... learn. I believe that the temperature of the room, having tables instead of desks, and the overall decorations of a classroom play a big part in designing an ideal learning environment. First of all, keeping a classroom too cold or exceptionally hot can easily distract students. For example, if the classroom is extremely cold students won't ... everybody is hard. However, it's not hard to see if over half of the class is too hot or cold. In view of that, my ideal classroom would stay at the most enjoyable temperature possible. It's plain to see that something as small as the classroom ...

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... 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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"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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... 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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... of her work is very dark, as her mind was. Her life, work and depression have fascinated many people for decades. Her childhood, and early years were ideal, and did not favor those of a person who would suffer such a case of depression as hers. She was born on October 27, 1932, she grew up ... happy for most of their marriage. Her father Otto was a German who came to study ministry at Northwestern University, and ended up a Biology teacher at Boston University, he specialized in bees, which explains Sylvia's references in much of her poetry to a beekeeper. Her mother was a German and Eng...

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... so readily available. One must take into consideration the fact that either consciously or subconsciously the American culture would rather look past historical fact and continue believing in the institutionalized ideal of Columbus and his discoveries. Thus, the solution to the problem can not simply make people believe, but rather teach people to belief in the truth. The idea of teaching ... could also provide some problems because to teach the teacher needs to believe in what they are teaching, and if the teacher was taught that Columbus was the discoverer of North America what is one...

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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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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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... instead of taking care of just the house, she should be given a chance to be educated and work. Jane works as a governess and a teacher. In those times many women wanted the right to vote and be learned. For a middle class woman who doesn't have a family, becoming a governess was the ... ideal job. Though in this novel the task of a governess has been shown to be very fruitful as Jane's relationship with Mrs Fairfax is very smooth ... and the romantic relationship that she shares with her employer even though it breaks the boundary of hierarchy. Bronte doesn't portray Jane as the ideal...

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... laws. Thus, in different societies and under different authorities, justice is different. In this view, the idea that there is some sort of universal ideal or natural law is often just an argument by those who do not like the laws of the government in power. The opposing view argues that there ... is a natural ideal of justice that law aspires to that can be used as a criteria to measure whether laws are just or not. This school of thought ... as people who support the concept of natural law or natural justice. Catholic social teaching is partly based on the assumption principle that th...

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... for foreign language classrooms to create inhibitions and anxiety. It is not uncommon to find a teaching situation where the learners remain constantly aware of their own states of ignorance before a teacher who possesses all relevant knowledge." Meaning, material should be presented in such a way that it is possible for the learners to be self-monitoring. Ideally, questions and answers should be ... to use the target language to achieve communicative purposes" as suggested by Jayakaran (2003). As we know, learners learn as much from each other as they do from their own teacher. As sugg...

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... not exist in isolation; there must be neibors." Confucius molded Chinese civilization in general, and is said to be the "father" of modern Chinese philosophical developments. Confucius looked to the ideal man, rather than any supernatural being for inspiration. He taught unity overall, once he was quoted as saying, "by nature men are alike, through practice they have become far apart ... subject, friend and friend, and husband and wife. Symbolism within Li is extremely central. Confucius once was approached by Tzu-Kung, a pupil and asked his teacher "What would you say about me as a per...

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... laws. Thus, in different societies and under different authorities, justice is different. In this view, the idea that there is some sort of universal ideal or natural law is often just an argument by those who do not like the laws of the government in power. The opposing view argues that there ... is a natural ideal of justice that law aspires to that can be used as a criteria to measure whether laws are just or not. This school of thought ... as people who support the concept of natural law or natural justice. Catholic social teaching is partly based on the assumption principle that th...

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... the current ideals of Puritan morality. The motivation that guided the missionaries and philanthropists in their approach to educating the freedmen was the ideal of industrial education which included the training of labor workers. Booker T. Washington embraced this ideal making him a prominent figure that was well respected by many whites. The "talented tenth" did not wind up fulfilling Du Bois ... a "black list" indicating that they were not fit to teach in Negro schools because they did not have the "right" philosophy of racial adjustment. In addition a teacher could be placed upon t...

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