My Passion In Literature

Do you ever find yourself wondering how you can form a better connection with your students? You are not alone. In her book, Bad Guys Don’t Have Birthdays, Vivian Paley looks for ways to improve her teaching methods and connect with the children in her class. After coming in contact with a school director that was a fan of promoting abstract thinking, Paley noticed that she was neglecting to take her students’ ideas into consideration and in many instances, focusing more on what she knew to be the answer rather than how her class solved the problem. To change her teaching style, Paley thought it would be better to immerse herself in the many different perspectives of her preschool class rather than presuming that she understands

Writing is not just marking letters, words, or symbols on a piece of work. My perspective states that writing is not just expressing yourself through words; in fact, it is mostly one’s expression; your emotions, thoughts, beliefs, etc. Correspondingly, according to myself, writing is extremely artistic and evocative way to reveal one self’s personality. Most important, I am in the creative writing class, because I desired to be in it, due to the fact that it is my passion, it is a way I can express myself thoroughly, and it makes me feel as if I am in a whole different world where I can reveal everything I desire.

During my time at Teachers College, I have expanded my knowledge of writing and teaching lessons in a way that engages my students while meeting their needs. Many times I have been challenged to think beyond the traditional lesson and consider ways to make the lesson innovative and engaging while meeting standards and student needs. Some lessons took longer and were tougher than others to plan, and there were times when it was harder to make something students found dull into something exciting. It is these topics that challenged me to rethink the way that I could present the material in a more relevant way that gave students a chance to engage in activities. During every step of the lesson from planning, teaching, to the post-teaching reflection that I was challenged to think about what went well, what students really liked, and what I could do better.

For me, teaching provides the opportunity to share my passion for education with my students. It has been said that teachers should not be allowed to develop relationships with their students, because it interferes with their learning. However, I believe it is the relationship between the teacher and the students that sets the groundwork for their learning. When students feel as though they have a purpose for being in the classroom, and that they have a teacher who cares for their well-being, it gives them the confidence and motivation they need to continue with their education.

Being an English major, I analyzed my audience and realized that they were just scared college students who felt uncomfortable, so I adapted to my audience and started to make them realize that I was just like them. I pushed out the rhetoric of fear, and I introduced pathos. I appealed to their emotion and made them realize that I know the struggle. I related to them and I understood the pressure of college life, so I would often use games and competitions to get them to interact with the material they didn’t understand. I made my students see me as a friend through communication and understanding. I used rhetoric and new teach strategies to make my students go from scared and uncomfortable, to having them walk in and talk to me about their

“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.” -Kofi Annan. Literacy in my family tree will never be brought back to scholars or philosophers infact Many in my family have not seeked and further education and many have not even finished high school.my love for literacy has been placed into my heart by my sister.As a child my sister has always handed me book after book each one with a smile on her face.

What do you think about when you hear the word teacher? Many would say that their first thought is a person lecturing in the front of a classroom. Although lecture is a necessity, there are many different forms of teaching that we do not pay close enough attention to. For the student’s sake, it is crucial that a teacher is constantly transitioning their teaching styles. For example, if I were teaching The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, I would brainstorm different styles of teaching and learning by engaging the students in enjoyable activities relating to the novel. Educators can provide a history of the novel, they can engage the students while reading, and they can plan novel based activities. There are several different ways to incorporate teaching styles in the classroom.

The purpose of this speaker's message was simply to challenge us to think about the "how" students will acquire and demonstrate knowledge and consider "why" we choose certain modalities to learn content in our classrooms. The biggest immediate takeaway I have is to make sure that I am empowering my students to take ownership of their learning. What that looks like varies from class to class, but it is an important first step in ensuring my students are active learners and innovative

My desire to teach really derives from those who really connected me with the love for educating others. The connection I made with my fourth grade teacher really encouraged me to seek a change for the better in my life and help others do the same. For she turned out to be one of my best friends who would watch out and made sure to tell me when something was not quite right with me. The connection I had with her made me feel like I was a part of her family, and could do anything with her support. The way she always had time to listen to my drama or play games with my friends and I created this idea that maybe I could be that person for other kids. In the fourth grade I had just moved from a very different demographic of kids, only had a few

Using some new ways to teach students is very helpful for teacher has an interesting class. Students took the traditional teaching styles since they are in middle school. They need some new teaching skills to give them an interesting class. Using the new ways to teach students can make students have a deep impression and make students keep focus on the class. Using the new ways is a good way to teach students have a deep impression. For example, in the article “Teachers Who Inspire: A Reader Turned Writer”, which written by Austin Stanley, tell us a story that when Stanley was studied in fifth grades, his teacher which called Mr. Spathe use some new ways to make them like writing. The new way is very useful for students, Mr. Spathe uses reading

The concepts that the educational scholars and psychologists suggested also helped me in understanding my own views on education. The fact that I have words that I can use to describe my interests as a teacher, Existentialism and Reconstructionism, makes me not only feel relieved that my ideas and thoughts on teaching can be summed up into specific words but it also makes me feel like I am not the only one that thinks that teaching should be done in a certain way to help benefit the majority of students. As Maxine Green would state it, I believe that it is important to “create significant encounters with works of art, with literature, and with life in ways that lead students to pose new questions” (Teach, 113). To know that someone like Maxine Green believes in a similar way of teaching as I do with students makes me feel so much more relieved that there is a name and a face that I can associate my teaching beliefs

I'm passionate about writing. I can adapt and write about a variety of topics. My writing skills include blogs, articles, poetry and novels.

Journal, camera, and a bull horn. I am a writer, when I put my pen to a piece of paper I feel that I am allowing myself to be truly unfiltered."Many will travel to hear you speak". I saw this on a fortune cookie from Panda Express during a time when I was unsure on what I wanted to be and what my talents were. I always had a passion for writing and public speaking.

A lot of people are literate in Reading and Writing, however, I am literate in other things such as Guitar, Fencing, Bowling, Metal-Detecting, Reading, Writing, and tons of other things. But I really have a passion for Reading and Writing. When I start writing, I really get into it and I do not want to stop, but sometimes when I do not get into it, I just write a small amount amount and don't really have a passion for what I am writing. But when it is good I put a lot of feeling into it. The same goes for reading, I love to read a book if it fits into my interest, I usually like books with more action and surprising moments. It can be realistic fiction, it does not matter to me. There are always weaknesses to everyone's strengths.

My passion is to not only teach students in a creative and positive way that they are actually learning but also to inspire them to learn and make something great of themselves in their future. The reason being when I was younger I did not take my education that serious. If I would have known then how serious an education was, I feel that I could have accomplished more in middle and high school. After school I wouldn't care about actually learning about my homework. For this reason I want to inspire kids to want to learn at a young age and for them to see that their education and work ethic is very important even at their age. Most importantly I want my future students to want to learn.