Graduation Speech : Being A Teacher

A higher education has been an important priority in my life. While I realized a high school education was important, my parents expected more. They said if I wanted to succeed in life, a college education was something that I could not live without. What they don’t tell you is how exhausting and confusing the process is to get even into.

Reading over the outcomes and objectives, how will the skills developed in this class apply to your chosen career or field of study? If you are “undecided,” how will these skills help you in your future in college and in general?

Before taking this course I was really excited about what I am going to learn. And I was right! This course is not only interesting but it is also helpful. I have learned that the grade I am having right now is the reflection of my try throughout the entire semester.

What are your plans for after high school? How can this class help in your future plans?

Tonight since it was my last time working with Keily, I told keily that today she could pick the game that we played today, but I told her it had to be math related. Of coarse, the first couple games that she wanted to play were not math related at all, but the she asked if we could play a card game. After observing in a kindergarden classroom last semester and looking at Pintrest from time to time, I drew from my previous knowledge to think of a card game that we could play that would relate to math. The first game that popped into my head was the card game war, but this was a modified version of the game. Instead of the regular war game, we would play addition wars. I told keily that in this card game we would split the deck of cards between

The Grace M. Davis Class of 2018 has been through much together. From the first day as a freshman realizing that high school is nothing like High School Musical to witnessing your first riot, #DavisRiots2014. We may have never thought about it but we all went through probably the most important part of our lives together. We may have lost friends, but we gained even better ones in return. Some of us found our best friend(s) in these past four years, or maybe you found your best friend before that and grew closer over these past four years, or maybe you’re like me and found your best friend but didn’t know it at first because you used to hate each other.

You walk in scanning the badge I gave you the night before you go up the stairs and look no one sees you . walking up to the room I told you about you go in and lock the door , in the middle of the room you see an abandon desk. in the corner is filing cabinet and there a door on the left side

Of the many transitions we must make in life, the transition from High school to something beyond is one of the greatest. For me the next step was going away to college. High school was said to have prepared me for college, but how could I be sure? One of the biggest and most shocking changes for me was leaving high school and being on my own. I was unsure of what college entailed, and i most definitely didn't know what to expect from my classes. This class was just the opportunity I needed. It cut down the worrying of what the school work will be and It has opened my eyes to what I should expect next year and the things that will be asked of me. It was a shock and a shift from what I knew. I have been really enjoying this class and I believe

I dedicate this to Mr. Kovac and Mrs. Newman, two wonderful school librarian and teacher who helped me understand what’s it truly is to be an American. Overall taught me to never judge a person by who they are, and who they look or sexaulity they have, we are all human beings and created equal. Believed that we can all get along as humans and not animals, they helped me with so much and are very kind people. I will never forget them no matter what and i’m glad that i knew them before i leave my school for good.

It is said that teaching is one the profession that creates all other professions. Everyone has been in contact with a teacher in some way or another. We understand that without teachers we would most likely be nowhere. Especially middle school teachers, who teach us during the time when we are most developing who we are, and what we want to do with ourselves. Have you ever thought about what it’s like, to be the person behind shaping all of tomorrow 's wonderful minds? Hopefully, your questions are answered, as you read on. I feel a thank you should be commissioned to Mr. Dylan Harrington for helping me better understand what it is like to be a middle school teacher through allowing me to interview him and observe his classes.

To be honest, I was quite apprehensive about taking this course. I knew that it was only there to help me, however, I didn’t know what exactly I needed help with. By no means did I think that I knew everything, but I did think that there wasn’t much that I could do and i had to work with what I had. However, to my surprise, there were many things that I had overlooked about myself and what I could do to find more direction in my future career. There was much support and guidance as to what I could do to seek a post-college career with my major.

To begin my educational journey I wouldn’t really think it was a lot until further I got into school with a lot of things. Elementary was easy for me, I only got one F. I have been upset about it but never knew about it because my mom never showed me my grades until I was older. Which it didn’t really matter to me at that time when I saw them then because it had already passed. Junior High I started to slack off I didn’t want to do anything, of course I had to if I didn’t I would fail my classes and not move on to the next grade. Then High school started I would say I did alright, but I definitely could’ve done better.

Wait time has always been a struggle for me as a teacher. During my first year, I always tried to count the prescribed three seconds before moving on to the next question or rephrasing; however, those three seconds always felt like an eternity. As I waited in silence for the student to answer the question, I began to panic, thinking that they did not understand because I had failed to teach them. Other times, I would wait three to five seconds, and just as I would begin to move on, the student would begin their answer and be interrupted. I realize now that this was an issue with my “Wait Time 2,” which I was not aware existed until reading this chapter! It took me a long time to calculate just how long to wait between questions and probes, and the amount of time differed for each of my classes. One aspect I wish my pre-service classes would have addressed is apathetic students. Apathetic students can often destroy the productive atmosphere of a class discussion, as each of the teacher’s questions are met with lengthy silence. While teaching my advanced-level classes, I was always greeted with at least two or three hands being raised to answer my questions; however, my on-level classes had a considerably lower amount of enthusiasm for answering questions. Even as I called on specific students to answer questions, they refused to raise their eyes from the page, or simply shrugged and said, “I don’t know.” The most frustrating part of this experience was knowing my students

As a new teacher I am fully aware that I will make mistakes, change my mind, copy something wiser from a more experienced teacher and still make more changes. Actually, I plan on it. The same way I want your students to always be evolving and learning, I also hope to do the same. The way that I will assess students may look a little mess for a while, a jumble of notes, tests, conversations and papers. Be glad you don’t live in my desk. But overall, I hope to know my students, to feel them out, to understand how their little minds are working, to figure out where they need help, what they know and how they got there. I want to be a hands-on-teacher with strong conversations, less homework and more learning. Real learning. Deep understanding that they can take with them and use to help them in other areas.

English class seemed to be the most dreadful to take within school. Writing essays for most of my grade in a class is not what I was looking forward too. When I entered college I knew that it would be one of many challenging classes I would have to take. Starting from the lowest English class to moving on up, the writing assignments became longer and more thought out. The time came when I got into this class that I knew more work was going to have to be put into essays and thus brought out what I had not seen before in my work progress.