Teacher As A Future Teacher

Despite the negative findings about trauma in children there is some positive findings as well. Findings show that teachers can play an important role and help alter the learning process on childhood trauma victims by understanding the signs being presented, helping and taking action with the broken students within the class, and bring to mind outside professionals as needed.

Ideally, when I graduate, I would like to enter the credential program at Cal Poly Pomona. As an English Education major, I feel like this is the next logical step for me as I seek to move forward on my path of becoming a teacher. The opportunities that await me in the credential program truly excite me because I have always found my studies of English Education to be very rewarding and purposeful. I have found this to be especially true now because I am currently in the process of conducting observation hours at local high schools in Pomona as part of my English Education curriculum. When I am in the classroom, I immediately feel a sense of joy, purpose, and productivity. Outside of the classroom, I do have experience teaching as a leader for a club on campus; I am a Woman’s Bible Study Leader for Cal Poly Cru and I have found this experience of teaching college students to be the most exciting, challenging, and rewarding experience I have ever had the pleasure of being a part of. It can become overwhelming as doubts and deadlines tend to sneak in on me from time to time, but I know that being a teacher is worth every ounce of pressure because of the positive impact that a teacher has the ability to make on a student. There is an incredible statistic that states that “On average a teacher affects 3,000 children over the course of their career” (Bickley). This opportunity stirs my heart like nothing else because when I was in high school, I had an incredible teacher named

Teaching can be a rewarding profession, but it can also be a cause of stress for some. Conflicts arise in any situation where groups of people are placed together. A classroom filled with students will inevitably face conflicts. How the teacher approaches and solves these will determine the outcome of feeling successful or stressed.

The first of the five is aptitude. Being a post secondary history teacher means you need to have good aptitude. According to the bureau of labor statics“Aptitude means the ability to do something or the natural ability to do something.” You need to be able to do basic skills but also be able to learn new skills. The bureau also states“A postsecondary teacher needs to have good critical thinking skills to conduct research experiments.” As a teacher you would need to go out into the field and learn/ study about you topic. A third thing the bureau says is “These teachers need good Interpersonal skills to work well with other and have good communication skills” When you are teaching you will be in front of students teaching or talking about the subject and without communication skills you would not be able to teach. According to the college board“A good post secondary teacher needs to be resourcefulness they need to be able to adapt their teaching style to the student's learning style.” You need to be prepared for any type of student who walks into your classroom. Also according to the college board“The teacher needs to have good writing skills in order to publish their findings and research” As i said before you will be publishing work you find. Without good writing skills you will not be able to do this task.

“When we are too busy to reflect on how we are living our lives; it is almost certain that we are too busy not doing the right things”(Kelly, 2017). As I began to reflect on myself as a teacher, I asked the question of what made me desire the career in the first place. To answer this, I will tell you a story of a young girl who was entranced by her parent’s careers as Nassau BOCES employees. She took in as much information as possible as she watched her mother, a Speech Pathologist, feed a child through a feeding tube, and her father, a Special Education Teacher, create a comfortable environment in his classroom. As one might guess, this girl was me, and my parents are my inspiration to become a teacher. While I lack the ability to speak another language, my patience and hard work will allow me to be successful in my future endeavors as an aspiring educator. Furthermore, my experiences in school have motivated me to implore my future students to think critically. Readings and videos such as Tuning in to teacher-talk by Susi Long, The School to Prison Pipeline by Marilyn Elias, Engaged Pedagogy by Bell Hooks, and The Dangers of a Single Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, allow me to constantly reflect on myself as a teacher.

Daniel Pink makes a solid, science built point regarding motivation 3.0 in his book “Drive”. For the 21st century we are in need of more people that allow themselves to have autonomy, purpose and mastery in their life to become successful and achieve happiness in their careers. Able to look at my future career as a specialist instructor/teacher in a different point of view. After reading every chapter I was able to see how I can apply some of these methods to achieve my goals and also be happy in my career. Most of us look at our future and think we need to pick a career that can offer us a 6 digit yearly income, without realizing if that career will bring us happiness. Drive was able to make me realize when looking at my future career I

Coming from a large family, I’ve been around babies and children since I was a child myself. this is where my passion for children originated. When I turned 12, I got my babysitting license from Red Cross as soon as I could sign up for the class. Then, after six years of various babysitting jobs here and there, I received my first professional job in education at an elementary school in my neighborhood, working for their after school program. Since that job I can’t imagine doing anything other than teaching.

I teach because of my insatiable passion to motivate, inspire, and to positively impact my students in a way that will encourage lifelong learning. I believe the best way to positively influence any student is to first build rapport with them. After I establish that relationship, I will proceed to teach and lead that student to academic success. My teaching will be student-centered and focused heavily on inquiry based teaching aligning with the Next Generation Science Standards. I also plan on continuing my education through taking classes, attending conferences, and by traveling.

I want to teach because I believe that education is extremely important. Education is the foundation of success in life, and teachers can make a lasting effect on each student’s lives. I love to help others explore and learn new things, and teaching is a way for me to accomplish that. As a teacher, I will strive to promote positive learning, spark learner enthusiasm, and provide a strong foundation to my student for lifelong learning. As a future teacher, one of my many goals will be to develop a student-centered environment where students learn through social interaction and collaboration with the support of technology. I want to incorporate a number of teaching methods and approaches to accommodate a wide variety of learning styles and to meet the goals and objectives of the course or program being taught. Specifically, for English Language Learners in the general education classroom, I will provide more visuals and models, incorporate more group work, and incorporate the student’s home language and culture into the classroom. Students come from many racial, cultural, ethnical, and social-economic status backgrounds. Because of this, I will use culturally responsive teaching which is instruction that acknowledges and accommodates cultural diversity. I will build on students’ backgrounds to help them transition into my classroom. I believe that teachers should respect, celebrate, and recognize the normality of diversity in all areas of human life. I believe that

“One of the most damaging myths prevailing in American education is the notion that good teachers are born and not made” (Darling-Hammond, 2012, p. ix). This seems to imply that teaching teachers is simply an identification process. Unfortunately, the identification of what makes an effective teacher is challenging (Cantrell & Kane, 2013), the process of becoming a teacher is consistently reported as a difficult and strenuous process (Akkerman & Meijer, 2011; Beijaard, Meijer, & Verloop, 2004), and identification of how best to train new teachers is unclear (Shuls & Ritter, 2013). These qualities of teacher education are unsettling in light of the international call to deliver relevant and high-quality teacher education

The role of a teacher in today’s world is a complex and diverse one. Not only teachers play a crucial and vital role in providing content area knowledge to students, but also providing intellectual and social development, having integrity, being honest and always modeling appropriate conduct in the classroom and the community. Being a teacher is much more than just executing lesson plans; they also carry the role of effectively communicate with a variety of constituents, applicate of the Code of Ethics and Principles of Professional Conduct, and comprehend the grounds and procedures for disciplinary actions that can be imposed by the Education Practices Commission.

The integration of technology has help society to improve as itself, it means in social, cultural and economic aspects. What concern teachers, is how technology and this “knowledge society” might help the teaching-learning process inside the classroom. So, in order to continue improving society and specially the educational field we must consider what means to educate in knowledge society, how to teach in it and finally what skills are needed to know how to integrate technology inside the classroom.

Since I was a little girl, I have been vehemently drawn towards a career as a teacher. As we get older, we tend to change our career aspirations from what we dreamed of as a child. For me, the career of choice and indeed my passion continues to be teaching. I have always enjoyed being around children and especially younger ones. Combining my passion for teaching and enjoyment of the company of younger children leads me to the belief that I should be an elementary school teacher. “An elementary school teacher is a person trained to educate children from pre-kindergarten to fifth grade. They are responsible for the educational and emotional growth of children in a classroom setting, as well as managing the materials and resources used for

“Teacher education may assume a leadership role in the transformation of education or be left behind in a swirl of rapid technological change.” UNISCO-2002

In the box below are given the types of glaciers from A-F. Match the glaciers with the correct definitions numbered 6-10.