I
absolutely love hearing my classmate’s personal stories and experiences
teaching in their own classrooms, that’s why I really enjoyed the first day of
school presentations. Everyone did a really good job! I got really good ideas
from everyone’s first day lesson. I can’t wait until I get the chance to give
my first day presentation to my own classroom one day. Hopefully it goes well
and all my students enjoy me!
In
today’s class Betty did her theme, which was classroom management. She did an
astounding job, with such insightful information that I could definitely use in
my classroom. I think that the KWL graphic organizer she used went perfectly
with the topic at hand. I really liked her articles as well. I am actually
going to be using one of them for me thesis paper. I never really thought about
all of the detail that goes into classroom management. I mean, there are the
obvious stuff you think about such as organization, classroom arrangement,
rules and procedures, but I never really though about the outcome. Betty
brought up how teachers should deal with the breaking of the rules, late work
policies, cheating, poor quality work, etc. These are things that I never
really considered when thinking about teaching. I love how she brought up
documenting everything when it comes to students misbehaving such as the date,
the behavior that was at fault, how you handled it, what things were said. This
is so important because it is so easy to forget such critical details,
especially for a teacher who has so many other things, such as students, new
assignments, grading, lessons to worry about. I also never thought about this,
but it is such a good idea. I loved the personality test as well! I always
thought that I would be a fair and balanced teacher and according to my
results, it was pretty accurate. But at the same time, who knows how I’d really
be in a classroom? Maybe I should retake that personality test after my first
year of teaching and see how accurate it really is. Great job Betty!
We
watched a video in class as well. It was called, Malcolm Gladwell: Choice, Happiness, & Spaghetti Sauce. This
was a really interesting video. I wish we got the chance to watch the rest of
it, but unfortunately it was cut off. Basically what I got from this video is
that people have to think of things from a business perspective sometimes. The
people from Ragu and Prego created several different options of spaghetti
sauces for their consumers. From a business mind, Malcolm speaks about how a
company should not create or perfect one item, they should make the best of
everything. Consumers do not really know what they want, the companies should
figure it out for them and create several options for them. Once the spaghetti
companies did that, they succeeded. Ragu now has 36 different options of
spaghetti sauces! This topic can relate to teaching in a sense. Teachers need
to explore the different ways of teaching. There are so many different ways to
present and teach a topic. This is true especially when it comes to teaching
mathematics. There are so many ways to solve a problem, to get the right
answer. Not one single way is the best way. As an educator, you need to investigate
the different ways. One way may be good for one student, when another way may
be better for another student. A teacher’s job is so critical and so detailed,
that no teacher should take it lightly. Great teachers research and learn new
things and new ways of teaching every year. I cannot wait until it’s my turn to
teach and have a math class to myself! Just thinking about it makes me so happy. :)
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