My Goals as a Teacher Essay

classes, and met 5 of my greatest friends. I am proud to say I have attended McKeel Academy for 10 years, and I'm even prouder to say I will be a graduate from McKeel. This school has shaped me in to the person I am today, a person I am truly proud of. First, the legacy I want to leave at McKeel is my sense of dedication and goal setting. These qualities were obtained through trial and error, however, they are qualities I am proud of. Once I set my mind to something and make it a "goal" I will…

and eager to learn. Captivating them from a young age is very important in my eyes because I truly believe they are the world’s most precious gift. Having someone to believe in them and encourage them is so important. I hope to give my future students the love along with education to survive in this world, just as my former teachers have for…

love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” This quote is very true to how I view being an educator. The joy of helping children succeed and helping them aspire to be the something great is not what I consider a “job”. I considered it my obligation as a caring and encouraging individual to become a significant part of a student’s personal and academic growth. Teaching is a way of life in which I have aspired to live for quite some time. I believe that education should be an…

As I reflect on my internship I realize it actually started during the summer, my principal asked that I be involved in the Summer Leadership meetings. The school representatives for these meetings were the principal who is a first-year principal with a high school background, the assistant principal who is a first-year administrator and another assistant principal who has spend most of his time in high school, the multi-tiered system of support coach, who is also new to the school and me. This…

order to nurture students to develop these skills, we as teachers need to also evolve our teaching skills by providing learning opportunities that stimulate future work environments. Research shows that cognitively challenging tasks is one of the most effective methods for achieving this goal. Cognitively challenging tasks are open ended tasks that may have more than one answer and a variety of approaches to solving the problems. Teachers are implementing these tasks and the three phrases:…

how teachers and assistants would support children, and what you would want to see in terms of student growth and development. When you enter a high quality pre-kindergarten classroom you feel comforted that everything is in place for children to enjoy learning and to make progress in their development. This happens through the interaction between the physical and social environment. It is observable in the classroom set-up, organization and overall feeling when you enter the room. Teacher…

with a network of life long friends, a double major in Psychology and Sociology title added to my resume, as well as the desire to learn and explore outside of the classroom. I traveled throughout Thailand and Bali, becoming inspired by yoga and the art of meditation. Returning home I engulfed myself in a demanding spiritual and physical training course, earning my certificate as a Registered Yoga Teacher. Then moved to St. John, VI; four thousand miles from the support system at home, into a…

highly important part of teaching. Lesson plans are a teacher’s guide in his or her class room. They outline the learning goals and objectives for a particular lesson or chapter; they may also include the activity the teacher has planned and the supplies they will need to help the students complete that assignment. During my field placement I have yet to see my cooperating teacher plan out her lessons for the week, but it is clear she has a lesson plan. She usually has a lecture planned out for…

as the special education teacher to collaborate it. First person to involved is the classroom teacher. The general education teacher keeps track of student’s attendance to see if attendance is interfering with student’s ability to learn. The general education teacher delivers class wide instruction and helps with screening of all students. The general education teacher will provide targeted interventions to small groups as need. In some cases general education teachers share the responsibility…

taught me a lot of a valuable lessons, it taught me how to use my time wisely and even after all of this lessons I still have struggles that I am trying to overcome. One of the valuable lessons that I was taught in Language Arts Lab is how to set goals for myself and how to actually achieve them. Just like most of the freshmen three years ago, for me goals were the score that the soccer players get in the soccer game. I didn’t set any goal for myself. I was new and I was just beginning a new…