Educational Psychology AEDU

I interview Melissa Watson who is a science teacher and an assistant principal at a local middle school in Chicago. Norma:  Melissa thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me today. This interview is about your classroom management style. How long have you been a teacher? Melissa: You're more than welcome and I've been teaching for 8 years. 3 years here. Norma: Let's start with how you construct your class when it come to classroom management? Melissa:  Over the last few years I've started with a behavior contract. •At the beginning of the school year the students comes up with a list of rules and consequences that we put down on paper. • The list of rules/ consequences will be created by each student in class, if the class is large then the students may group up and create their questions. • After all rules have been agreed upon the students get a copy and they must all sign it. I keep the sign copy until the end of the school year. Their par...

Doing this week's readings and videos, classroom management was very much the target topic.  Chapter 7 focused a lot on behavior, different learning strategies and motivation.  The text uses the term reinforcement in a different way than we've normally understood it.  The time reward never comes to mind when I was younger thinking of reinforcement.  However, if I continue to do something that I wasn't supposed to do my parents reinforced the consequences for the behavior (Pg257). The two different types of reinforcement talked about in the text talk about are very different to me,  However, I do agree with the using a reinforcement schedule to keep students behavior on target.  I believe that the praise and ignore approach can definitely be helpful in softer the classroom. There are students who do not care about learning and their motivation is to throw the class off track. I have seen this behavior in my classroom. Those students behavior may form becaus...

When I heard of autism disorder I was very interested in learning more about what autism really was. I have a 17-year-old nephew who's a senior in high school who was diagnosed with autism when he was 10 months old. Nolan came to live with us straight from the hospital. He was my mother's biological grandson, whose mother was addicted to drugs. Along with being diagnosed with Autism, he is deaf. In one ear he would only hear 30% and the other he could only hear about 10%. According to the text,  Autism is a developmental disorder significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction (pg 155).  We notice there was something wrong with Nolan early on because he couldn't sit or roll over. Nolan wasn't able to walk until he was 3 years old. Nor was he able to speak.  He had a team of specialists who met with him 3 times a week to get him acclimated to standing, walking and talking.  Inside of the text Intervention at an early age is important...

Trinity Christian College Field Experience Form Context for Learning Description of School and Students About the School Where You Are Observing or doing Field Experience School Name and City:  Longwood CICS Chicago Type of School: Elementary School Setting: Urban Write your responses to the three questions below in paragraph form. 1.List any special features of the school or classroom setting (e.g., themed magnet, classroom aide, bilingual, co-taught with a special education teacher, pull-out program). Longwood did not have any special features in the class I was in, however they do have a pullout program as well as a special education classroom. 2.Describe any district, school, or cooperating teacher requirements or expectations that affects the planning or delivery of instruction, such as required curricula, pacing plan, use of specific instructional strategies, or standardized tests. Longwood CICS is apart of a charter network and they have their own curricula that t...

Are there good teachers? Are there bad teachers?  Do teachers make a difference? These are some of the questions that I feel we're being addressed in chapter one of the Woolfolk text. These are major questions that an educator should ask themselves when entering or reevaluating their role in the class. Teachers have a major responsibility inside the classroom, However, the impact of the students lives outside of the classroom affects them in more ways than one. I strongly agree that the teachers-students relationship is a huge component to the success of a child academically (Pg 7). Positive teacher relationships predicted positive student engagement at every grade level.  Not only do teachers need to foster relationships with students, but they must also be able to adapt to new strategies as well as old components of teaching. Since technology is forever changing our world it is important for teachers to stay current and have the ability to go with the change (pg9). Just as...