My Teacher Experience

As we pulled up to the massive elementary school building, I begged my mom to let me stay home from school, just once. As usual, she said no. Realizing my attempt to get out of school was futile, I shouldered my backpack, swung open the door, and trudged over to the front door. I would rather be anywhere else than here. For the majority of my life, I attended public schools. It wasn’t rare for me to fail a test or even a whole class. It was because of these failures that I would get even more demotivated and threw away the idea of working hard or completing quality work altogether.

This semester, I was a teacher assistant for Dr. Finley’s psychology 101 course. The experience to TA has been a really valuable, and rewarding experience. I’ve definitely gotten the chance to develop skills in the professional context. The variety of tasks and the workload pace was very enjoyable for me. The opportunity of being a TA at times proved to be challenging but I find ways to successfully manage some of these adversities. Overall, there’s a plethora of things that I can take away, and I plan to utilize some of these tactics into my future goals and career aspirations.

The atmosphere she created in her classroom was unlike any teacher I’d ever had. If there’s one thing I could say, her class was never boring. Whether she was wearing a witch hat waving around a plastic sword – in correlation to Macbeth, or jamming out with an air guitar to Iron Maiden - pertaining to Dante’s Inferno. She could include anyone’s interest to make sure learning was fun for everyone. The love and compassion she has for teaching radiates off of

One of the best things you can do before entering the teaching business is to have experience. Throughout this course I had the chance to work in an actual classroom setting, create my own lessons and teach them to the students in the kindergarten classroom. It was an amazing experience and helped me become more comfortable working with early childhood students. Each lesson was recorded and showed my strengths and weaknesses in being in front of a classroom. The three of my strengths and what went well in my microteachings are; creativity, student engagement, and preparation. The three components that I could work on are; redirecting the students, lesson management and time management.

Let me tell you the guided notes CHANGED MY LIFE! But one of my favorite things about him, other than the guided notes, is how well he interacted with his students. While we were working on homework, he wasn’t just at his desk working, he was walking around and talking and laughing with his students; that made the whole classroom atmosphere more lively. Mr. Khan always told stories and jokes. I always came out of his class learning more that just math. The biggest impact Mr. Khan made on me was reassurance. In his class I actually believed I was good at math and that i could do it; i’ve never felt that way in a math class in my life. If i could say something to him today, it would be thank you for giving me confidence in myself and spending the time to teach me so

Let me begin with saying working with Professor Ortega has been a terrific experience. Professor Ortega has always made sure his student’s thoughts and feelings were heard. He is not just a skillful professor in class, but a prominent mentor out of class. After passing Ortega’s class and moving to another, I witnessed Professor Ortega keeping contact with my fellow students as well as I. Asking about future plans, recent hardships and/or grades. He’s a valued instructor throughout the Colleges.

During my eighth grade year in middle school I had one of the magnificent teachers ever, Mr. Gendron. He's was my Avid and a math teacher. He would also teach everyone what was right and wrong. Teaching everyone what they can do to succeed, asking if they needed someone to talk to, he was as a counselor to me. Whenever he would see someone changing their way to be he would know something was going on, it was as he had superpowers. He believed that we could work hard enough to succeed. He had hope on us whatsoever. Failing wasn't an option for us, he would try his best to make us understand the lesson. Making us learn each problem step-by-step. Many significant memories in my eighth grade year, but the special ones are with Mr.

While he admits he has a relaxed teaching style, he says to “always have high expectations because students don’t deserve a teacher that set’s anything else.” When I asked about his classroom

Gibson had explained to us that the biggest challenge is enjoying what you teach, especially when there can be multiple classes that you teach at a time. For example, in an episode of Boy Meets World, Mr. Feeny wants to retire because he felt unsatisfied with his teaching and believes that his students are not benefiting from him. Furthermore, in this particular episode, a couple of students egged and his tepid his house because, they did not approve of the exam schedule. As a result, Mr. Feeny felt that he had failed his students because he felt that he does not have anything else to teach them. This is due to his age and taking on all these classes to teach at one time. Overall, Mr. Gibson could have given us a bunch of more important information for our questions because, I felt that he did not really answer them well and that he was just talking about what he felt like talking about. On the other hand, I was able to write down some good notes from him and learned multiple important things that will help me to become a better teacher. He did talk about the importance of what you need to know when you have a classroom of your own. You would expect that Mr. Gibson is probably a really good teacher because he has a bunch of classes that the principal hired him to teach and that the kids probably like him a lot because he talked about keeping the classroom in

Torrance is a personable and thoughtful counselor to his students. His kind, caring, and understanding personality makes him approachable and relatable; he is a trustworthy and intelligent educator who relentlessly supports his students both inside and outside of the classroom. Students always feel welcomed and appreciated in his class. Mr. Torrance is a brilliant instructional expert, possessing undisputed mastery of his content and of effective teaching practices. Students are always engaged in his classroom; he differentiates his teaching style to engage as many different learners as possible, utilizing demonstrations, activities, and lectures in equitable amounts of class time. Students are encouraged to ask questions and think critically in his classroom. Lastly, Mr. Torrance is a respectable role model who outstandingly assumes many critical roles as a teacher. The aforementioned qualities are ones that reflect postively on a well-rounded and thoughtful educator. Students learn more in a class lead by an educator they can trust; an educator who values their students and cares about their well-being. I can’t think of a better example than Mr. Torrance to express how much a truly effective teacher means to their

They were powerful. He had been able to provide a moment of comfort in a difficult time for most of the students. He is a leader who expresses an immense care for the students at the school but still knows how to maintain his business like demeanor. His ability to shape his behavior and emotions to the atmosphere of a situation or environment is impressive. I want to be a leader that others can depend on and seek help from , feel comfortable with, respect, and that can stand up for others. I want to embody the ability to speak confidently, to be inspiring, and act accordingly with the situation I am in.

She was really hands- on with creating a classroom environment that was suitable for her students. She worked really hard in transforming her classroom into a theorist class. She was very educated and I believe had taught this grade level for sometime. This was a first grade classroom. Twenty plus students, I was astonished how focused they are to their teacher and her teaching. She did not loose their attention even once. As I was this classroom, the teacher used several theories to implement in her classroom; the first one I picked up was the preoperational stage of development based on Piaget theories. She read out-loud to her students and they would sound out all of the verbs in the story she told. I thought this was neat because during this stage, the fixation is on encounters that the students have the capacity to rehearse and in this way learn at their own pace with

By presenting his life events to the students, he formed a character anyone would love to become. He began to speak about success, they say you need to work hard to achieve more but he discusses it was just his luck. This gave the audience hope, it brought him closer to them in a way many people can’t he showed he isn’t anything more than everyone who sat before him. Developing this persona not only created an argument of ethos, but allowed him to win his audience over. The audience only knows a successful man standing on that stage, not the humble one that is willing to admit the road has been tough.

I would rate Mr. Escalante as depicted in the movie Stand and Deliver as an excellent teacher! Ron Clark a renown and excellent teacher in his own right, states there are 11 characteristics that should be found in every teacher who is raising children who love to learn. These characteristics included enthusiasm, adventure, creativity, balance, compassionate, fun, common sense, appreciation, resilience and accountable. I observed every one of these characteristics in the character of Mr. Escalante in the movie Stand and Deliver. In the beginning of the movie, as Mr. Escalante began this experience, I do not believe he knew things were as bad as what he encountered on the first day of school. Classrooms with graffiti on the inside, insufficient chairs for the number of students assigned in the classroom, high school students attending school without school supplies, students vandalizing their school and defecating in the office, rigging the bell to completely disrupt the school day, even students inside the classroom without any desire to learn.

Teaching is not just a job that I perform because I expect a reward at the end of each month; it is my passion and I feel extremely satisfied with every successful lesson. I like to help the society, and teaching gives me a great opportunity to do so. I am passionate about educating my students, so I work with them and motivate them to lead them to find inspiration in learning. I use different strategies to engage them and share with them the knowledge.