Learning Environment

The success of students in their academic process largely depends on the degree to which the learners are engaged. Engagement, on its part, is triggered by the teacher's ability to align his or her teaching strategies, skills, and motivation with the classroom environment. In this paper, two teachers reflected in the videos "Bad Teacher" and "Freedom Writers" are compared. The basis for the comparison includes the visible instructional and motivational strategies and the learning environment. The study takes the standpoint that a good teacher is the one that adopts developmentally appropriate efforts to promote the learners' educational success and well-being. First teacher
Description of the teacher
In Bad Teacher, the teacher has an intimidating attitude. After she enters the classroom, the teacher does not show any desire to greet the children. She throws her handbag on the table threateningly. When one of her students comes over to the teacher to present the cookies, she looks at the young girl menacingly. Rather than thanking the girl for the cookies, the teacher shuns her off and to make the matters worse, she talks ill of them. Also, the teacher is not motivated to teach. She tells the students to turn the television on, puts her coat over the head, and then sleeps on the desk.
Instructional strategies of the teacher
The instructional strategy that the teacher is exercising as depicted in the video is simply reverse positive education. According to Ramachandram (2016, p. 848), positive education entails dovetailing evidence-based positive psychology strategies with the best-practice teaching approaches. In stark contrast with this notion, the teacher in the video uses non-conventional and seemingly detrimental teaching strategies, which the current research do not support. The

The Wechsler Memory Scales

The first manifestation of the Wechsler memory scale was in the year 1945. The provision of rapid, simple, and practical memory examinations was the initial intentions of the Wechsler memory scale (Hidese et al., 2019). The Wechsler memory scale is designed to enable one to have a better understanding of the various components in a patientâ€™s memory since it is administered individually. Moreover, the Wechsler memory scale is considered as the best test when assessing a patientâ€™s memory. In fact, it was ranked as the best and the top used test by clinical psychologists (Piotrowski, 2017). The Wechsler memory scale is a comprehensive and in-depth memory assessment tool that was designed for adults and adolescents. Again, this test can examine the visuospatial and verbal aspects of the memory system.
The Wechsler memory scale is commonly used since it is easily obtained and its batteries are commercially available. Again, the scale permits comparisons in findings and the standardization of norms for long periods to allow fast interpretation of data (Grant, & Dennis, 2017). Moreover, the scale offers a range of test scores that provide data patterns and other profile analysis. Finally, the scale is regarded as a measure of learning since its many memory

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