1. I want to be a good teacher. No, I want to be a great teacher. I have so much passion for learning; I am always trying to teach others what I know or found out. So, to be a great teacher, I need to know the best teaching methods, and integrating technology into the classroom is becoming a larger and larger part of the curriculum in schools. It's changing so rapidly that even from the time that I was in middle school to now, having my eleven-year-old sister in middle school, there is much more technology being incorporated into what the students are learning. I want to learn how to be a great teacher, and that is the only expectation I have for this class.
2. I hope for my classmates to be open to new ideas, friendly, and motivated. We should all be able to collaborate and bounce ideas off of each other. I feel like teaching is one of the few professions where collaboration outweighs competition, and that as future teachers, we need to know how to work with each other.
3. I am liking what I am seeing when it comes to the instructor. He seems passionate and very open-minded, which are two qualities I consider very admirable. I hope he is able to teach me not only how to integrate technology into curriculum, but also how to command a room of students, how to continually engage them, how to get them to learn from you.
4. Do you think it's important for a teacher to have some sense of charisma to be an effective teacher? Do you think that this has something that has only really started to become important?
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Aisha,
ReplyDeleteI have enjoyed reading your posts and seeing your thinking on display. I think learning Journals would be handy in ELI courses as a way of assessing student progress. What do you think?
I noticed you're missing a post on Chapter 1 of our text. Please make sure to include it. Try not to let these journal entries slip by you. Playing catch-up only gets more difficult as the term goes by.
-cds