Teaching Platform
Aims of education:
- The goal of education is to learn things that you did not already know. The three most important things that I want my students to learn is communication, discipline, and knowledge.
- In my opinion I think students learn by example, modeling and when they can make connections. Most students need visuals or to hear it aloud rather than reading it out of a book. I feel that relating material and content to real life experiences students are able to develop a sense of background knowledge. I can tell if a student has learned by seeing them do it or giving them assessments to test what they have learned.
- My expectations and hopes for my students are to expand their knowledge and to become a better person.
- I would also like to add that I hope my students end up leaving my class wanting to learn as much as they can to reach their full potential.
- Five years after students leave my classroom I want students to say that they learned something in my class and not just what they had to learn but that I taught them other things as well. About the curriculum I want them to say that they enjoyed the curriculum that I taught.
- I think that the community that your school is in plays a huge role in how you teach. If you are in a lower income area, your school might not have the advanced equipment to teach with compared to a higher income area.
- Things I would look for to tell me if I taught a good lesson or a bad lesson are the expression on my students’ faces, having them do what I just taught them, or giving them an assessment to test what they’ve learned and what they haven’t learned.
- Now that I have actually taught a lesson to students, I know that I have taught a good lesson when the students are more involved with their work and they are having fun. Of course not every lesson can be fun, however I plan on incorporating as much fun into my lessons as possible. For example, in my internship, I taught the students about idioms. Instead of just telling them what they are, I read them a book about idioms. I could tell they really enjoyed the book and they were able to identify each one in the story. After I read the book, I decided to do a fun activity to make sure they understood what an idiom is by having them draw a picture that described an idiom of their choice but they couldn’t tell anyone which one they picked. Then the class had to guess which one the students drew. They really enjoyed it and I could tell I taught a good lesson just by looking at their pictures.