... what they just said and come to a conscious understanding that they were in fact, incorrect. I found that to be a brilliant idea. This way, the teacher doesn't necessarily say "your wrong" in a pointing your finger kind of manner, and it doesn't give the other students an opportunity to tease the ... a very young age. I appreciated Mr. Gonzalez's choice of having the student's use the smart board because I could relate that to Montclair's Portrait of a Teacher. At various times of the day, Mr. Gonzalez used the smart board to use YouTube. He found a song about the seasons and a song abou...

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... the main one being gradual release of responsibility. Defined by Ellen Levy, gradual release of responsibility is a successful approach for moving classroom instruction from teacher-centered, whole group delivery to student-centered collaboration and independent practice (Levy, 2007). This may also be referred to as "I do it, ... chance to succeed. Success also motivates the student. Another thing that promotes motivation is social collaboration. Students should be given opportunities to work with the teacher as well as their peers. I know that I must make sure that I am engaging my stu...

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"We are a nation obsessed with evaluating our children, with calibrating their exact distance from some ideal benchmark." In Lives on The Boundary, Mike Rose goes through many troublesome issues yet he always seems to get through them so graciously and ... connecting with his students, and that is why I really find him interesting and inspiring. He always goes out of his way his way not only to be a teacher, but also as a colleague, and friend. The reason Rose act this way is because to him education is what is most important in lives, especially for children. ... that their disability woul...

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... enroll into college virtually. Online classes are more beneficial to academic success than traditional on-campus courses because of time management, participation, and student/teacher relations. Several activities consume a person's day that affect life. Time is of the essence and needs to be made for friends, family, ... may disclose personal information such as interests, hobbies, family, future goals, ECT...on the page for people to relate with each other. The teacher is regularly "checking in" via email. It is refreshing knowing that they have the students in mind and strive for th...

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... ; (p. 286). This style, which combines caring with high expectations and an authoritative teaching style, is known as a "warm demander" (Gregory & Weinstein, 2008, p. 65). The ideal teacher sets limits, states expectations, enforces rules, avoids power struggles, and does not humiliate students (Bondy et al., 2007). This can be challenging because not every student is the same and ... with the classroom policies we would move on to our normal classroom schedule, if not we would work together to come up with a solution. However in the end I, as the teacher, will always have the final say...

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... most of the percentage up of the year. Not all teenage moms want to dropout of school but sometimes schools do not help matters. Now, of course it is not ideal for a teenage to have a child by any means but that should not give any one or school the right to make the situation harder for the teen if they are ... that have to act as both parents and try their best to support their child but just do not have time for their schooling, and they just hope the school teacher and administration are doing their job. Then there are the parents that just send their child to school and do not foll...

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