Final Thoughts

It has been a great semester! I will be walking away with some great information, that I will be glad to carry into my future classroom.

When it comes to being a great educator there are a few things that I think are extremely important. First, creating relationships. You are the one driving force in that students life for 9 months out of the year, 8 hours a day, 5 days/week. You must understand that student in order to effectively teach them. The second thing would be communication. Communicate, communicate, communicate!!!! Communicate with not only the student, but the parents, principal, other teachers, and other people who interact with that child on a day to day basis such as before and after school staff (me). That way we can all work as a team to help that student succeed. One last thing that is important as an educator is student centered learning. No child wants to sit all day and listen to lecture. Take their opinions into consideration, and tweak your lesson plans to incorporate their ideas. Has my opinion changed since the beginning of the semester? No, not necessarily. It never changes, It just evolves and grows. Working with students daily also helps with this. I take what I learn in the classroom and apply it to my after school program, and I can’t wait to implement it into my classroom.

Looking back this course has helped me prepare for almost every single standard. However, the two that stick out to me would be standard 3 and standard 7.

Standard 3: Teachers understand that children learn differently….. 

This was shown to us in module four dealing with learner diversity. No one student is the same, we all come from different backgrounds. As teachers we need to learn to adapt our classrooms to everyone. I feel that this can also go hand-in-hand with standard 7.

Standard 7: Teachers are able to plan different kinds of lessons….. 

Since all students are different, and all students learn different we need to be able to make all of our students successful members of our classrooms. Some students are visual learners, while others are hands on learners that is why creating a variety of ways to learn a unit is important. Motivation and instruction in module five did a great job of teaching us ways to implement that into our classrooms someday.

Backward’s designing will be taken with me throughout my career. I love being able to start with the final objectives of what I want my students to know, and then deciding how I am going to get them to the end goal. I will continue to research this throughout my college career.

I believe that our blogs were one of the best assignments that we could do. It is important to get ourselves out there for other professionals to see. This can help us gain new ideas from people who have different experiences then us. I will continue to use this blog until I graduate, and even after to always stay up to date on new and improved classroom tips. Good luck, everyone!

Enjoy this cute clip I found about teachers who made a difference!

 

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