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Write a 500- to 700-word reflection on the reasons why you are interested in a career
in education, and what you expect classroom dynamics to be like. What inspired you?
What does the ideal classroom environment look like in your mind? How will your
past experiences as a student or in your current line of work influence how you will
manage a class full of students?
Respond to the following in 200 to 250 words: In your opinion, what are the most
challenging obstacles teachers faces when managing the classroom? What
strengths do you possess that will help you meet and overcome those challenges?
Select one challenge for a teacher, and one challenge for a student.
Explain in 200 to 300 words which strategies you would use to mediate those
selected challenges posed by seat work.
Write a one-sentence goal for each of the seven assumptions that will support a
productive and positive learning atmosphere. Your goals should focus on how you
can achieve the demands of each assumption.
Resource:
Checkpoint: Earth Day
Poster multimedia interaction located on your student Web site at
Appendix D, and pp. 268269, Ch. 9 of Elementary Classroom Management.
Complete Appendix D.
Professionals are always learning while they are educating. Like all newcomers to
any career, inexperienced education professionals cannot expect to be perfect their
first time in the classroom. One strategy to avoid becoming overwhelmed by a new,
dynamic working environment is to select the most important areas to focus on,
develop them well, then broaden the scope of focus once a foundation in the basics is
laid.
Address students who are not engaged in the lesson. How would you approach the
disengaged students, and what would you do to get them interested in completing
and learning from the lesson? Use strategies for motivating disengaged students
discussed in Ch. 7.
Imagine that you are invited to the third and final round of interviews for your dream
job in the education field. All of the candidates with whom you are competing have
equal experience and qualifications. The members of the hiring committee are going
to offer the position to the candidate
Select one of the six inclusion arguments in Table 12.1. The table includes both sides
of each argument.
Identify atleast three factors in the vignette that threaten activity flow. Address the
interruptive factors. Using at least 100 words for each factor, address what strategies
covered in the text, or from personal experience, could be implemented to maximize
focus and productivity?
Review the methods for monitoring student progress presented in Ch. 6 (pp. 187
191) of the text. Each method presents a monitoring strategy for a particular type of
activity or situation in a classroom, such as learning centers or independent work.
Think about the last time you were excited to learn about a particular topic. What
made it exciting, and why were you motivated to learn? Was the motivation intrinsic
or extrinsic? How did your excitement relate to the expectancy-value model? Think
about the last time you were not excited to learn about a topic. How might the
expectancy-value model explain your lack of motivation?
Review the Discussion Question: Earth Day Poster multimedia interaction located on
your student web page . Describe at least one challenge any of the students in Group
4 faced as a result of working on a collaborative assignment, and at least one
challenge the teacher failed to meet