25. What are the most important things you learned in this class?

I would say that the biggest thing that i learned from this class was how to cite sources properly and what to look for when citing them. This is the first class that i actually used a book to refer to once in a while with regards to citations and works cited.

24. What do you think might have been done differently in this class to have helped you better?

I feel that time management was an issue for me with this class. I knew that once i started writing my paper i would pretty much write its self. The hardest part that i found with it was researching and reading my sources. I feel that if you would have required students to write portions or more annotated bibs throughout the semester, it would have made it a little easier to stay on task.

23. Has blogging been helpful for you in this research project? In what way might blogging be better used for future classes?

I feel that blogging is a very good form of providing classroom community, especially in a virtual sense. In English 102, i believe that there was only one day in class that we were really asked for our opinions to try and help each other out with our research topics and proposals. If time does not allow in class, i think that blogging is a different approach to create this. Will i use it in my classroom someday....? Possibly..... depending on the course and topic. I do however feel that blogging is better used if all student need to comment on one central topic instead of everyone just commenting on their own blog. That way you are forced to see each others views instead of seeking them out.

22. Reflection after your final research paper submitted—how did you think you did, are you glad you chose that topic? etc.

I enjoyed my research paper primarily because writing about teaching motivates me to finish and become one. I feel that in order to be good at something in life you need to be passionate about it. Choosing a subject and researching it will not only allow me to be well informed about what not to do in a classroom, but will also aid me in assisting others when they become frustrated in a co-teaching situation. Teachers need to keep in mind that the students education is the top priority. Utilizing resources to provide the quality education is key.

21. Alternative titles for your research paper—the good, the bad, and the ugly (at least have 3, but they can all be good, prefereably)

Co-teaching - get great or get out!
What is Co-teaching and what do teachers think it should be?
New teaching methods of the 21 century
Including student with special needs into regular classrooms has changed the way teaching has been done for year.

20. Your revising plans, what tips helped most

I think that having a well organized outline helped me the most with writing my paper. I found that i had a clear vision as to how my paper was going to flow and i felt that as i read different sources, i would just jot down ideas on the side and then just plugged them into my outline. At times i also found that some of the material i was going to comment on i ended up pulling out because it was not going to contribute to the paper significantly.

19. Places visited online to help address grammar issues

I have honestly not even attempted to visit any online websites besides the ones that we were asked to go to in class. I am sure that as i pursue my masters i will write more and will keep it in mind to use them though.

18. List of your own worst grammar issues

Some of my worst grammar issues is that i use the same descriptive words over and over again. I know that i should use more descriptive words and i even search for some, but you would think that after a while my vocabulary would just increase and i would use them more naturally.

17. Outline (rough, topic, or sentence)

Thesis: With increased numbers of learning support students within regular content classrooms, many school districts required teachers to implement co-teaching throughout the schools. Co-teaching is an effective practice which utilized correctly in the classroom

Discuss reason why the idea of co-teaching was introduced
IDEA
NCLB
Number of learning support students that were in regular classes
Learning support teachers specializing in Math, language arts, science
Discuss effective teaching techniques.
Positive outcomes of co-teaching.
Student views on co-teaching and student inclusion.
Barriers that may limit their ability to co-teach effectively
Inadequate training
Limited resources,
Scheduling issues
Lack of joint planning time
Differences in teaching philosophies and or personalities
Lack of administrative support, and unclear roles of co-teachers
Differences between different subjects and the way they co teach
Differences in Co-teaching in the secondary level
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Evaluation of Co-Teaching in Three High Schools Within One School District: How Do You Know When You Are TRULY Co-Teaching?."

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Thoughts and feelings from the Special education teachers
Thoughts and feelings from the regular classroom teacher.
Ways to improve Co-teaching
- Co-teachers as peer coaches with regards to teaching techniques.
§ Source - Providing Immediate Feedback to Co Teachers Through
□ BIE
□ Immediate feedback from fellow teachers.
- Secure common planning time
§ Time must be efficient and use their time efficiently and in order of how they will be teaching the lesson
§ Co-teachers should always have an agenda for their planning sessions
§ Should have specific task prior to and after their meetings
§ General Education teacher suggested roles
□ Focus on mapping out the curriclum content that needed to be covered during the next week
§ Special education teacher suggested roles
□ Should be consistently checking the lessons to anticipate which students may have problems grasping
§ General Ed and Special Education teacher need to decide how they want to teach the lesson using models. Multiple co-teaching models can even be utilized in one lesson.
□ Examples
® Warm up/bell ringer utilizing on teach/one assist
◊ General education teacher could be taking role as special education teacher roams to room to assist.
® Migrate towards parallel teaching where you split up the class in to two heterogeneious groups and discuss the overaching theam of the a novel that you are reading. (With a better teacher to student ratio and a smaller group, students feel more comfortable to share and also ask for assistance more freely)
® Once objectives have been accomplished in smaller groups, bring the class back together utilizing a team teaching model.
® It is important that both teachers roles vary through out a lesson and that students with additional needs be addressed by both the Content teacher and the special education teacher.
® It is important for both the teachers to address how they will assess the students and also address which students that need additional help and how they both think is best to accomplish this, whether this be alternative teaching style or additional instruction.
® It is important for co-teachers to review their teaching styles with one another in a constructive way regarding their working relationship. If there are underlying problems that need to be addressed, it is only fair to bring them up.
- Alternatives to Co-teaching - student collaboration, benefits and drawbacks
Differential Effects of Peer Tutoring in Co-Taught and Non-Co-Taught Classes: Results for Content Learning and Student-Teacher Interactions

Thesis statement of your paper

Co-teaching a classroom properly with structured activities and a cohesive co-teaching relationship has limitless benefits for students and teachers; forcing teachers to work together without the proper training and background often only causes confusion for the students.

Rough draft woes

I found that the hardest part of writing my rough draft was organizing the outline of the paper and just starting the paper. I am not a firm believer that you need a thesis to start your paper, but as you write it you may want to make a few attempts at writing it.

Excercise 15.2

Statement #1 and #5 change the meaning of the paragraph while #2,3,4 do not.

Statistics

What do you know about statistics? Have you ever taken a stats course, and if so, did you do okay in it? If not, you should still answer this last part. I'm going to have a list of statistical terms, symbols, or letters, and I want you to identify which ones, if any, that you know what they mean:

I have never had a statistics course but i will be taking one this summer. The only word that sticks out to me is the following below

correlation - being able to establish a relationship

Exercise 15.1

This picture illustrates a co-teaching method; one teach, one assist.

"My Progress So Far with My Paper"

So far with my paper i have completed my annotated bibliography and have also been working on my outline for my paper. I started my outline after i found 3 sources and have been modifying it as i read more of my sources. I am excited to start my paper because i feel that Co-teaching is a very important aspect of teaching especially with all the inclusive classrooms in today's schools. I am now at that point where i just need to start to write the paper though. Starting is the hardest part for me, but i feel that once i have a paragraph or two, my outline will easily write the rest of the paper.

The only trouble that i ran into with my paper is that i switched topics. I am currently taking SPED 210 and was required to observe inclusive/special education classrooms this semester for a total of 20 hours. Only having a little prior knowledge of what co-teaching was before going into the classroom, it was easy for me to identify what was not working properly. The issues that i faced was that, i desired to know how to correct the situation. By utilizing this assignment properly, it has allowed me to expand my knowledge about proper co-teaching techniques and most importantly, ways to establish a cohesive co-teaching relationship with your co-teacher.

I still find clean burning diesel technology very interesting, but i feel that the benefits of understanding what co-teaching is and how to use it effectively in the classroom can benefit me the rest of my teaching career.

Levine Article

Electronic Media Use, Reading, and Academic Distractibility in College Youth

This article written by Laura Levine and her fellow colleagues discusses the impact of Electronic media on today's students work and study habits. It provides several statistics to establish a average usage and also discusses the variety of learning styles of today's students. This article was interesting and should cause teacher to reflect on their teaching style to see if they are reaching their students or if they could benefit from differentiating their teaching style. Students minds need to be stimulated in a variety of ways to ensure comprehension of the material.

LEVINE, LAURA , BRADLEY WAITE, and LAURA BOWMAN. "Electronic Media Use, Reading, and Academic Distractibility in College Youth." CyberPsychology & Behavior 10 (2007): 8. Print.

LEVINE, L., WAITE, B., & BOWMAN, L. (2007). Electronic Media Use, Reading, and Academic Distractibility in College Youth. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 10, 8.

Article Annotation

Jon Dillaman

English 102

10/5/2011

Sect 008

Article Summary

In the article “Collaboration through Co-teaching,” by Nicole Fenty and Kimberly McDuffie-Landrum, they discuss different techniques of co-teaching and how to create cohesive co-teaching environment in the classroom. They discuss different roles of the teachers and the importance of their individual roles but that they need to share their classroom, but maintain control at the same time. They stated that most teachers that co-teach feel lost and are always cautious to not overstep their roles in the classroom. The teachers feel this way mainly because of lack of training on how to co-teach. Many teachers have taught for several years by themselves and find it extremely difficult to share teaching responsibilities with someone, in most cases, that they barely know. Additionally they address common reason why teachers have difficulties co-teaching from both perspectives, and offer techniques to alleviate confusion in the classroom. This article was very interesting because it offered a step by step process to set up your co-teaching experience for success. I will use this in my paper because it offers several different perspectives and various examples of failing circumstances without proper training.

Fenty, Nicole Scarlett, and Kimberly McDuffie-Landrum. "Collaboration through Co-teaching." Kentucky English Bulletin 60.2 (2011): 21-26. Web. 29 Sept. 2011.

3 P's

Plagiarism - the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work, as by not crediting the author

Patch Writing - A style of writing that uses sections of verbatim copied text often from a variety of sources, linked together with additional sentences.

Paraphrasing - A restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words, often to clarify meaning.

Exercise 4.1

Keywords and Keyword Combinations I am Using to Search

Clean burning diesel	Diesel hybrid	Diesel fuel manufacturing process
Diesel engine environmental issues	Human body digesting Diesel exhaust fumes	Clean burning diesel education efforts
Diesel vs. gasoline mpg comparison	Emissions

Hypothesis

The US has many benefits from encouraging the car owners to own and drive clean burning diesel vehicles.

Research Questions

What is the comparison of diesel vs. gasoline burning automobiles driven in different countries?

What effect do clean burning diesel motors have on the environment?

Why do car manufactures offer clean burning diesel engines in different countries besides the United States?

Have car manufactures researched the effectiveness of a clean burning diesel hybrid and its efficiency?

Why has the cost of diesel increased drastically over the past ten years compared to gasoline?

Source Variety

Jon Dillaman

English 102

Writing and Research Sect 008

9/27/2011

Reference Work

Kreith, Frank, and D. Yogi Goswami. Handbook of energy efficiency and renewable energy. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2007. Print.

Scholarly Articles

Kaho, Todd. "CLEAN DIESEL: A NEW ERA OF GREEN CARS." Mother Earth News 238 (2010):

38-43. Web. 20 Sept. 2011.

Newspaper/Magazine articles

Healey, James . "GM confirms diesel Cruze for U.S.; 'It is great,' CEO Akerson says; may hit mid-40s mpg." usa today [nyc] 22 July 2011: Pg. 1B. Print.

Pamphlet or Gov't Pub

Norbye, Jan P.. Modern diesel cars. Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania: Tab Books, 1978. Print.

Multimedia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7cDJbltRMM

"Grab n Snatch"

· CLEAN DIESEL: A NEW ERA OF GREEN CARS.Full Text Available By: Kaho, Todd. Mother Earth News, Feb/Mar2010, Issue 238, p38-43, 5p Subjects: DIESEL motor; ENGINES; MOTOR vehicles; DIESEL fuels; GASOLINE; Other Engine Equipment Manufacturing; Motor Vehicle Supplies and New Parts Merchant Wholesalers`

Kaho, Todd. "CLEAN DIESEL: A NEW ERA OF GREEN CARS." Mother Earth News 238 (2010):
38-43. Web. 20 Sept. 2011.

Jon Dillaman

English 102

Exercise 4.1

9/20/11

Research Question

What is the comparison of diesel vs. gasoline burning automobiles driven in different countries and what effect has it had on its environment?

Why do car manufactures offer clean burning diesel engines in different countries besides the United States?

Have car manufactures researched the effectiveness of a clean burning diesel hybrid and its efficiency?

Who mandates how efficient cars are and why do we not have stricter regulations?

Why has the cost of diesel at the pump, risen higher than the cost of gasoline when it requires less refining?

Keywords and Keyword Combinations I am Using to Search

Clean burning diesel	Diesel hybrid	Diesel fuel manufacturing process
Diesel engine environmental issues	Human body digesting Diesel exhaust fumes	Clean burning diesel education efforts
Diesel vs. gasoline mpg comparison

Hypothesis

The United States would benefit from requiring US car manufactures to produce automobiles with clean burning diesels.