Teacher Dennis Roeder May Employ Modality Teaching Strategies

An Australian native, Dennis Roeder is keenly aware of the difference electronic technology and Internet access makes to remote Australian students, and in the course of his career hopes to see charities like One Laptop per Child and the OLPC Foundation from MIT Media Lab accomplish their goal of giving Internet educational material access to all disadvantaged children. 

Australian authorities may also investigate the possibilities of satellites like that of India, which has launched its communications satellite EDUSAT, able to provide educational material access to a much greater percentage of its nation’s population at reduced cost.

Dennis Roeder’s teaching career in Australia will likely strive to keep teacher/student ratios small, as studies have shown that primary students who attend small classes for at least 3 years are more likely to make it to their high school graduation. 

Roeder is passionate about the importance of the early years of schooling, when basic interpersonal communication and literacy skills are the focus. 

Roeder hopes to see each of his primary students develop their own unique potential and develop into their personal best. Roeder hopes to overcome the tendency toward criticism and blame during the struggles of the educational process, and to see these replaced with a gratitude for the efforts extended and a renewed determination to continue the learning challenge. 

Dennis Roeder may use, among other teaching strategies, the theory of modalities of instruction, that individuals have preferred avenues of learning. The primary modalities are by observation, or sight, by listening or auditory, or through tactile experience, actually participating in the activity of creating or achieving.

Dennis Roeder Attends the University of Sydney

Dennis Roeder of New South Wales, Australia stands poised at the threshold of his life. This 22-year-old graduate of the University of Sydney has earned his Bachelor of Education degree to go along with his passion for working with young students, and eagerly looks forward to a successful career as a primary school teacher. 

Roeder’s alma mater University of Sydney, known as USyd, Australia’s earliest university, is considered today to be a leading institution of learning in the country, with 16 schools of learning offering bachelors, masters and doctoral certifications. 

A very large institution, USyd had over 32,000 undergraduate and over 16,000 graduate students in 2011.  The University of Sydney has the singular distinction of being ranked in the top 10 of the world’s most beautiful universities by both the British Daily Telegraph and the Huffington Post.

The University of Sydney boasts five Nobel Laureates from its lists of graduates and faculty, as well as six prime ministers and 24 justices of the High Court of Australia.  24 Rhodes Scholars have arisen from the students of the University of Sydney, a source of inspiration for undergraduate

Dennis Roeder during his time there from 2012 to 2015, when he earned his Bachelors of Education degree.  The University of Sydney retains memberships in the Group of Eight, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), the Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning, the Australia-Africa Universities Network (AAUN), the Academic Consortium 21, the Association of Commonwealth Universities and the Worldwide Universities Network. 

Dennis Roeder Joins the Ancient Profession of Teaching

New teacher Dennis Roeder is sure he can approach mathematics instruction for primary students with an emphasis on the fun side of learning, creating a fascination in his students for this rewarding subject.  In the process of facilitating learning and inculcating knowledge and skills which he wants to last a lifetime, Roeder may use a variety of teaching methods which encompass storytelling, discussion, training and research. Ultimately, Roeder’s goal will be to help learners educate themselves, in any setting, be it formal or informal.  

Roeder’s pedagogy of teaching aspires to use a variety of creative approaches to help his young learners thirst for knowledge.  Roeder concerns himself with the stage of education which takes place in primary school, but prior to his students’ primary education, most will have been enrolled in kindergarten, and afterwards, they will go on to secondary school and then, possibly, college or university.

 

The United Nations’ 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has recognized a universal right to education, which is also acknowledged in the compulsory education of most developed countries.  

Dennis Roeder will take part in that compulsory education in Australia as a primary school teacher in that country, and by entering the profession joins teachers going back to ancient times.  Teaching from adults to the young began in prehistoric times, as the essential skills for survival were passed on in human society.  

Before literacy between peoples, oral and imitation methods were used to teach.  The advent of language gave rise to storytelling, which passed on knowledge, societal values and essential skills to the next generation.  Formal education arose from the need of cultures to gain knowledge beyond simple skills, such as the schools which arose in Egypt thousands of years before the birth of Christ.  Mosaics in Pompeii depict Plato’s teaching academy, while Nalanda existed in India from the 7th century BC to 1200AD, a Buddhist monastery for higher learning. 

As a primary school teacher today in Australia, Dennis Roeder joins teachers going back to ancient times.  Plato’s Academy in Athens, Greece was the first institution of learning in Europe in ancient times, while Egypt’s Alexandria succeeded Athens in 330BC with the Library of Alexandria.  The fall of Rome in 476AD saw learning collapse in European civilization, but teaching continued in China where it had begun with Confucius in 551BC, an ancient philosopher whose influence was felt in China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam.  

Confucius’ Analects continue to influence education to this day.  The Catholic Church preserved literacy and learning in Europe after the collapse of Rome through cathedral schools.  These eventually evolved into universities which were the forerunners of modern universities today, such as the University of Bologne, which is the oldest continually operating university in the world, founded in 1088.