A Real Education / Teachers: Max Tauber, Alejandro Barriga

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Unit: Teaching Practice

Theme: A Real Education and Mini-Lessons

Introduction

 

 Student teaching or teaching practice is a supervised instructional experience; usually the culminating course in a university or college undergraduate education or graduate school program leading to teacher education and certification.

 

Today, students will be introduced to two new teaching experiences led by Alex Trombley, Logan Bright and Nydia Kyriakopoulos

II

Learning Objectives

 

• Understand the dynamics of teaching a dance/movement lesson
• Explain the different parts of a lesson plan in written form
• Gain an awareness of the importance of the creative method
• Experience the creative method through teaching a dance/movement lesson

 

 

 III

Main Lesson

 

Mini-Lessons

Max Tauber

Alejandro Barriga

IV

A Note to Remember

"Failing to plan is planning to fail." 

 

V 

Case Study 

 

 

A real education: The plight of teachers

 

QUESTION

 After watching this video, please write your response to the situation teachers are currently going through financially, professionally, socially, psychologically and emotionally.

VI 

Journaling

VII

Glossary

VIII

Sources

IX

Students' Work

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LESSON PLAN

2

LESSON PLAN 

Alejandro Barriga

Lesson Plan - Shapes

Introduction
• Get ready to explore circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles!
We'll learn their special features and how to spot them in the world
around us.

Objectives
• Learn Shapes

Competency

 

 Activity

• Quick 5-10 min explanation of the different shapes
• Circles
• Students count the number amount of circle they just learned
• Rectangle
• Students count the number amount of rectangle they just
learned
• Square
• Students count the number amount of square they just learned
• Triangle
• Students count the number amount of triangle they just learned

Assessment -
• Final application towards Real World
• Students will count how many shapes they will see within the
actual 

Alejandro's Presentation

 

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Feedback to Video

Rita Grinfeder

RE: Feedback

There are 205 open teaching positions in Miami-Dade County Public Schools right now. I did my observation in Tucker Elementary my freshman year and I was fortunate enough to have a teacher who was very open and spoke to me about what her life was like as a teacher. Because of the amount she was paid, she lives in homestead and has to drive an hour to get to school everyday because she cannot afford to live closer. Infact, she told me that she only makes enough to cover her rent. Her husbands income paid for everything else. However, if she didn't have the support of her husband she would not be able to afford to live within an hour radius of the school that she teaches. She told me she used to work multiple jobs but because of her age and her commute to school that is no longer possible. I also observed at a private kindergarten and another teacher told me that in order to make enough money to live a comfortbale life in Miami he worked four jobs: teacher, karate instructor, tutor, and nanny on the weekend. This is the life of most teachers in Miami. 

You asked us to come up with a solution to this problem but unfortunatley, I think this is one of those things that doesn't have a clear cut solution. No one wants to pay more taxes and the government is not willing to reallocate money.Because of that, this is a problem teachers will continue to fight and teachers will continue to leave their jobs.