Oral Presentation Chapter 17: Academic Freedom and Censorship: Teacher Rights or Responsibilities How should the proper balance between teacher freedom and responsibility be determined? Position 1: Fir increased Academic Freedom: * Schools are at the center of local debates about touchy subjects such as‚ morals‚ sex and sexual orientation‚ religion‚ politics‚ economics‚ racism‚ and a host of other social value controversies. * Censorship denies‚ defeats‚ or diminishes academic freedom
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Background of the Study Teacher evaluation is documenting the quality of teacher’s performance; then its focus shifts to helping teachers improve their performance. The fact that the Baguio Seventh Day Adventist School is an educational institution‚ it evaluate its teacher performance. According to the principal of the school‚ evaluation of teachers by the students started in 2002. Then they do it twice a year. The school conducts the said evaluation in order to see if the teacher is efficient in terms
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Investigating Meaningful Teaching Interview The author had the privelege to interview two different teachers of which were educating different grade levels‚ ages‚ and classroon enviroments. This essay will summarize the interviews and reflect upon why the author wants to join the ranks of special educators‚ what the author learned during the interviews that solidifies his/her desire to be a special educator and the authors personal mission statement. The questions that were asked during these
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Who is a Teacher? By Joe Waldron In the early years of school we are asked to participate in "Show and Tell." Some people dread the experience‚ some people like it so much they spend the rest of their life looking for things they can share with others. When the Show and Tell bug has bitten the young person the student may become a teacher. There are many good teachers we meet in life; a few of us take it up as a profession. Why are some people like this? The best of teachers simply enjoy
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Teacher Tenure Tenure was first adopted for professors in universities to prevent their dismissal based on political‚ personal‚ or other non-work related reasons. It was a protection against any form of dismissal which was unjustified and unfair. Currently tenure is available for K-12 grade level teachers and is granted after a couple of years of evaluation. Although this protection is granted to teachers of all grade levels tenure can potentially and does present problems with the dismissal of
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Teacher Tenures: Good or Bad For Education Teachers have one of the most important jobs in existence. Teaching can be at times a complicated and grueling job. With ever-growing class sizes and constant budget cuts‚ it makes a person wonder why anyone would become a teacher. They teach because they would like to make a difference in the world‚ and a good teacher can change a child’s life. Which is a more then enough reason to fix the problems in the education system. “There are International
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Throughout my life I have been taught by a number of teachers‚ all of whom have had some form of influence on me whether it be positive or negative. However‚ through this intellectual journey I have discovered many qualities that have distinguished these great teachers from the rest. A great teacher has certain qualities that distinguish him/her from the other teachers. He/she shows qualities such as patience‚ kindness‚ flexibility‚ resourcefulness‚ tolerance and open-mindedness. He/she also has
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Teacher enthusiasm Since teachers can affect how students perceive the course materials‚ it has been found that teachers who showed enthusiasm towards the course materials and students can affect a positive learning experience towards the course materials. On teacher or course evaluations‚ it was found that teachers who have a positive disposition towards the course content tend to transfer their passion to receptive students. These teachers do not teach by rote but attempt to find new invigoration
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Teacher Interviews I have many great teachers that have influenced my life through the years. However there are many‚ there are three in particular that have been a large part of my life in high school. Mrs. Sikes‚ Mrs. Conner‚ and Mr. Marlow are the teachers that have been that special part of my life. During my interviews I asked each teacher a few questions relating to their career. First I asked what motivates them to be a teacher. Their answers were really similar. Mr. Marlow said that what
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The poor teaching habits of teachers shows greatly in the way students learn. It causes students to become unmotivated‚ drop out‚ and it also increases their chances of going to prison. In the documentary “Waiting for Superman” states that because of bad teachers students are more likely to fail and drop out of school. In the documentary they showed that bad teachers just sat in class and slept or did not teach but since they had tenure they could not be fired without going through paperwork and
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