1. What challenges have you faced?
Some of the challenges I have faced behavior issues with the students, disgruntle parents, difficult administration and time management. When I 1st started teaching I had 34 students and I would give homework and I could not check the homework every night and I had a policy where if the child missed 3 homework they would get a phone call. And she called the students home the parent was very rude and was wondering why she was just now getting a call. She didn’t use profanity but I felt degraded and my confidence went down and I felt like I wasn’t a good teacher.
2. What’s your best approach to lesson planning?
The best approach to lesson planning is to be in a quiet space with my materials and I must be
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One of my weaknesses is technology and incorporating it into the lesson. But I am trying to get better by asking questions and my school offers training in the technology in the classroom. The smartboard being an example. Plus, they upgraded the smartboard and I was just adjusting to the one I had currently and then we got a new one.
8. When did you decide to become a teacher and why did you choose this field?
I always wanted to be a teacher even as a child. What helped me make that decision was my first calculus and accounting course because I realize business was not for me and I have always worked with children on one level or another. I was a Sunday school teacher at my church and I had nieces and nephews that I had to watch and assist with their work.
9. What personal strengths do you find especially helpful in your teaching?
The personal strengths that you find helpful in my teaching is the fact that I have always been around children which helps me know how they think and being a team player and work well with others. And plus, I liked to see a finished product. I like to start something and finish it through which is important when teaching.
10. What is your philosophy of education?
My philosophy of education. I still hold on to my three R’s reading, writing a and arithmetic but I see the benefits of grouping and using the different learning style to give the students different every point to the learning. Then education
For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to teach young children. I knew I wanted to teach preschool when I dropped my cousins off at their school. It looked so fun and
When I was younger I wanted to be a teacher. I would drive my younger siblings crazy always wanting to play school during our free time. I would set up a mock classroom and come up with my very own lesson plans. I would be the teacher and they would be my students. Being the oldest I have always liked to take control and share my knowledge. I have also always been the nurturing one and the first to help others. I was sure that I had the skills and what it took to become a teacher.
I have always wanted to become a teacher. From playing school with my little sisters, to volunteering a summer camps and elementary schools, there is not better feeling, to me, than to know that I have helped someone to accomplish a goal and develop better as a person. I think that there is no better way to impact the lives of other people than to become a teacher. As a teacher, not only will be able to affect the lives of these students from day t day, but I can also make an impact on the life of each child and hopefully their family as well.
I have known from a young age I wanted to become a teacher when I grew up. Throughout high school, the passion I have
How long have you been teaching, and why did you choose a career in Education?
I thought very highly about teachers and education; to me, being a teacher was the best profession to be in. As I got older, I started to look deeper into the idea of being an educator, and my desire to become a teacher grew. My mother had a huge
When I was little some of my closest family members were educators, so naturally I wanted to become a teacher when I grew up. Although, as I grew older I changed my mind about what I wanted as my profession a lot. I went from wanting to become a teacher to wanting to pursuing a career in the fashion industry as a fashion designer, and then I wanted to become a FBI Agent. I probably changed my mind a million times, before I realized that I wanted to become a teacher. I arrived at this decision in high school, more specifically during the first semester of eleventh grade.
Growing up, I had such big hopes and dreams for myself. As a child, I always aspired to be a teacher because I loved telling people what to do and taking charge. I am the oldest child and would always have to help my brother with his homework and teach him how to do things around the house. I remember how I enjoy quizzing him for his spelling tests. Unfortunately, life did not go as planned and I ended up taking the wrong path in life. However, 13 years and 3 kids later I decided to return to college.
When I was younger I always wanted to be a teacher. Throughout my middle school years I figured. I wanted to be a Special Ed Teacher. My sophomore in year high school I had an opportunity to be apart of a special camp. This camp was were special children would come for a week and people would volunteer to watch them for that specific week. My church does this every other year, so when I was old enough to go, I signed up to go. The camp is named Camp Barnabas and it impacted my life in so many marvelous ways.
When I was in elementary school I would spend most of the summer setting stuffed animals up on my bed to teach them all the math problems I had learned the previous year in school. In middle school my friends would come over and I'd teach them how to do cool tricks on the trampoline or how to draw bubble letters. Once I was in high school, I had more opportunities to work with children and I took them without hesitation. Since teaching is something I enjoy doing in my freetime I know it's something I would love to do as a career.
I have always known I wanted to become a teacher. When I was in school
When I was little, I wanted to be a teacher. Anytime someone would ask me what I wanted to be, I would tell them that I wanted to be a teacher. I would also keep my worksheets and workbooks from school and teach my dolls. As I became older, I always kept that in my top jobs, but I would become less and less sure of it. When I had the opportunity of having Mrs. McGough as a teacher, my confidence about it went back up.
My desire to become a teacher began while I was in junior high school however; my family, friends, and coaches basically turned me against it. They said it was a jobless market with no future. At that age, those people were very impressionable on my decisions, and because of this I became disillusioned about my career, and at that point I just knew I wanted to attend college.
When I first started school, I had no idea what I was doing. I knew I wanted to work with kids but I just didn’t know what. After taking so many education classes I started to believe I wanted to work as a teacher’s assistant. But finally, after this semester I would like to continue to become a teacher. I have learned so much and have can’t wait to learn more as I continue with more school. I have a passion of helping children, seeing them learn and having fun truly makes me
The biggest strength I have is to be creative with the situation that I am given. This in not only a skill that suggest that one can synthesize material to give it a sense of authenticity, but also can adapt and accommodate in the moment. Even the best planners can have a poor classroom dynamic; the rigidity of these classes is what prevents them from engaging students in the moment. I genuinely believe in effective planning and mythology but I also believe in breaking from the script and to accommodate the needs of learners in creative ways.