The Role Of Educator Myself

A supportive learning environment should be purposeful and task orientated, where the tutor emphasises the need to progress steadily. This can be done by starting lessons promptly, creating a smooth flow to the lesson, involving pupils and monitoring their progression and organisation. A positive effort should be made to ensure pupils have or build on self-respect and esteem by setting realistic opportunities for success and helpful support and encouragement whenever difficulties arise.

Another way to create a positive environment is by acknowledging the existence of the child’s potential. If a teacher gives a child work to do and he does not have the mental capacity to do the child will not succeed. With a child, it is first learning how to sit up then crawl and then walk. The child goes

After reading this article, I concluded that providing varied instructional methods and learning activities which meet students’ academic and personal needs while creating a positive and safe learning environment are important strategies to utilize for all students, especially students with learning

America has become a major player when it comes to diversity. Currently, we see diversity all around us; in people, ideas and even philosophies. However, when referring to the school systems, teachers and students, it is essential to understand that differences will certainly arise. In such a traditional country, often the question of what curriculum or philosophy should be implemented appears. At this point, the reader can observed educators focusing on an essentialist curriculum, while others are focusing on the idea of social reconstruction. First, it is fundamental to understand what are these two philosophies, and their purposes. Then, the question is what should the educator do? Which one should be applied?

The learning environment is where students are emotional, physical, or socially safe. The parents, administrators, teachers, and community need to see that I am someone they can approach without fear or discrimination. Also, my classroom is a zone for my students to feel safe to explore, the freedom of creativity and be able to ask

Assist students in understanding subjects while securing a positive learning surrounding that is suitable to the safety and growth of all students

I began my quest with the goal to examine how I can better prepare pre-service by asking, what is a good teacher educator? What knowledge, skills, or competencies should a teacher educator possess? Little is known about the professional quality of teacher educators (Koster, Brekelmans, Korthagen, & Wubbels, 2005; Zeichner, 1999). It is problematic that many assume that an effective teacher will make a good teacher educator (Korthagen, Loughran, & Lunenberg, 2005) or conversely, that an effective teacher educator will make a good teacher (Ritter, 2014). These views suggest that teacher educators are neither particularly specialized nor highly valued (Korthagen et al., 2005). As noted in Chapter 1, these assumptions are inconsistent with the growing body of research describing the expertise required for teacher educators (Korthagen et al., 2005; Koster et al., 2005; Loughran & Russell, 2007; Murray & Male, 2005). Additionally, when viewed through a constructivist lens, the importance of the teacher educator is heightened when one acknowledges that the teacher educator facilitates the students’ development of their own knowledge and skills (Korthagen et al., 2005).

Teaching is an undervalued profession. Being a teacher requires a lot of time commitment to your students and classroom. Teachers are often times looked at as an easy profession to go into and do not really get recognized for all they do. With so much technology coming out teachers are having a harder and harder time being able to use it because their school does not offer the use of technology. Students no longer want to learn out of textbooks they want to learn with projects and learn through technology because technology is an important use in their everyday lives. Students also want to be more engaged in projects because this will help them make decisions and to collaborate with others. If teachers were paid more and schools were modernized this would help schools become more appealing to students.

There are many things needed to create an environment more conducive to learning for each student, some of which include:

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.

This is a personal research project that takes a look at where I have been and where I would like to go while developing statements regarding my cause, mission, and personal code of ethics. Also, I will indentify my 5 year and 10 year plans and my key values.

“To stimulate life, – leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, - herein lies the first task of the educator. In such a delicate task, a great art must suggest the moment, and limit the intervention in order that we shall arouse no perturbation, cause no deviation, but rather that we shall help the soul which is coming into the fullness of life, and which shall live from its own forces. This art must accompany the scientific method.”

I recall watching one my favorite movies “Dead Poets Society” quite frequently when I am preparing a class for the students. The main character Robin Williams who plays John Keating is a professor that inspires his students to love poetry through his unorthodox style of teaching. His mantra was less lecture and more interaction, which fostered free thought and critical thinking among his students. Creating an interactive environment that promotes academic unbiased towards any student promotes even the most introverted student to become outspoken and a creative thinker. I try with every class I present to promote this style of learning. Over the last six years of teaching the Marine Corps, I have come to the realization that “teaching” is not always about the informational content but about the inspiring delivery of knowledge. I have pondered countless hours what the “title” Master Faculty Advisor would do for the academy I teach at and ultimately the students I would hope to inspire.

An educator is always found seeking ways to enhance the learning process. For years we have looked at the learning process in context trying to figure how students can learn easier and offer different theories of learning styles. The discussion of how students perceive information has always been evaluated while trying to understand how information is processed. I have always been curious how our brains function and have read many articles recommending different techniques of learning.

I will explore the important skills I believe I will need in the 21st century as a primary school educator, I will then explore the experiences of evaluating online sources of academic information. This will then lead onto online collaboration and the advantages and disadvantages of using this as a means of sharing information. This reflective discussion will be reviewing my role as a 21st century learner and professional. I will then lead into how my experience as a consumer, producer and sharer of information for professional and academic communication has changed throughout the course of this unit of study.