K-W-L (What I Know, What I Want to Know, and What I Learned) is a teaching strategy developed by Donna Ogle (1986) used to encourage reading by first activating students" prior knowledge, then developing questions of interest to focus attention during reading, and finally reflecting on what was learned. ... The following procedure can be used to teach K-W-L to your students 1. ... How would you determine if students understood the use of the strategy? The best way to check for understanding would be open discussion with your students. ... Have students check to see if all of their ques...

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The reason I chose to do well in school was due to the teachers that pushed me and encouraged me to do well. ... Students must become intrinsically motivated. ... The teacher knows and understands students and wants the student to succeed by developing their own abilities. ... A teacher must try to be considered not as a friend like the peers of the student, but as a friend who the students look to for advice, guidance, and support. When a teacher gains this relationship with students the students will be motivated by the teacher to learn any subject, and discipline is never an issue. ...

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How to teach strategies in the classroom: 1) Teach strategies through interactive techniques - to lower inhibition, you can play guessing and communication games, do group work, laugh with your students - to encourage risk- taking, praise students for trying out language - to build students self confidence, tell them that you believe in them - to promote cooperative learning, play down competition among students 2) Use compensatory techniques Several dozen techniques can be "prescribed- to help students to overcome problems...

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As a professor she has a major impact on her students. ... Not only did Nancy teach her students in the classroom but also taught them just by being herself. ... She shows that she won't give up and this helps encourage others to pursue on in troubled times. ... Her standards were high for her students and her authority was whole. ... Children are vulnerable and impressionable and to scare them into thinking they are bad is no way to encourage them to learn more. ...

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During my years in school I was always competing with other students to be the best and the brightest, and it was a lot of work that I sometimes didn't want to do. ... In an insert from Benjamin Franklin's autobiography he talks about how he would read books on writing, and edit his own writings, and he said, "I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious." ... My awareness comes from what I learn in my classes and read about current eve...

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Here I was thirty something years young and my entire life totally got turned upside down in the blink of an eye. Everything that I knew to be certain was gone. I had worked faithfully for Allen Printing Company for almost 10 years and suddenly the company was gone. I had stared out working part tim...

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