As a teacher, my purpose is to teach and educate students so that they could become productive citizens in society. But in order for that to happen, there ... the reinforcement of positive behavior. If I react to bad behavior constantly, then it will never end. I know that classroom behavior is inevitable but I will do my best to keep my students in order and on task. I will also deal with any misbehavior quickly and fair. I will also constantly remind students of the rules and consequences by putting ... and placing them in a conspicuous place. I believe that positive reinforcement keeps mo...

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... true and what is not, what information we can trust, and where to find this reliable information. Using myself as an example, my high school, Ranney School, enforced the rule that every student should have a laptop for both notebook purposes along with research purposes. It also stated that every classroom should have access to the Internet along with the connection to a functioning ... smart-board. Although all great qualities of the school, I noticed teachers getting lazy. For example, in my Spanish class, instead of teaching herself, my teacher would use foreign language sites to sho...

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... a bad child, nor did I want to be. I usually did my work as I was told to, but this day I was feeling unusually rebellious, almost as though a burst of energy had shot through my young undeveloped body. I ripped a piece of paper out of my notebook and scribbled a note to a classmate, a note which normally I would ... not have wrote a note which I swore in. In my note I depicted the substitute as a "bitch" and stated that I ... that picking through the trash and recycling bin to find note pieces was fun. They picked through and pieced entire notes back together. Of course my note was f...

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... of good lesson planning. However, as a teacher, I will have to deal with a range of unexpected problems; namely with implementation, enforcement, and discipline of an in institution's policies. I will give you my previous experiences and ideas how I would deal with the problems; "English only" policies, tardiness policies, helping students preparing for their lesson presentations, etc." The English only rule will ... owed teacher that time. He gave students a certain number of chances (1-3) before instituting. This positive punishment seemed work well because they wanted to go home with...

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