... arguments for both sides. This argument is especially brought up in college/university regulations. Professors walk the thin line of being an involved teacher and an inappropriate one. This line is discussed in the article The Right to Romance by Paul R. Abramson, and Eros, Eroticism and ... that isn't possible, another option would be to have another professor, or a teaching assistant to do the grading. Though the options aren't ideal, nor perfect, they are reasonable and have been accepted in other professions. Many people are finding that these rules shouldn't be allowed, and ... " T...

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... herself/himself to do a good job because, above all, it is a kind of responsibility, so to speak, toward their students and relevantly toward themselves. No matter if a teacher had no chance to chose this job by herself/himself or if it's the other way round namely that the job teaching students is her/his vocation, in both cases, ... her as a highly rigid and sadisdically Draconian professor but she was everything else but strict. In fact, she was a person of an amiable and gentle nature which made her an ideal teacher to nearly everyone. I recall, whenever she talked about an episode...

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... endless amount of factors that play a role in an education. One of the most common problems in education today is the lack of motivation by the students. A successful or ideal education comes from more than just the textbooks. Parents should be concerned. Teachers should be devoted. Students must be willing. Parents impact their children from day one. They watch and ... their nightly studies, and can discuss their children's feelings about education" (Lewis, 39) It is a necessity in a successful education to have parent involvement. Teachers are very important to education. The teacher i...

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... hidden curriculum caters for the diverse differences in the school society. These differences can be said to include racial background, cultural background, gender, morality and religion and of course the teacher's own personal belief system. Porter discusses the idea that children learn outside the classroom, through the discipline practises of the school and through their contact with their peers in the ... their 3. school has set and most importantly by the way in which the teachers personal values and attitudes, as well as personality affects the knowledge transfer and exhibition of i...

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There are many ideas as to what constitutes an ideal education. A number of factors come together to make an ideal education. Parents have to be concerned with the education of their children. Teachers must be completely devoted to ... place to helping the students understand and appreciate themselves as unique individuals who accept complete responsibility for their thoughts, feelings, and actions. The teacher's role is to help students define their own essence by exposing them to various paths they may take in life and creating an environment ... In an existentialist curriculum, students...

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... teaching (1992:318) argues, 'If classroom dicourse it to reflect the characteristics of ordinary conversation, the initiative for starting talk or dtermining topics should not be excercised by the teacher alone.' The success of any conversation or interaction will depend on the various participants approach to the exchange. These co-operative principles are particularly relevant in a classroom environment and Grice ... maxims of quantitiy ,quality,relation and manner if applied in the classroom can lead to effective and targetted exchanges.Line 3 of the transcription as pupil 1 responds...

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... what goes on inside the classroom. Others feel that it should be more of an open relationship, where the students can comfortably learn from the teacher while the teachers can also learn from the students. The ideal teacher-student relationship should be a two sided one. The students should maintain the respect that they have always shown for their teachers, but also not be ... help students better understand information in their own ways making it easier for students to remember data and develop critical thinking skills. In regards to the teacher's responsibility, the teacher should al...

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... from outside influences. Getting the parents involved with Sally's behavior problem in the classroom is ways of helping the student achieve goals. I know from my experience as a pre-school teacher there are the ideal students and some students that others deem difficult. I tried to learn how to totally accept each child for who they are. Being a positive influence and having a positive attitude ... goes along way with a difficult child. The second humanistic attitudes I would instill in teachers is genuineness. This trait expresses sincerity in thought and motivation. I think that childr...

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... in chemistry class, and students are sitting quietly waiting for the lunch bell to ring. In front of them, the teacher is sitting quietly and grading papers. Behind the teacher, the white board is covered with daily assignments, which consist of reading section four and answering the questions in the ... room in which the student sits in. Percy argues that many years after a student has learned something, it will be the smell of the teacher or the room, not the material, that he or she will remember. Similarly, Freire's argument that education is spoiled now can be greatly attributed ......

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As I would sit there in class I could hear my teacher's monotone rant, but I couldn't concentrate, it was too hot, also I could hear the drone from the broken air conditioner, and just couldn't wait to hear the ... that would release me on my break. This was what it came to, for the classes that didn't motivate me to learn, I became bored and listening to the teacher became an exercise in futility. My school education quality varied from year to year, some years I had the worst teachers, whom would do the minimum to teach and ... Due to their current wages as stated by Moore it is hard to be...

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... student to study and forget the information. Paulo Freire refers to this type of education as the "banking" method. "Narration (with the teacher as the narrator) leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated content (Gumnior 99)." By this, Freire is saying that when the ... the student is too busy taking notes on what he or she is saying to actually listen and be involved with the importance of the teacher's lecture. Although multiple-choice tests are at the center of this style of education, not all teachers use this system. The current system ... causes the students to under...

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My Philosophy on Classroom Discipline My philosophy regarding the best way to manage a classroom is through a model of ownership and preventative discipline. In order to accomplish this, the teacher needs to set the tone for the class during the first two weeks of school and never veer from it. During this time, the students will be made aware of ... only serves to embarrass him. If this happens regularly, I will speak with the individual alone after class. The ideal classroom would involve a teacher who sits back and allows the class to teach and discipline it. This is not really the case. ...

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... views. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee depict a story based on the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925. The Scopes trial is based on a teacher, John Scopes, who was tried for breaking the law that states teaching evolution was illegal in public schools. The lawyers were the two most powerful figures ... in that time. In Inherit the Wind the teacher's name was changed to Bertram Cates, the prosecutor Matthew Harrison Brady, the defense attorney Henry Drummond. Brady tries to depict Cates as a person ... Drummond enthusiastically portrayed this point, that humans have the right to think, so w...

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My Philosophy on Classroom Discipline My philosophy regarding the best way to manage a classroom is through a model of ownership and preventative discipline. In order to accomplish this, the teacher needs to set the tone for the class during the first two weeks of school and never veer from it. During this time, the students will be made aware of ... only serves to embarrass him. If this happens regularly, I will speak with the individual alone after class. The ideal classroom would involve a teacher who sits back and allows the class to teach and discipline it. This is not really the case. ...

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... both positive and negative views on these fairly new standards. They theory behind this new way of teaching show promising results, but many critics believe they were "based on ideal situations/aspirations in education by people who have funding and for students who already are ahead of the learning curve." In other words, the standards were created without every child ... ;do not guarantee improvements in testing on the global scale", "cannot be tailored to all of the diverse population of our nation", and "a program created on ideal situations/aspirations in education by people who hav...

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... of view from a brother that looks like me, / but that brother don't- / walk like me / talk like me / or / act like me" (192). Ansante points out that even when the teacher is black, he or she usually teaches from the perspective of the dominant group and may not have the same experiecens as the students. Asante portrays that education curriculum is ... taught from the perspective of one racial group what they believe is ideal and relevant. The poem critiques the point of view that everyone should leave school thinking the same way: "Mastering their thoughts and forgetting our own." (192...

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... supposedly taught to us as an early age, but ironically can never be achieved within the very schools we attend. On my very first day of elementary school, my Kindergarten teacher introduced herself to the class and shared with us what her aspirations were for the upcoming school year. She listed such things as counting, painting, and she even mentioned reading ... the number of times our class would focus on the very subject of equality. We must have read the beginning of the Declaration of Independence fifty times. It is the ideal that our whole nation is supposedly based upon. We hol...

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... amount of Physical Education provided by elementary schools was 1 hour a week ( Webb, 1999, p. 99). This amount of time is usually divided into two thirty-minute sessions. 2.5 hours a week is the ideal time that should be spent on physical education. The low amount of time spent on physical education shows how important many school boards view physical education. It seems that physical ... money is allocated for various programs. Physical education professionals are often laid off because of a lack of funds. The responsibility of teaching physical education is often given to the classro...

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... me. If they don't learn to be responsible from me then they won't ever learn it. Once when I was 10 I found a wallet in the playground and I gave it to the teacher in case anyone came looking for it. I know from experience that when you lose your wallet it is a great loss, so I went and returned the wallet. Ever since then I have ... to think everyday, so that I will not discriminate anyone and I will have respect for myself. I think being an unprejudiced student is one of the major keys in to becoming an ideal student not only for my teachers, but also for myself. The integrity that I ...

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... free time, he learned much philosophy. (Michele) Rousseau left Madame de Warens in 1740 and worked as a clerk or tutor. In 1742 he went to Paris, he worked as a music teacher, music copyist, and political secretary. He soon became a friend of Denis Diderot, the French philosopher who commissioned him to write articles on music for the French Encyclopedia. With help of ... was acquired through the youth's innate curiosity, not the statements of others. Rousseau had no formal education at his youth; he did not have an instructor to give him this ideal one-to-one education. Child-center ed...

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Raising children in nuclear families consists of being a form of a conjugal family. THe common conjugal family in our western society usually contains a mother, father, and their off-spring. In this ideal setting the father will go to work and provide for the family, while the mother stays at home to raise the children. In modern times the roles have been reversed ... go to work leaving the children with an alternative care- giver. The mother is expected to be their main care-giver and nurturer. She is also often the the child's teacher until he or she is of school age. However, once the chi...

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