Do you believe you will be successful in ensuring high academic
achievement for all students you will teach? Why or why not?
Describe any experience (including experience working with low
income or special needs populations) and/or skills that will help you
improve student outcomes. (200 words)
I believe that i will be successful in ensuring high academic achievement for all
student i will teach because my first priority is the student success with some
strategies that i can employ the student to succeed, like set up a high
expectations by pushing my student to achieve higher standards and offer lots of
praise. Also establish a classroom routine by create an effective and consistent
schedule to follow. Beside vary teaching methods, you provide students with a
greater opportunity to learn because every student has different strengths and
weaknesses.
I worked with nonverbal autistic kid at the beginning he refused to work with me,
so i start with him simple activities that he already know and asked him to do it
using his communication device and every time he finish the task, i praise him
with good words and the toyes he love to play with then a start to establish a
routine to follow to start new teaching skills with him according to his IEP goals
and by trying different way to teach him, he mastered reached his goals.
01Set High Expectations
Cultivate an academic environment in your classroom by
setting high, but not impossible, expectations for your
students. Push students to achieve higher standards and they
will eventually get there -- and along the way, offer lots of
praise. Some may take more time than others, but all students
want to be told, "You're smart and you're doing a good job."
Give high school students college material to read and tell
them, "This story/book/math concept is taught in first-year
colleges around the country." Once the students tackle and
master the material, tell them, "Good job students -- I knew you
could do it."
02 Establish a Classroom Routine
One of the key ways to help young children behave at home is
to create an effective and consistent schedule for them to
follow. Without this type of structure, young children often end
up misbehaving. Secondary school students are no different.
While classroom procedures often take a bit of time and effort
to implement at the beginning of the school year, once
established, they create a structure that will allow you to focus
on teaching rather than handling disruptive issues.
Classroom management should also become a part of the daily
routine. If rules have been made clear from day one, rules and
consequences are posted throughout the classroom, and you
consistently tackle any and all problems as they arise, students
will fall in line and your classroom will run like a well-oiled
machine.
03Practice the 'Daily Fives'
Do the same opening activity during the first five minutes of
class and the same closing activity the last five minutes so that
students know, "OK, it's time to start class, or, "It's time to get
ready to leave." It could be something as simple as having
students get out their classroom materials and sit at their
desks ready to begin at the start of class and putting away their
materials, sitting down and waiting for the bell to ring at the
end of class.
If you are consistent with your daily fives, it will become second
nature to your students. Establishing routines like this will also
help when you need to get a substitute. Students don't like to
deviate from the established norms and will become advocates
in your classroom to make sure things run smoothly.
04Continually Grow in Your Profession
New ideas and research that can enhance your day-to-day
teaching become available yearly. Keeping up with the latest
information through online forums, workshops and
professional journals can make you a better teacher. This will
lead to increased student interest and greater success. In
addition, teaching the same lessons each school year can
become monotonous over time. This can result in uninspired
teaching. Students will definitely pick up on this and become
bored and distracted. Including new ideas and teaching
methods can make a huge difference.
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Vary Your Instruction
Show That You Care About Every Student
Help Students Climb Bloom's Taxonomy Pyramid
This might seem obvious, but every year do a gut check
concerning the students in your class. Are there any students
you have written off? Are there students who are difficult to
When you vary teaching methods, you provide students with a
greater opportunity to learn. Every student has different
strengths and weaknesses. Instead of just focusing on one
method that only appeals to a single learning style, varying
your teaching techniques allow you to cater your lessons to
different learning styles. Students will be more successful if
they are not bored.
For example, instead of lecturing for an entire 90-minutes
class, do 30 minutes of lecture, 30 minutes of work -- involving
as much music, videos and kinesthetic movement as possible --
and then 30 minutes of discussion. Students like it when you
change things up and they're not doing the exact same thing
every class period.
Bloom's taxonomy provides teachers with a great tool that they
can use to measure the complexity of homework assignments
and exams. Moving students up the Bloom's taxonomy pyramid
and requiring them to apply, analyze, evaluate and synthesize
information will result in an increased use of critical thinking
skills and a greater chance for authentic learning.
Bloom's Taxonomy can also help you move students from basic
understanding of concepts to asking more complex questions
like: "What happens if?" Students need to learn how to go
beyond the basic facts: who, what, where and when and
question the world around them. They should be able to explain
their answers as to why they feel a certain way about a concept,
posit changes they would make and explain why. Climbing the
Bloom's Taxonomy ladder can help students do just that.
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reach or who just don't seem to care? Students can sense your
feelings about them, so be very careful with your own beliefs.
Regardless of your personal feelings, it is important that you
work with each of your students to ensure their success. Be
excited with them. Act like you want to be at work and you're
happy to be there and see them. Find out what their hobbies
are, take an interest in their personal lives and try to
incorporate some of that into your lessons.
How to succeed in your class should be easy for all students to
understand. Provide students with a syllabus at the beginning
of the year that explains your grading policies. If you assign a
complicated or subjective assignment such as an essay or a
research paper, give students a copy of your rubric beforehand.
If students participate in science labs, ensure that they
understand exactly how you will be grading their participation
and their work.
For example, if you just toss a C- on an essay but you haven't
edited it or explained why the student got that grade, your
student has no buy-in and will likely put little effort into the
next assignment. Make students check their grades frequently,
or provide them with printouts so they're constantly aware of
where they stand in your class. If they've fallen behind, meet
with them and create a plan to usher them toward success.
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Be Transparent and Ready to Help
