Good morning!
This week, I start my student teaching and I have to say, I am nervous. Perhaps it is because I have not been in a classroom all summer, or maybe because after this I will be a full on teacher with 20-30 kid's learning in my hands. Maybe it is both.
Either way, I am going to do it, and I am going to do it well.
I went through my student teaching packet thoroughly today. I wrote down all of the expectations that I need to meet as well as when I need to get things done. Thank goodness the University is so organized!
I expect this meeting with my cooperating teacher to go well. From the e-mails we have exchanged she seems like a wonderful person, and hopefully one that will help me to grow and become better. We will discuss where I will teach my lessons, and plan some together. I am very excited for the cooperative teaching that is required by the University. I think that it will help me to be better at self-evaluation.
I have been looking up things on Pinterest to help me with my student teaching. So far one of the most helpful articles I have found was 8 Things I Wish I Knew as a Student Teacher. I loved the advise it gave, as well as the insight into something I have not yet done, and am slightly terrified to do.
Alright, I am not as terrified as I was a few weeks ago, now I am more excited to start this last part of my pre-teaching journey.
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Monday, August 17, 2015
Friday, October 24, 2014
Why do I want to be a Teacher?
A question I have been asking myself lately.
My original reason was:
"I want to make a difference, I want to be around children, I want to have a challenge."
As I dissect my reasons I find I need to reevaluate why I want to be a teacher.
- I want to make a difference. -
Teaching is not the only place I can make a difference. However it is a good place to make a different. I just wrote a paper on George S. Counts who wanted to reform society and schools together to create a better society. He said “We are convinced that education is the one unfailing remedy for every ill to which man is subject.” And in some senses it is. Education is how we shape the future generation, and I want to be a part of it. I do what to help shape the children of the future and I want to be an active force for change in our world. Yes, I can do that in many places, however teaching is the place it speaks most to me.
- I want to be around children. -
Yeah, this reason could be tossed. There are so many other professions out there where I could work with children, and be significantly less stressed, and have significantly less work to do. However a teacher and her student have a unique bond, and that is something that I want to experience and cherish forever.
- I want to have a challenge. -
And this reason is the cake topper. "I want a challenge"? There are SO MANY other fields of work where I would be constantly challenged. If I chose a career in Mathematics, I would be challenged from the very start. If I chose to be an artist, I would be challenged to create different works of art on a regular basis. But teaching provides its own challenges, and those are the challenges I want. I want to puzzle over how to help a student and discover what is going to work for that child. I want to grow with the students as we learn together how to get along with one another. I do want the challenge of teaching, specifically.
On this blog I have been posting some lesson plans, and how I thought they went, which I think is a great way to evaluate myself. Also doing this post was helpful, reminding me why I am here in the first place. Since I have been in the Teacher Education program I have found several educational blogs that I love to look at. Some are more sophisticated than others, but all have great material.
Literacy Blog from Edutopia
Blog where Students can post their work
A blog to tell the hilarious things you hear in class!
"I want to make a difference, I want to be around children, I want to have a challenge."
As I dissect my reasons I find I need to reevaluate why I want to be a teacher.
- I want to make a difference. -
Teaching is not the only place I can make a difference. However it is a good place to make a different. I just wrote a paper on George S. Counts who wanted to reform society and schools together to create a better society. He said “We are convinced that education is the one unfailing remedy for every ill to which man is subject.” And in some senses it is. Education is how we shape the future generation, and I want to be a part of it. I do what to help shape the children of the future and I want to be an active force for change in our world. Yes, I can do that in many places, however teaching is the place it speaks most to me.
- I want to be around children. -
Yeah, this reason could be tossed. There are so many other professions out there where I could work with children, and be significantly less stressed, and have significantly less work to do. However a teacher and her student have a unique bond, and that is something that I want to experience and cherish forever.
- I want to have a challenge. -
And this reason is the cake topper. "I want a challenge"? There are SO MANY other fields of work where I would be constantly challenged. If I chose a career in Mathematics, I would be challenged from the very start. If I chose to be an artist, I would be challenged to create different works of art on a regular basis. But teaching provides its own challenges, and those are the challenges I want. I want to puzzle over how to help a student and discover what is going to work for that child. I want to grow with the students as we learn together how to get along with one another. I do want the challenge of teaching, specifically.
On this blog I have been posting some lesson plans, and how I thought they went, which I think is a great way to evaluate myself. Also doing this post was helpful, reminding me why I am here in the first place. Since I have been in the Teacher Education program I have found several educational blogs that I love to look at. Some are more sophisticated than others, but all have great material.
Literacy Blog from Edutopia
Blog where Students can post their work
A blog to tell the hilarious things you hear in class!
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Presidential Education Agenda
An article from CNN I read today, from the brief outline that the story gave, I say do it.
How wonderful would it be to only have good teachers in the school?
How nice would it be in tuition prices dropped?
Now if only these things could happen, would happen, we would be in good shape!
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