Jan 19, 2007 00:38
Two Interviews
Chelsea Mcnay:
I have strong work ethic
Want to do well will help in life get good job
Teachers taught always work first
Family always work before fun
Parents are able to help but relatives do math
Would be willing to go to tutor
Or willing to ask questions
Studies for larger tests early a couple days before (avoids cramming)
Science doesent need to study for earlier
Kids learn more with engaging teacher with fun ms. Cook she worked harder
Mr soly doesent care much and she works down to teachers level and takes advantage kinda of him. Soley doesent work them hard or discipline
Parents expect anything higher than a C
kids that she likes help her work harder and work together finds people she works well with not necessarily best friend but someone she works well
good at staying organized she doesent forget things
Anna Scherbina
Me and my girl ooh ahh ooh stand behind bushes when we wanna kiss
Do your work and to the best of your ability
Perserverence working till you get it done
Parents, teachers, environment: providing a good work ethic in the beginning around them
If you don’t have one and with teacher that are lax you can still develop work ethic but its much harder
Really wants to do well in school so it drives her to work hard
Know shes not perfect
Self pressure not parents not into it
Laces sets high standards to help her out in college and career later
Its important to her.. “gateway to a good career”
Parents work really hard mom and dad both work never slack off
Never forced her to work but she knew that was what was to do
Award system: At 5 or 6 don’t know why to do homework candy or movie will motivate them to get work done
Classroom environment is important they learn how to get by in class
Some teachers are very demanding and so they were very disciplined others are not as strict and take advantage of them
Never took advantage or lowered work level.. knows that it will come back to her later
Factor of loosing focus: starting is the hardest part of the work.. it takes a lot to open a book and after that just work for set times like 20 minutes break and then work 40 minutes till work is done.
Distractions because there is too much around them.. Internet is bad needed for homework but you get lost in its enourmacy she finds that the hardest
Music its both ways: helps to focus, some people not. Doesn’t work for her
Own motivation, desire to succeed, good carreer and money.. interest in subjects
Shes very interested in math and sciences, and
Good teacher teaching extremely important
Great English teacher has motivated her to work on writing has good ideas, suggestions
She sees improvement in her English work in just a couple months
Elliana Estrada:
Doing job right and being honest at work not being rude to your coworkers
Hers not good
Doesn’t get along with other students, doesn’t work well with others
Subject loves French but hates English barely got a B in it, this year barely got an A
Cause of teacher.. ms braer threatens people turns you off doesent want to do work
Ms. cook More interesting discussions, more fun, positive. 50/50 she engages students and students give in their effort. cook Not 80, feel like they can relate more than older teacher not as positive. Likes to sit in circle with moody cause its like a family. Other kids are willing to work hard and is real engaged and do better. She gets disappointed when people don’t focus and read all day and not learn but then complains when they don’t learn.
Mr rusin isn’t engaged, Cameron listens to ms. Moody and she likes him but she doesent do anything in rusins. Moody’s engaging and fun, rusin doesn’t have any control over his class
Rusin is a teacher and it is his responsibility to get students working hard
People don’t like school take opportunities’ to not listen to a teacher
If ms. Moody would tell everyone to shut up and sit down they would cuase they care
Personal connection is important
Her parents have high expectations they feel a lot of c’s mean she’s doing bad
Pretty big influence for her. If they didn’t care a lot and get mad she would be getting c’s.
Only one of her elementary school teacher cared about them but it didn’t make problems for her with organization skills and time management. Those teachers weren’t engaging. She thinks biggest thing a teacher can do in elementary school is be fun and teach what’s right and wrong and make kids interested and enjoy the day.
Never learned but was important outlining, plot lines, planning, and time managements organizing
She wants to get organized and managed but she doesn’t know how.. cant make a good plan to get things done. She won’t be able to do it appropriately because she’s not learned enough about work skills.
Teacher Interviews
Mrs. Chartier:
persons inner motivation to succeed or do what there is to do
comes from parents by being a model pick up your toys, helping out. Environment
early on is really important, its harder to learn it later.
Middle school is the time where people “take on yes im neat organized person or not”
Harder for parents in teen years teens rebel. Its up to middle school teachers to say heres what you have to do or else youll pay the price. Teen needs to pick up the thought that they control their life and they need to take hold of that.
Young people ignore fact that If your not educated or hard working you wont make it in the world
Kids in bad situations that do well. People come from where parents aren’t together they don’t have the books it makes them work harder to escape the situation their in. to not work three jobs
Friends in the classroom are critical
She wouldn’t be a teacher if she didn’t feel it was the most important time of the life 11 12 years. They become solidified. Is edu Something im interested in or do I blow it off.
Says schools design is not appealing. Sit down do your work doesent work for kids
She knows how to balance fun with strictness. Will use it for a
For me all the upper-middle class going on to higher education moved on with harder classes with all the smart kids I wanted to move on with them. All the white kids the richer kids and I knew that I was cheating myself out of my education I left that myself
But doing well wasn’t making me happy. Friends were lost working hard as hell.
Don’t do well in school but excel in one specific subject. School needs to be more geared towards opportunity making outside hobbies into specifically focused. More weight on band where they’re great at when English they’re struggling in.
Does their effort effect how they do. Do they think their learning. Are they cramming. Honors kids are just cramming and doing work but not learning. Some kids have too much work they don’t devote good time. Some of kids are great but the rest aren’t 6/36
Will reteach things if a big group doesn’t work hard but standards keep her from doing it
She doesent do it much but she wants to .. would like to do more, but doesent get enough time.
Shes open in the morning for help
Repeat offenders: gives rubric for every project self evaluation and peer edit
She’ll go over stuff who did a really great job and that did badly
Lots of discussion
She tries to find relevant essays and stories. Their passionate about cheep nation. Im a vegetarian, and how can they do that to the animals
Says its ugly on the days she chooses boring essays. Shes interested in trying to find their interests and working towards it
Says communicating is really good to find out whats up.
Parents have children 5 years before their in school huge responsibility to instill upon them values
Some children never said no to
Half of the child learns is by the time hes two
Totally empty slate to talk walk identify things relationship
Who to go to who to not to
Huge responsibility to instill upon the children
Eat right to develop good brain
Kids who eat junk food are doing the worst
Should learn school is important and responsibilities before they come to school
Parents are the first teachers
They teach tools for success and study habits and
Student interest
Obviously student will do better in subject he’s interested in because he’ll devote more time
That’s why they had rotation day
Writers and readers, squeek computer programming and music as well as art and stomp
Doable because of parents
Effort parents put into the education.. money to hire, resources
Key study habits to have
Organization their job they’ll give you the tools binder, folder every night right down homework check it off and always have it come back
They give the tool
Needs to be shown
They monitor the tools and figure out how to help them
They have signed off homework sheet
Signed every night homework
They know who to get on the student or parent
Parents responsible if they say they didn’t know they had homework.
It involves everybody
They buy them all for the kids each folder for separate subjects
Their way of letting parent know whats going on in class room and
Giving the tools and help make them get organized
You can use it and forget or it wont work or they’ll just not do anything
Don’t expect kids will automatically know
Wanting to please their parents it a big part.. fear
Expectations
Self-lead evaluations every semester instead of heres your grade
So its very much on the kid to talk about how he’s doing and reflect on it and then listen to feedback from the teacher.
All of this the parents hear and find out about