As policy is being made in Washington governing the future of testing in and funding for schools, little or nothing is being said there about bringing bright motivated young people into the field of teaching nor of trying to make good teachers of the people who do chose this path. ... Each of them loves kids. Each of them loves the material they studied. ... This ought to be the concern of policymakers on the Hill, not how much testing and what results should be mandated by the Federal gov't. ... If one loves kids and learning oneself, and if one has mastery or near-mastery of the content...

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Don't you love it when you can be as slow as you want when it comes to eating? ... The other reason that it would benefit the teachers would be because they can have their retake tests. ... Also, if there were longer lunches, students would be able to retake tests and also have enough time to eat their lunches without rushing. So by having more time to eat and retake tests, the students would be able to keep their grades up. ...

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Unlike the Spartans, the Athenians had a much greater embracement of love and beauty in the world, and applied it in their daily lives and teachings; this is also reflected in the many Greek writings and sculptors from Athens . ... If they failed the physical test, they would be doomed to middle class and lose all their rights. ... Like the girls, at the age of about eighteen to twenty, boys were required to pass a test. Unlike the test for girls, which only showcased fitness, the test for men was on fitness, leadership skills, and military excellence. If one failed these test, he would be...

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When we entered schools of higher levels, we occasionally complained about how much homework we had to do, and how many tests we had to take. We didn't notice that the more homework and tests teachers gave us, the more time and energies they sacrificed to correct our homework, and mark our tests. ... However, since the days I joined her class, my hatred of English unexpectedly vanished, and gave way to my fond love of English. ... Gradually, we found ourselves fall in love with English. ...

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For example, when I was a little girl I loved school. ... I loved my teacher, and I could not forget the last day with my favorite teacher. ... Even though I loved school, I did not felt like to go on school anymore. ... Every day she gave us a quiz or test. ...

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Miss Narwin's class can be considered boring because she never does anything different except for the "official" things such as reading, writing, test-taking, and discussions. In fact, a typical day in Miss Narwin's class can easily consist of just reading, testing, reading, and testing. ... Richard too, could not see that Mr Keating loved to teach; all he saw was a regular old man that can be used as a "scapegoat" to solve everyone's problem. ... But we must all keep in mind what Mother Theresa once said, "We can't do great things, only small things with great love"....

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Instead of just categorizing rocks as just sedimentary or metamorphic, I could also compare it to bricks for students that can relate to love building things. ... For example, if there was a lab testing how temperature affects volume and students finish this early; I would make sure to be prepared with another way to test changing volume or another activity. I would offer an optional challenge to them by maybe testing them to try to add more gas to the same container or now test how pressure can affect volume too. ...

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Instead of just categorizing rocks as just sedimentary or metamorphic, I could also compare it to bricks for students that can relate to love building things. ... For example, if there was a lab testing how temperature affects volume and students finish this early; I would make sure to be prepared with another way to test changing volume or another activity. I would offer an optional challenge to them by maybe testing them to try to add more gas to the same container or now test how pressure can affect volume too. ...

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To excel in things that we love doing to get greater things in life? ... I can compare this to my own experiences because I've always loved hands on work. I've never liked writing papers, taking tests, or doing classwork. ... They should love what they do. ... To teach what he or she love and to help every student that comes their way excel in what they want to do and actually push them. ...

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We must begin to show our young children that we care and love them because many times they may not be shown that affection at home. Education is not only about books and tests and classrooms. ... They are seen as numbers and tests scores and not individuals. ...

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The program also prepared the students for a standardize test that they must take at the completion of the program. After the first day in the program I immediately fell in love with the students. ... This program made me further realize that this is truly something that I would love. ...

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How many teachers would take you to your SAT test at six thirty in the morning, then after picking you up, take you out to eat? ... Another similarity between teachers and coaches is in order to excel to the top of their profession; they need to love their jobs. You know the ones who do; they are the teacher who have taught for thirty or more years, and the coach who the city loves. When a person truly loves their profession, they basically can do their job as long as their body allows them to do it. Also when a person loves their job, they have a strange ability to pass on their wisdom; when ...

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Theorist Albert Bandura states that, "If parental love is truly present that caring attitude will translate into concrete expressions of love at home, and will have a positive effect on the child's learning" (p. 752). ... There were five successful approaches and they included: (1) a program explicitly designed to teach comprehension skill, (2) teaching strategies that enable students to learn how to learn, (3) step-by-step instructions for teachers, (4) field tested and revised to suit school/district issues, and (5) motivates success for future learning. The idea was that suc...

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This bothered me because I think that teaching will be a great job, and will be something that I will love doing. I have a passion for science, and feel that I will love teaching it, while clearly she does not. ... It seems to me that if a teacher loves their job, it will show in the classroom because they will be able to excite the kids, and make learning interesting. ... A girl asked me if she could go to the bathroom, and I told her no, please sit down so that we can get started (it was apparent that she had to try to test my authority). ...

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Their is depraving of expression as if a teenager wants to show the rest of the world that he/she loves Jesus, then he or she might wear a T-shirt that states a positive view on the subject. ... A national study released in October of 1998 by Educational Testing Service found that there was no evidence to support claims that uniforms reduce discipline problems. ...

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In order for all this to happen though, School Teachers must have a passion for educating as well as love children. ... They must be willing to prepare bulletin boards, correct papers and tests, and keep records and reports of the student. ...

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"Work and How I Got There- Its 5 am, and I am sitting at my dining room table, studying never-ending notes on how Minoan art affects today's society, and why men who lived so long ago are important.   The fluorescent lights of my dorm room cast a dim light on my mountain of books, a harsh re...

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I was in classroom number 102 with Mr. Harry Gonzalez who taught Bilingual Kindergarten to nineteen students. The day I went to observe one student was absent. The classroom was pretty much split equally between boys and girls and all of the students were of Hispanic descent. Mr. ...

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Students must be tested on the basics of reading and math each year and those results posted, by their school, or on the Internet. ... The children of today, he says, "Must learn how to make a living and what to love. ... Teen pregency and violence is going down and that is part of the program called "True Love Waits". He thinks this is what the good children of the USA should or are, and he thinks to help the children in need of it or not they should get or deserve our love and encouragement. ...

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Reznicek, my junior year World Faiths professor, who first helped spark my love to learn, and helped me to grasp my interest in different cultures and different world views. ... We were never forced to memorize static information, and our intelligence was never quantified through our ability to "be filled" with the teachers knowledge through testing. ...

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