. With my lack of experience working with paraeducators, the authors foresight to define the paraeducators role in a place that draws attention is a great way to establish basic knowledge for the reader and is easy to reference when necessary. I have had a supervisor’s role in other occupations and managing adults is a difficult balancing act. Therefore, managing adults while you have to manage a room full of students has to be quite challenging.
5 strategies that a teaching assistant might use to support literacy development: 1.Improving language which means building children’s vocabulary. Vocabulary is very important. It is needed to communicate, to understand others and to express own ideas. Building and improving vocabulary will improve reading and writing skills. In order to improve children’s vocabulary teaching assistant could make sure to provide children with a language-rich environment.
Kingsley Primary School is a metropolitan, government funded, k-6 school that is located on Lathwell Street in the suburb of Armadale. The school has 13.4 FTE staff members with 277 enrolled students. The student peer group consists of many cultural identities with 22% of students having a language background that is not English. The student profile also has a high socio-economic disadvantage with 36% of the school distribution being in the bottom quarter compared to the Australian average of 25%. With the vision of being strong and working as a team, the school strive to ensure that every student is a successful learner.
Four-day school weeks have the capability to change student lives. Every school should invest in the four-day school week plan. Implementing this routine would allow teachers more time to teach and give students the option to do their homework during class, in turn creating student success. All of these factors would help to enhance student and faculty life, while promoting success in the classroom. Having a school system run on a four-day rotation would increase their success by offering more opportunities for lesson and work time.
For me, Internship 2 is an immensely significant course due to the practical and tremendous value it delivers. Thanks to this course, I was able to enhance my expertise in a professional environment and learn from experienced teachers. These aspects assist in expanding my understanding and positively transforming my perspective on English teaching. Based on the activities I accomplished throughout my Teaching Assistant experience and Micro-teaching experience in this course, I am more acquainted with the exhilarating occupation of an English teacher. Furthermore, I have acquired immensely beneficial experiences, including substantive findings for my current and future teaching careers.
Students were given a topic and could first listen to my recorded instructions auditorily, then were given multiple means of representation. I went on to
According to the guidelines that have been established by Cleveland State University’s American Association of University Professor’s (AAUP’s) contract, 2016, promotion to the rank of clinical assistant professor shall be based on evidence of excellence in teaching and clinical supervision. In this teaching statement, I provide the rationale and evidence to demonstrate that I have modeled excellence in teaching and clinical supervision for my students. Background I began my career as a physical therapist in 2001 after graduating from The Ohio State University.
One of the unique aspects of the Department of Child Development and Family Relations is that many of the department’s large core courses offer teaching assistant opportunities to undergraduate students. Teaching assistant opportunities are valuable for undergraduate students to decide whether to apply as a graduate teaching position, great addition to a resume, and for a letter of recommendation. From my teaching assistant experience, I was able to fully grasp the concepts of middle childhood development, form a new appreciation for professors and teaching assistants, and reflect on myself as a student. In addition, I had the opportunity to strengthen several essential skills such as organizational skills, leadership skills, and communication
As a student I found that as I observed or taught my philosophy changed. I looked into other theories to see if I could build upon my existing knowledge and beliefs. Something that would assist me in the classroom and increase my ability to teach. Changes in teaching philosophy and techniques came about during day to day experience as well as with microteaching and these are brought to the forefront of my mind through the use of reflection. Reflection is at first a hard technique to grasp.
Investing my time in the care of my patient gives the opportunity to not only assist them in a difficult situation, but also to learn more about their diagnosis and the treatment, while comparing it to what we have learned in class. For example, I had a patient that suffered from Sickle Cell Disease and came to the ER during a crisis. Correlating this case to the books and the content learned in class, these patients receive at least 1000 mL of fluids, pain medication, and oxygen. Additionally, I had a patient with meningitis. This individual presented with common symptoms such as nuchal rigidity, muscle pain, fever, and chills.
Throughout my training, I implemented various strategies for engaging students in small groups and rigorous lessons. My role as a teacher is to communicate effectively, be respectful, and have self-worth and confidence. I did fear making wrong choices throughout this field experience. I set high expectations the students to achieve high goals. Teaching to me opened doors to many students’ lives.
Being a teacher is a journey that has much to do with learning about yourself and being aware that what happens in your classroom reflects only on how are you with yourself. Teachers are not conscious that they project into students, and that affects how things go in the classroom. I believe the first characteristic of a good teacher is that he/ she is always willing to analyze his/her teaching performance. Second the teacher is humble enough to receive input about the development and application of techniques, learning from it and improving.
