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Describe how you will combine your current knowledge and skills as an educator to “meet students where they are” while you are in your field experience?   As you move into this new educational environment, what adaptive skill will you employ to help you navigate this opportunity?   Moving into Sophomore Block is a new experience with…

From my research on our second conceptual framework, I have gathered many different ideas on when I can apply myself as an educator. These ideas focus on the sociology and psychology of the classroom and how it plays a role in the development of a child/adolescent. In my research, I gathered that social anxiety and…

My theory on child and adolescent development has evolved throughout my time as an education major and the many different elements have formed my theory. Another aspect to developing a theory on this subject is very complicated and vast, so for me to speak on this theory I need to use what I have experienced…

Using developmental principles is necessary in almost any curriculum because it fits the specific age and developmental process of a child. To be developmentally appropriate is to use the proper curriculum. There are many ways we can use developmental principles to meet the needs of the students where they are. One main way to use…

Each age of all students has different goals, paths and what is most important to their age level. When you focus on older ages such as a 14 year old which is a very crucial part of a child’s life because this is when social factors start playing a much more important role in their…

I have encountered many different school experiences that have impacted my developmental pathway at every stage of my life. An impact experience that I specifically remember was in 6th social studies in a project activity that we spent weeks preparing for. The classroom project was based around a living museum where each group was assigned…

Having a teaching philosophy is important to every teacher and every teacher has one. It is how the teacher runs their classroom and how the students participate within that environment. Every teacher has their philosophy and they can correlate in some aspects with the 5 teaching philosophies which we discussed in class. Essentialism, perennialism, progressivism,…

The school inquiry project which we have worked on for the last of our class has given us a lot of knowledge and insights which we can carry on into our future. I think one takeaway from this project was that it made us better interpreters of information. One example of how we could possibly…

I have a lot of takeaways from my village project experience. So here are my ten main takeaways from my time working as a tutor.  The first takeaway I got from the experience was how to adapt to challenging situations within my teaching. I think being able to adapt to different challenges helps me become…

The Ed talk discussions created very interesting topics to talk about and what we may not often talk or think about within a classroom setting. Many of the topics we talked about were childhood trauma and common experiences a child might experience. In the ed talks, we discussed how to approach these subjects as an…