Growth mindset is something that teachers and students both need to use in the classroom and school. Growth mindset can be useful and should be used in certain situations as a teacher. Growth mindset as a teacher is “knowing all your students can learn at high levels”, “understanding as an educator that you as well …
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Bullying Prevention
Bullying in the classroom or a school is something that is never acceptable and needs to be dealt with at the source. Bullying is a touchy subject and should be talked about at a young age throughout the years of school. My belief on bully prevention in my classroom and school is to have every …
Peer Presentation
One of the peers presentations stuck out to me and that was the peer who talked about being silly and joking around in your classroom. One of the reasons that I liked what my peer talked about was because I feel as if it can apply to my physical education classroom. For this to work …
Relationships in the Classroom
Being a students who wants to be a secondary teacher it is vital to try to build relationships with the students. When talking about relationships I mean positive relationships, a kind of relationship that is fulfilling yet challenging at the same time. From an article that I read the author quoted a man by the …
Trauma Informed Practice
During the span of being an educator your going to have to deal with students that have trauma from home experiences. Whether it is abuse, neglect, or dysfunction at home. Now when I talk about abuse it can be talked about in different ways. Physical, emotional, and sexual. Those are stigmas that are hard to …
Differentiated Instruction
Differentiated Instruction is based on learning styles and the ability to learn. When thinking about differentiated instruction in the classroom or in my case the gym, we have to find ways to implement activities for the needs of all students. When creating a lesson plan teachers need to be mindful of the fact that we …
School Mission Statement
When writing a vision or mission statement I want to ensure the parents and the community that the school will be safe and always positive. Making sure both the parents and the community are involved in the school is key, the support from those two defenitly helps. I also wanted to mention how students of …
Life Skills
Life skills can have a variety of meaning and a variety of choices to choose from. There are a ton of things in my area that I can teach that can be related to life skills or a life long skill in itself. Physical activity is one of the most life long skills someone can …
Social Interventions in a Classroom Setting
When thinking about a classroom what do they look like? Probably a lot of direct teaching, maybe some busy work to get the students to do something and give the teacher a break from lecturing. Social Interventions is put in place to stop all of that, we are seeing to many students to shy and …
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B. F. Skinner
When researching a psychologist I wanted to find something that I related to as well as a relation to classroom management. Skinner was the psychologist who was found to create the Operant Conditioning Theory. This theory was designed to shape behavior by Positive Reinforcement, Negative Reinforcement, and Punishment. Positive Reinforcement is a type of shaping …
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