My life in Quotes

 Hi, my name is Joshua Harke and I’m from Syracuse, NY. I’ve lived in Charlotte since I was 13 years old. In the summer of 1994, we moved to Charlotte, NC. It was a huge culture shock and life change for a new teenager. I went to a few different schools here; I went to Randolph Middle School for 7 th grade and I was bullied there so my parents moved me the next school year to Bible Baptist Christian Academy in Matthews. I liked it there and played soccer in middle school. I also attended church there with my family. I transferred schools after my junior year to United Faith Christian Academy. I loved it there and grew into a great high school athlete. I played in the praise band and played soccer, baseball was even the mascot, and outside of school, I played ice hockey on a local team and for the Junior, Checkers travel team. I made Who’s Who Among Highschool Americans my senior year. I also couldn’t decide what I wanted to be as an adult and that’s fine. I had an internship in a ...

  3100 Final Exam Joshua Harke How do you support students considering student mental health needs and the existence of bullying?                I would support my students by having classroom activities that don’t single out students with mental health needs or that are being bullied. I like my clinical educator’s questions when they were talking about bullying awareness week. How many of you have been bullied or know someone who has been bullied? I like that she showed videos from YouTube, in homeroom, on bullying and how to be an advocate for others. I would get my guides from the Pacer website for antibullying. I believe strongly that the best advocates for students being bullied are their peers. I want to nip any early signs of bullying in the butt because I don’t want my students to develop trauma and I want a healthy classroom vibe.            ...

  Joshua Harke’s Teaching Philosophy Introduction In 2019, I decided to go back to Central Piedmont Community College to get a transfer degree so I could return to UNC Charlotte as a pre-teaching student. I chose teaching because my marketing associate degree wasn’t cutting it as a career. I want to be a teacher because I want to give back to the community and be an advocate for the voiceless. I decided that I would like to become a teacher, in high school. I wanted to be a history teacher or a physical therapist and those are very different professions. I was a teacher aid for the PE teacher for 2 nd and 3 rd graders and 7 th and 8 th graders. I was a natural with the elementary kids. My family has an abundance of teachers in the lines of the Harke’s and Hughson’s. My mom was a teacher/administrator of a preschool up in Syracuse, New York called Little Lamb. She would read Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Suess, and they would serve green eggs and ham to the kids that day. I wa...

 This is a discussion that I posted in my Sociology of Education class here at UNCC and the dialogue following. 1. I think that today in the climate of education being a minority can have its advantages for education. I feel that being a mixed male special education teaching student might afford me a better chance to obtain job placement when I graduate and being that there are fewer males in elementary teaching roles now. That's my intersectionality. I believe that the demand for minority teachers is good for me but they shouldn't place a male in a teaching role if they're not qualified same as a woman, it just so happens that it's a role that is needed to be filled in society. 2. Attention should most certainly be given to economic segregation. It should be addressed but as the problem that whites have been afforded a head start in the game. It's like a video I just watched in Child Psych. If we as a society could get over living in white-walled neighborhoods wher...

  R&D - Mod4: How We Study Development   You read in a parenting magazine that hearing the music of Mozart might enhance young children's cognitive abilities and improve performance on intelligence tests (often termed "The Mozart Effect"). How could you design a study to investigate the credibility of this claim? As you describe your study, be sure to specify the following: 1.      The research design - experimental or correlational? If experimental, remember to state the IVs and DVs. This research is correlational and experimental, the testing is needed to draw conclusions and is the DV. The children all being 6 years old are the IV. 2. The methodology (How old will your participants be? What will participants do?  What data will you collect and how?) My participants would be 6 years old so that the children are all on the same playing field in the control. I will have them split into two classes and they will study for an hour listening...

  Joshua Harke       EDUC 2100 – 081              Chapter 1 Reflections      September 19, 2020   Reflection Questions #1 What areas ranked high for you on the survey? Explain why you think you scored this way. 1.      I loved being a teacher aid in high school with the little kids and occasionally the middle school kids. I scored it a 4, it impacted me to want to entertain being a teacher. 2.      At least one of my family members is a teacher, my mother was an administrator in a couple of pre k – daycare schools and was a teacher. My cousin, Mark is a teacher in NY. 3.      Doing the same thing in the same way repeatedly doesn’t appeal to me, I scored 4 on this because I love stability of going to work but doing the same thing every day in the job is monotonous. Being a special education teacher would...

  Joshua Harke     Educ 2100 – 081              How I See Myself Assignment     11.07.2020 Draft 1   What are some things that you will include in the 3 sections of your assignment? Take into consideration the assignments and other experiences that we have had so far in this class. You may bullet or list your thoughts for each section. Be sure to list the assignment or experience from this class that has triggered your new thinking.   I.       As Learner-what did you learn about yourself and what you need to be a successful lifelong learner and student. I have learned over the years that I am not a good student when I am beyond stressed out. I need to be focused on the goal as I have just exercised by leaving GoHealth. I took a seasonal job with Target that I thought would be fewer hours out the gate but they didn’t listen to one thing about needi...

IEP Interview with Miss T 12/4/2020 Aaron had a pretty good consistency. It was overwhelming in the beginning. He was interested in science and if it wasn’t relevant, he didn’t want to do it. Aaron’s IEP was as open as possible. The team communicated very well together. Some of his teachers had some unreasonable expectations. IEP meetings were ridiculous because they are meetings with people who haven’t met her child. Overall IEP’s were a breeze when dealt with therapists, they were things he could achieve. Aaron’s team was a really good team, they pushed him with challenges and they were kind. They had an EOG, where he was supposed to read the question and answer the question. There was no flexibility. She said that the instructor wouldn’t be flexible because of the rules. Tina after that had EOG’s removed from having to take the EOG. The test wasn’t designed for special needs children. He couldn’t read and it didn’t make sense to take them.   IEP’s with Miss A ...

I wrote a post that was inappropriate for Linkedin, I listened to a few friends who told me to take it down but I left it here on blogger because it's something that I wrote. For the good, bad or uncharacteristic of myself, I kept it. I wrote asking for advice, help but it was very sporadic and all over the place in thought. I've been dealing with a lot. Trying to figure out memories and why I have so few of them and my short term memory loss. I also am dealing with work stress. I hate my industry, I work really hard to have so little because I want to have a job but I'm just working paycheck to paycheck to pay bills. I just recently in December buried the ashes of my Mom. It was rough but the positive thing is I was on Latuda and it's been wonderful, my thoughts were clear and I was genuinely able to appreciate my friends that came out to support me. I have great news from that entry that I wrote, I'm back in school. I prayed and did a lot of work. I talked to ...

Things I think about: Turtles, they hide in their shells when frightened. Is it true? I'll have to look it up on the internet. If it's on the internet does it make it true, only if it's from a credible source? What makes that source credible? Hmmm... ... I wish I had chosen history as my degree instead of marketing then I could have pretended to teach those who in reality would be teaching me but should I give credit to Roger for that? If I were to get scared while teaching I could just put my head in my desk and have a web cam in my desk so the kids could see me and continue to teach... lol! If I were a bubble boy turned into a man in bubble would I have to have disability accommodations for stupidity? If I were a bubble man I would have a van with the front seats taken out and a curved ramp that would pull out so I could park and roll out of the van when I get to my destination. If I were a teacher in a bubble... -April 26th, 2016 I love school... wait f...