Fri, Oct 13, 2023 12:01 AM in Establishing Authority, While Keeping it Student-Centered
Hi Isabel!
My name is Marlenee Villasenor, and I am also a senior in the Elementary Education program at SIU. I think that the very first thing you must do to create an authoritative environment is to set simple, short but strong ground rules. Children, especially the little ones, need rules because they might not be aware of what the expectations are in the classroom. A second approach is cre...
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Thu, Oct 12, 2023 11:47 PM in Advise for an ELA teacher in a science classroom
Hi Nora!
My name is Marlenee Villasenor and I am also a senior in the Elementary Education program at SIU.
As opposed to you, my weakness is ELA. I think that since your strength is ELA, it won’t be too difficult to be integrated into many subjects including science. Allowing your students to have a choice and creativity with their writing and reading implies allowing them to explore, obser...
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Thu, Oct 12, 2023 10:55 PM in Discourse/Syntax
Hi Andrea!
My name is Marlenee Villasenor and I am also a senior in the Elementary Education program at SIU.
First of all, I think your approach of providing a vocabulary bank in an activity worksheet is a great choice because your students will be able to observe the way you want them to use this particular vocabulary in your lesson and use this activity to orally express the vocabulary yo...
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