Teacher Reflection

While growing up and observing my teachers at school, I have learned that it isn’t always an easy job. Teachers do everything they can to teach their students’ academic, social and other formative skills. Plenty of my teachers have to deal with complications, most of them being minor, but it isn’t always an easy job helping children, teens and young adults. As a student myself, I know they can be stubborn, unwilling to learn, aggressive, and irresponsible. Sometimes, they simply don’t care. However, that is a teacher's purpose: to help and shape their students to become better learners, so that they have a clearer understanding regarding a variety of subject matters. Someday, I actually want to become an elementary art teacher, which is

Teachers today face a number of challenges that contribute to a lack of job satisfaction, leaving schools for other professions that are more lucrative, low comparative compensation, and poor working conditions:

Since my time at Sparks Elementary I have only been able to observe two routines that my mentor teacher has done with the other 3rd grade teacher’s. To start off the morning, Mr.Locklear meets his class in the cafeteria to greet them before the day get’s started. The teachers then instruct the student’s to set their backpack’s in their designated area and take the materials needed for their first rotation of class. When the student’s have set there belonging’s down, the teacher’s line up the students in the middle of the common area, where the student’s will be lead to their special’s classes like Music, P.E and Art. While the student’s part take in special’s, Mr. Locklear takes care of any last minute assignment’s or note’s he need’s before he start’s teaching his first class. He also take’s part in a weekly meeting the 3rd grade teacher’s conduct to go over any announcement’s or strategies. Once the student’s come back from special’s, Mr.Locklear starts off his math lesson with Mrs. Sanchez classroom. As soon as the student’s enter the class, they are instructed to take out their journal’s and engage with what the teacher is teaching for the first 10 minutes of class. In those first few minutes of class Mr. Locklear introduces the topic or objective that the students will be learning and engages them to participate in the examples he places on the permithian board. He then has the student’s break up into group’s to do their daily math station’s. While some student’s do

I learned quickly that being an effective teacher is an art that takes time and devotion. Many times, teachers are not provided with the necessary materials in order to maintain the various learning styles in a classroom. It is up to the teacher to create an environment where students can succeed. This is a full time job, meaning that a teacher’s work is not done once they leave the school. A teacher must contribute a significant amount of time and effort in order to see positive results in the school and in his or her own classroom. After observing my cooperating teacher’s strategies and learning more about the profession, I knew that I was going in the right direction with my life. I took a significant amount of knowledge away from this experience and have continued to strive to be the type of educator that I was blessed to work with during this experience. .

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires” -William Arthur Ward. Throughout the history of each of our learning careers, I am sure every student has been taught by one of these kind of teachers. The one who talks for hours upon end about their bike trip across the country and all of the life lessons they learned along the way or the one who decides they simply must not let you take their word for it and prove an entire calculus problem for 3 hours. But, there are also the exceptionally unordinary ones. During my time of slavery in the Rochester school system, I have been blessed with many of these teachers. Their love for their job and the way they impact and love

No surgeon or senator or scientist ever gave credit to a lazy teacher for inspiring him. Instead, it is the teachers who pushed their students hard and themselves harder who most inspire their students. It is impossible to imagine a successful attorney fondly reminiscing about the three weeks he spent copying notes off the board at the end of the semester when his teacher did not feel like designing yet another jazzy activity. Future leaders are motivated by current leaders, and those current leaders are today’s teachers. Apathetic teachers only serve to promote apathy in their students, and stagnant ideas serve no one’s best interests. Students are at an impressionable age, and they deserve to see their teachers finishing their year as strongly as they are telling students

Imagine a world where educators did not exist. That world would be deprived of doctors, lawyers, scientists, law enforcement, etc. These necessary careers can only be made possible at the hands of our teachers, as they are the foundation to education. Without them, society would crumble. They enable children to excel in their greatest self, and continue to guide and shape their learning through childhood, adolescence and even adulthood. Teachers hold one of the most important careers in today’s society, but do not receive the recognition that is rightfully deserved. The men and women who pick this path for their career have a passion for children and teaching; they invest many hours in ensuring a quality education for their students. Those

In conclusion, a teacher is not a force to be reckoned with and only the bravest of people would deal with such a force; these people must be prepared to live a life free of happiness and full of depression. They must put up with the constant mood swings of an educator and learn to live an old fashioned life. Most people are not brave and are reluctant, is the reason most teachers are

    My love for teaching began in 4th grade when my teachers first noticed that recess was not my favorite thing. Instead of making me go outside on cold days they allowed me to stay inside and grade papers. Those days were my favorite because eating lunch and grading with my teachers made me feel responsible, but it wasn’t until many years later when I realize it did make me responsible.

The first main assertion to the diminishing efficacy and morale is that teachers were addressed as workers who needed to be admonished to buckle down and work hard as opposed to the distinction they deserved, individuals who have the capacity to think their way through complex undertakings. The article presents comparisons and evidences to support this claim. Although blue-collar workers are expected to do perform their job with vigilance and vigor, it is also assumed that their tasks will be

After reading all the guidelines and examples, I realized that these ideas are very helpful with engagement in the classroom. The Industrial Tic Tac Toe caught my eyes because I am actually using it to complete this assignment and it gives me complete autonomy over my work, which is the point. When trying to engage students, I learned from the guidelines, is that you should give your students autonomy and when you give them choices, they're more willing to engage. Using the Tic Tac Toe assignment is a good way for engagement. When I have my classroom of 6th graders, I want to use this assignment method so that my students have choices. I would also probably do this once a week and give them the whole week to hand it in whenever. I feel

I found the parent panel very informative – I loved being able to hear from parents about their opinions on important school related subjects such as new teachers, multicultural education, and homework. Personally, the most interesting aspect of the panel was listening to the parents speak about their thoughts on multicultural education. All four parents expressed that they did not see the importance of multicultural education being included in their child’s school curriculum. One parent explained that her daughter’s school has a culture night where families can come dressed up in clothing specific to their culture and bring ethnic food dishes. However, this parent said that she is fine with that being the only multicultural aspect in her daughter’s school. I found these statements interesting due to another class I am currently taking – ED 525 – whose sole purpose is the implementation of multicultural education into classrooms. In the class, the professor stresses how multicultural education is one the most important aspects of a school’s climate; I was surprised to hear from parents who did not agree.

One of the most important aspects I want to incorporate in my classroom is making STEM-based subjects less rigid and monotonous for students by providing creative ways for students to embrace STEM-based subjects. In Memphis, teachers are doing just that by structuring lessons “that could be implemented with young children at the local museum as well as in practicum placements in assigned classrooms” (Counsell, Peat, Vaughn, & Johnson, 2015, p. 64). In addition to formatting the lessons in both museums and classrooms, the teachers are also emphasizing the fact that “the need to acknowledge and respect children’s thinking and ideas is equally paramount” (Counsell et al., 2015, p. 65). I strongly agree with Counsell et al.’s opinions on respecting children’s ideas, as I believe that it creates an environment where the children are encouraged to express themselves. After going to a museum and seeing exhibits that tie into the STEM-based lesson, which regarded wheels in this specific article, the teacher then leads several phases of learning within the classroom, beginning with the children observing different types of wheels (Counsell et al., 2015, pp. 65-6). The instructor then asks the children “productive questions [which] guide and facilitate children’s logical-mathematical and scientific thinking” (Counsell et al., 2015, p. 66). In doing this the children are more likely to form a greater understanding of the topics they are learning in class and will be able to apply them

When I think about teachers that I have had in the past, several different ones come to my mind. Each of these educators stands out in my mind for a variety of diverse reasons. Whether it is their sense of humor, their tactfulness, their love of the subject matter, their fanatical and sporadic behavior, or their yearning to be childish themselves, I can still remember at least one quality of every teacher I have ever encountered. Every one of these teachers conveyed subject material to their students just as they were educated and employed to do. However, I trust that every professional in the world has an abundance of opportunity for improvement; teachers could discover and improve themselves merely by having

Being a teacher is not an easy task as many people could think. To be a teacher does not only imply to know the subject to be taught, it also includes being willing to constantly improve oneself integrally, as much as updating the resources and materials one uses in teaching. Reflecting and analyzing over and over again the best way to teach to learn and how to make students to extend what has been learned. The many hours spend in the classroom will never be enough to plan lessons, prepare materials, review pupils tasks and exams, as well, all the administrative requirements one has to cover for whatever institution we work. Besides all this a good teacher, a professional one, will have to find the time to keep preparing to improve