When visiting the website called, "Educators Rising" I was at first kind of confused about what this was going to do to help me, but after finally searching through the whole website I actually learned some pretty interesting things. I learned the standards of teaching which said: "The seven standards define what high school students exploring teaching need to know and be able to do to take their first steps on the path to accomplished teaching. The standards represent a new, shared vision from the field; the teaching profession is mapping the front end of a coherent continuum, from the initial exploratory phase to entry into the profession to becoming an accomplished practitioner. Standard I: Understanding the Profession Standard II: Learning About Students Standard III: Building Content Knowledge Standard IV: Engaging in Responsive Planning Standard V: Implementing Instruction Standard VI: Using Assessment and Data Standard VII: Engaging in Reflective Practice" After learning these 7 steps I realized the steps to becoming a teacher are long and very persistent but they are important attributes to being an inspirational and admiring teacher who can help to shape the minds of children. My favorite quote that they said was, "The journey to accomplish teaching is a marathon" which I can tell is so true but just like after a race, the reward or metal will make it all worth it! These 7 steps will help me to continue my process in education and will help me when I have a future in education.
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1/22/2017 0 Comments After high school goals......I am anticipating and also dreading the day I graduate high school. I am so excited to go to college and experience becoming an adult, but I am also very sad to leave my MNHS family and my family at home. After graduation my goals are to:
The steps I am planning to take in order to achieve my goals are:
I made this vision board that represents everything that I strive for in the next 10 years:
As excited as I am to become a teacher in the future I am a little nervous about the challenges that await me while getting there. I think that discipline is a big problem that I have to face and am already facing now in student teaching. On Shmoop.com there is a page titled "The Top 10 Challenges of Being a Teacher" and it talks about the challenge of discipline by saying, "Figuring out how to cope with arguments by listening to both sides, dealing with disruptive students, and calming down a whole class (or, on the flip side, waking them up) is the endless task of keeping your class in control, and possibly the biggest challenge most teachers deal with on a day-to-day basis." Especially in the afternnoon, I have seen how the students are very energetic and ready to go home so getting them to focus until the bell and trying to get them to listen to you in general is challenging, specifically with the younger grades. Classroom management can be very difficult and overwhelming for first time teachers but hopefully along the way I will grasp ways to keep my students on task. I would describe myself as an outgoing and overall an easy to get along with person but I have noticed over the years that sometimes I can be a bit stubborn in my ways and flexibility with my work ethic can be cahllengeing. I dont like to take risks and sometimes think that all the work needs to be done in one way of it's going to not work. I hope to learn how to maybe be a leader by letting others work and lead too. Being in a grade level with other teachers of the same age group might start off as cahllenging but I think it can grow to be beneficital by helping me to learn how to let others help!
In school your presence is very important even though there are resources now a days such as videos or FaceTime that can help students who are absent in order for them to catch up on what they've missed. Being absent overall does impact a students ability to reach success at school because class is suppose to be the time where you learn and so missing school days is not recommended. For me, I have missed quit a few of school days through my high school and even my earlier middle school days due to medical and health issues and I can tell you from first hand experience that coming back to school after having missed 1 or 2 or even a week of school is very stressful for the student and even the teacher. Having to juggle and balance 7 periods along with possibly work in every class can be very hard to handle. As a teacher, their/our job is to help catch those students up and after visiting and reading articles on the website, Absences Add Up (linked below), I have come to see that there are many steps a teacher or even a parent can do to help a child that has struggled with attendence. I like how the website suggests a mentor, seeing that: "Inside and outside of school, mentors can have an invaluable and lasting impact on their mentees. Studies show that kids who have a mentor tend to have better relationships with their families, are more likely to make better relationship and lifestyle choices, and are less likely to use drugs or engage in violent behavior." Seeing how some students can miss school for reasons such as emotional or mental health I think having that extra set of ears helping to give advice and overall just being a friend is a good idea. Strategies such as making sure the students understand attendance from day one and making sure to talk about attendance at parent- teacher conference helps to assure that you, the teacher, are doing all you can to emphasize the need to be at school as much as possible. Located on the website, "Absences add up", there is recommendations on things, as a teacher, you can do to help students understand the concept of attendance. I especially like a visual representation, like a poster, in the room that explains it. Having incentives like rewards can make students want to come to school every day while games can also make attendance seem like a fun concept to learn and do.
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