Skip to main content

Some questions

In this semester I got to go to Preston Middle School and teach/observe students. I got some of my questions answered like what should I do if a student in class keeps goofing off, or how do I get my kids to pay attention and do their work while having fun? There are just a couple questions I still have unanswered.

How will I help students who are struggling? How do I teach a student in my class whose first language isn't English? How do I get my kids interested in what I'm talking about? How do I get my kids to engage in lectures and discussions? How will I conduct my class? Will it be traditional or untraditional? Will my teaching techniques work? How can I try new things with my students without failing?

Like I said. A few questions. Truth is, I'm filled with even more questions as time goes on, because I don't feel like I'm ready to enter a class on my own. I'm not ready to teach on my own! But that's ok, because I'm not even close to earning my degree yet, so I have plenty of time to learn.

Hopefully, these questions will guide me to self-reflect and learn new things. Maybe in my next education class, I can learn how to engage with kids without looking like I'm trying too hard. Hopefully, I will find new questions to answer as time goes on. I know I will never stop learning, and that's a great feeling because that means that all my questions will eventually be answered. As long as I am asking questions about my methods, I will learn more.

Comments

  1. UnknownMay 3, 2018 at 12:32 PM

    I LOVE your last comment, "As long as I am asking questions about my methods, I will learn more." You're right on the money with that! Although you have a ton of questions regarding teaching right now, that's the best case scenario! If you're not asking questions, you're not going to be learning. Mudita, I have thoroughly enjoyed being in class with you, and I am so grateful that I got to see you progress as a student and as an educator. Your future students are incredibly lucky!

    ReplyDelete
  2. ReadingLikeAWriterMay 7, 2018 at 9:34 PM

    Mudita, I am not sure that you are ever 100% ready to be a teacher, but that is all part of being a great teacher. Teachers are not perfect human beings, and flaws are what makes humans grow. It is okay to have questions, and even unanswered questions! I loved hearing all of your insightful thoughts this semester! (-:

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Sourdough Bread Journey

 I've always been interested in baking bread and I recently took on the endeavour of baking sourdough. Immediately, I started to hear how difficult sourdough bread is to bake due to the the time consuming aspect of baking the bread properly. Even before this journey, I knew that bread-bakers always attributed sourdough to a very difficult bread. So, I started this journey with my guard up, expecting to make many mistakes that would result in uneatable bread.  Guess what. They lied.  I'm not saying it was incredibly easy, there are plenty of lessons I've learned through my mistakes. But those mistakes do not mark a difficulty for me, they mark my accomplishments. I've made mistakes I never thought I could make through my journey of baking sourdough, but they taught me valuable lessons and I don't regret a single mistake I made.  I decided to dust off my blog after taking to a friend about sourdough, and all she had heard about it was that it was the most difficult th...
Post a Comment
Read more

Students telling their stories

I think the greatest way teachers can help students is by letting them tell their story and paying attention to it. This can be by a short story assignment or just encouraging kids to write. Especially for kids who are bullied--we have a lot on our minds that often goes unsaid because we felt like no one would care. It's important to encourage students to write about their experiences so that they could try to learn from them. A great resource I found, though it seems a little rushed, is National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo. This website encourages people, student or not, to write a "novel" in the month of November and submit it at the end of the month. What you do is you make a profile so that you can start your novel on November 1st. And every time you write, you copy and paste your progress into their website so they can keep track of your progress. You earn badges along the way and even get some feedback from other users. This is a great way to encourage kid...
Post a Comment
Read more

#NeverAgain

America is all too familiar with school shootings. So many shootings aren't even covered by the media because Trump's tweets are way more important. It's always the same routine; after a shooting, the White House will offer their "thoughts and prayers", and say it's too early to talk about gun laws. Then, after a few weeks our representatives will try to start a conversation about gun laws, but since there are too many disagreements the conversation is brought to an end until the next shooting. Then the cycle starts over again. But this time, there is something different. The Parkland school shooting survivors are not satisfied with the White House's "thoughts and prayers", and are demanding change!  I am deeply saddened by the school shooting in Florida and disappointed in our representatives for saying there was nothing they can do to prevent this. Ok--let's break down that argument, shall we? The claim that nothing could have been done ...
Post a Comment
Read more