Harry Wong‚ “How to Be an Effective Teacher: First Days of School” "Effective teachers affect lives‚" say the Wongs. While reading through this book‚ it can be noted that Mr. Wong is very blunt in his ideas of what makes an effective teacher. He demonstrates specific methods that a teacher will use‚ with students or in planning‚ that will be effective or ineffective. Much of the book states strategies that involve positive modeling and expectations‚ classroom management‚ and designing lessons that
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After reading the chapter 6 “Harry and Rosemary Wong on the first thing you should teach” along with watching Wong video‚ I found his information insightful and intriguing as Wong has an unique way of providing the information to teacher which allows them to think about what they have been doing in their classroom to be effective in their management. Wong made a couple of statements that I took note for future references‚ but the ones that stuck out the most where “Effective teacher have a plan‚
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In the first chapter of Freakonomics‚ the authors of the book used a quote that in my opinion best describes the whole idea of the chapter. That quote is “a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for” by W. C. Fields. This quote perfectly summarized the whole chapter’s idea incentives‚ the idea that incentive “is simply a means of urging people to do more of a good thing and less of a bad thing” and how incentive “is a bullet‚ a lever…‚ [and] an often tiny object with astonishing power to
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The social justice issues tackled in Ghettoside surround the growing disregard for the lives of African American males in the United States. The end of the first chapter of Ghettoside‚ Jill Leovy makes her powerful argument stating “for too long black men have lived inadequately protected by the laws of their own country.” (Pg 12) Often from here the question of who is killing black people comes up‚ and while statistically the answer is other black people‚ Leovy’s book lays more importance on the
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After watching the Harry Wong video‚ Mr. Wong addressed the many aspects that come together in order to make an effective teacher. There are many things that make an effective teacher. For example in the video Harry Wong addressed that an effective teacher assigns seats. Another thing that makes and effective teacher is that effective teachers memorize the names of his/her students as soon as possible or they have a list of the names of the students at hand. Harry Wong also talked about the fact
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Sociology Quizz 1. SOCIOLOGY: Sociology is [the systematic study] of [human society and social interaction]. How [behavior is shaped by group life]. How [group life is affected by individuals]. WRIGHT MILLS - SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION: The ability to see the relationship between [immediate social setting] and [public issues]. EMILE DURKHEIM - SUICIDE: [High levels of social integration = low level of suicides]. Example: marriage‚ church‚ clubs. [Low levels of social integration
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Pg.1 The First Day The story is narrated by an adult female who tells the story of her first day of school‚ when she was still very young and unfortunately‚ throughout the years‚ has become ashamed of her mother. The question is: does her first day occur “long before” she “learned to be ashamed” of her mother? Or is she learning to be ashamed before the story ends? In order to give an answer we must first understand what is the narrator ashamed of. The set-up for the beginning of the story
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The first day. The first day‚ by Edward p. Jones. born 1951 is an American novelist and short story writer. His 2003 novel The Known World received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Jones was born and raised in Washington‚ D.C.‚ and educated at both the College of the Holy Cross and the University of Virginia. His first book‚ Lost in the City‚ is a collection of short stories about the African-American working class in 20th-century Washington‚ D.C. In the early stories are some who are like first-generation
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of my alarm clock sounded like a countdown. The first day of high school was only two hours away. I was excited‚ but a lot more nervous. I got out of bed‚ got ready‚ and then was on my way to the bus stop. All I could think of are the stories I heard about CIS being so horrible with all the strict teachers‚ the really hard tests‚ and of course being new doesn’t help either. Everyone feels very anxious and at the same time nervous about their first day of school. The ride to the school was only twenty
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”The First Day” Characterization of the narrator The narrator of the story is 5 years old and from the low end of the social rank. She probably doesn’t have so many material opportunities‚ because her family are getting public assistance payments. Her father left her and her mother‚ she tells us: “…the last present my father gave before he disappeared into memory.” It seems like she a gentle girl and not so boisterous. When she meets a new person she doesn’t
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