TEACHER ASSESSMENT

Education is one of the most significant inheritance that a person can receive from his or her parents. It is a universal fact that such is also the responsibility of parents to provide their children with the appropriate education because this would help them once they enter the real world and beyond the comfort of the home. Around the world, the youth are considered the futures of each society and letting them have a nurturing and progressive education is relevant because they would eventually contribute towards the success of each society. As such, society is dependent with culture that is defined by Olivier Serrat as: "The totality of a society's distinctive ideas, beliefs, values, and knowledge and that which exhibits the ways humans interpret their environments" (1). With this in mind, a society with a single culture would have a united ideas, beliefs, values, knowledge and environmental view in as far as the definition of Serrat is concerned. However, what abou...

Teachers have the difficult challenge of squeezing a jam-packed lesson full of projects, exercises, examples, and explanations into an hour or two time slot. It is massively overwhelming for the beginner teacher, but it doesn't have to be. I've provided six of the best tips for newbie teachers who want to efficiently run an organized classroom while creating a learning environment where students want to read.   Invest in a Timer I would not be a good teacher if I didn't have a timer. Once you gain more experience, you'll notice how students are still learning the concept of working quickly. A timer holds the teacher and the students accountable for the work they do. If I have a lot of material I need to cover, I've got to allot each section of my lesson to a specified time such as 5 minutes for the warm-up and 15 minutes for the introduction to new material. Folders for Everybody Label a two-pocket folder for each student. Allocate a folder for...

Teachers who have successful classrooms will often use a variety of different teaching strategies. Because each child learns differently and has different needs, a teacher must be aware of different ways to teach each type of student. Many strategies have been developed in order to compensate for the different ways that students learn. A student will no longer have an unsuccessful educational career if they don't learn in the typical way of most students; new lesson plans and assessments offer a variety of learning tools for every different student. Along with using various teaching strategies in the classroom, it is imperative that teachers understand the core curriculum and its goals. State standards are often set for each subject to ensure that students are learning the necessary pieces of each topic and subject. CCSS, or Common Core State Standards has worked to provide a clear and concise list for students, parents and teachers to better understand what is expec...