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My Teacher Statement

Education is the Key to Success and the students are the future role model. Students need someone to guide them throughout their education life. students need counseling, guidance, and inspiration. My mission as a teacher is to get back to the community what I have learned. I like to explore my knowledge in math and help students understand math problems. I will help my students any way i can help them to teach them. so, they will be educated and shere their knowledge to others.

Leson: Knowing Your States

Knowing Our State: New York
Grade 4

Introduction:
Knowing about the place we live is very important. We live in New York, so for the next few months we will be learning about this state. There are lots of symbols that can be found in New York. Do know any? Here is your chance to find out. I hope you have fun learning. Enjoy.

Task:
Students will find out more about the state of New York by researching the state symbols. Students will then use the information gathered to create a PowerPoint presentation to present in front of the class.

Process:

1.Select five (5) State Symbols of New York.
2.Find out as much information as you can about the symbols you have selected.
When was this symbol adopted?
Where is it found? Example: forest, kitchen, garden, river.
Is it useful? If yes, how can it be used?
3.Find pictures each of your symbols.
4.Create a PowerPoint Presentation using the information you have gathered.
The PowerPoint should have six (6) slides.
The first slide should have your name and an introduction about your presentation.
Each slide should have a picture of your symbol and facts about that symbol.
Be creative use as much color as possible.
You can also include any interesting thing you find about your symbols. Example: What is the size of the biggest apple? Or Who caught the biggest trout in New York?

Or A recipe for your symbol?
5.Everyone will present their PowerPoint presentation in front of the class.
6.Students will hand in a copy of their presentation.

Evaluation:
Information 40%
Pictures 20%
Creativeness 15%
Presentation 25%
Total: 100 Your Score:

Resources:
http://www.iloveny.com/kids/did_you_know.asp
http://www.dos.state.ny.us/kidsroom/nysfacts/factmenu.html

http://www.classbrain.com/artstate/publish/New_state_beverage_fruit_muffin.shtml

Conclusion:

Hope you enjoy doing this presentation and learning about New York State symbols. After the Presentation we will have a field trip to visit the Children museum of Manhattan to have a fun. Here is the website for the Museum you can visit it to find out more information before we go on the field trip.
http://www.cmom.org/

Lesson: History

History of the Local Community

Introduction:
In America the history of the "West" has always intrigued people of all ages. The "West" has been depicted in countless movies and books. But if people actually study the "West" and its past history, they discover there were many reasons besides land for bringing people to what is today the Central Plains, and as many reasons as there are people for them staying.
The Central Plains has developed into an area with economic activities and problems distinct only to it. Yet the area has much in common with other parts of the U.S. By studying the history, economy and government of a local community a person can learn much about a whole area.

Goal:
The purpose of this activity package is to provide students with activities which will familiarize them with the local area they live in and develop an awareness of how their local community has been influenced by history. The activities also help them become aware of how the local community influences their lives today.
Objectives: Students will be able to:
Identify and list the founding fathers of your city, and describe at least one contribution of each to the local community.
Identify at least five people who influenced the development of your city and county.
Identify at least five economic activities that have contributed to the growth of your city, county, and state, both past and present, and give examples how at least two have changed the area.

Materials: Resources available in local community.

Procedure:
Using materials from the local library and historical society, the students do research and write reports about how the founding fathers established your city.
Arrange a field trip to the county historical museum to see pictures and artifacts surrounding the early history of the area. The curator for the museum can give students individual help on projects and inform the group about historical information.
Interview local citizens who have lived in your city for a long period of time.
Using information from the Historical Society and Chamber of Commerce, students do reports or posters about famous people who have influenced the growth of your city and county.

Conclusion:
Studying your local area gives students a different view of history.

Resume

Abul khair
76-09 OLD SOUTH ROAD
OZONE PARK, N.Y. 11417
(917) 238-3213
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OBJECTIVE: To Obtain a Position as a part-time Group Leader.

WORK EXPERIENCE:
Afro-American Educational Center, Jamaica, NY 2007- 2007
Teacher
•Taught kindergarten class
•Implemented Phonics instruction with small group
•Taught numbers and letters to kindergarten students
Home Tutor, Ozone Park, N.Y. 2005- 2007
•Assisted first to fifth grade students with homework
•Teach students new ways of solving math problems

Papa’s Fried Chicken & Pizza, Brooklyn, N.Y. 2003- 2007
Supervisor
•Balanced weekly budget and make appropriate bank deposit for small business
•Order supplies from vendors
•Prepare work schedule for employees
•Track employee attendance for payroll purposes
•Hired and supervised employees

EDUCATION:

York College of the City University of New York 2003-Present
Bachelor of Science in elementary math education

ACHIEVEMENTS:

•Perfect attendance award at Richmond Hill high school
•Senior award in English at Richmond Hill high school
•CPR certificate
•First day training certificate
•Lifeguard training certificate

EXTRA- CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:
•York College Student Government Executive Director.
•Member of the selection committee for Vice President at York College
•Soccer at Richmond Hill high school
•Key club, community service at Richmond Hill high school
•Math tutor

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Fluent in Bengali, Urdu, Hindi, and English

COMPUTER SKILLS: Microsoft Windows XP, Power Point, Excel, Mathematic 5.

REFERENCE: Available upon request.

Philosophy of Education

My Philosophy of Education

Education is considered as the light, a guide to human perfection. Education sometimes also called as the backbone of a person or a nation, and it is the most effective criterion to measure a personality of an individual or the standard of a culture. One of the earliest philosophers, Socrates compared knowledge or education with virtue as “Now, if there be any sort of good which is distinct from knowledge, virtue may be that good; but if knowledge embraces all good, than we shall be right in thinking that virtue is knowledge?” (p.51). There are some people who value education than other things. Yet most people in the world undoubtedly agree with the tremendous value of education. When people become educated and wish to educate others, they develop their own philosophy of education. I have my own philosophy of education that I gradually accumulated through my personal educational experiences as well as learning several educational philosophies of the great philosophers.
My first and foremost educational philosophy is getting inspiration from the nature and applying it in the arena of the educational institute. In this connection, Francis Bacon (1620) mentioned, “Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything” (p.65). This quote clearly describes one of my notions of educational philosophy which is learning from the nature. From the very beginning of my childhood, I started to ask myself to explore the causes of the things happening around me. For instance, I would like to know the reason why water evaporates in the sun or it turns into ice during the winter. Maybe one can argue that only observation will not answer the question regarding the conditions of water I just have mentioned. However, my response to this disagreement will be that if a person is not inspired in the nature in a great deal, he or she will be less likely to have better knowledge. Newton (1686) elaborated this idea better than any other as he stated, “ I consider philosophy rather than arts, and write not concerning manual but natural powers, and consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive” (p.74). Therefore, it is very evident that people should observe the nature very minutely and get inspiration of knowledge from it.
Being active is another key to education. In my words, the notion of my educational philosophy is that practice makes a man perfect. This notion elaborates a great debate concerning the inborn ability of a person. Some people think that people are solely outcome of their ancestors, the replica or reflection of their genes. People who believe this notion also think that human fate is controlled by the divine power that is human being can know only what it is assigned for. However, my educational philosophy assures that people if they practice adequately, they can learn a great deal of knowledge. In other words the doors of education are open to all, and people who want education and practice or become active. I have an experience that clearly describes this notion. When I graduated from high school, I was not quite sure whether I would continue my study in college. My inactiveness or passivity affected the grades of my first semester. During the second semester, I become very active; I practiced or did hard work as much as possible. I earned excellent grades in all courses I took in that semester. Since activeness has become a self-experienced notion of my own life, I become a preacher of this notion, and I definitely want to apply this notion in my educating career.
Training in childhood is very essential to education, and I firmly agree with this educational philosophy. Relating to childhood training, Rousseau (1761) mentioned, “the earliest and most important education is precisely that which is universally neglected; it is to put a child in a position to be educated” (p.84). Rousseau supported the idea of childhood training by saying that during childhood, children acquire a certain level of physical development that initiates reasoning, and “Children are always in motion; quiet and meditation are their aversion; a studious and sedentary life is injurious to their health and growth; neither their minds nor their bodies can bear constraint” (p.84). As children are generally restless in the delicate period of their childhood, the training for education is very hard to put in yet it is very effective. I have an experience that clearly intercepts with the necessity of the childhood training as an educational philosophy. During my childhood, I engaged many debates with my teachers and parents as to learn more and more. My debates though at first seemed workless in the beginning worked out greatly in the later stage of my life. I developed a nice skilled of debate or conversation during my childhood. Though some people rebuked me as talkative in my childhood, later most of them accepted me as a skilled speaker. That’s why, I firmly agree with the idea of Rousseau that the earliest and most important education is to put a child in a position to be educated.
Conclusively I would like to say that my own philosophy of education that I gradually accumulated through my personal educational experiences as well as learning several educational philosophies of the great philosophers. This philosophy of education is based on the notions of learning from nature, childhood training and being active for education.