I thought the inquiry celebration was a lot more helpful to me than last year. Last year I was too early in the program to see the how important the research really is. I wish I would have taken it more seriously last year, because it would have helped me conduct my research for this year. I have already taken a lot of information from the interns of ideas and how to improve myself as an educator and my researches. I look at the interns and realize that will be me next year, and it gets me that much more excited to want to start my intern year and be that person I have been looking up to for two years at the inquiry celebrations.
I have already thought of my research for next year because of the presentations. I took into consideration a lot of the points the interns made, and made notes about them so I will not forget them when I start my teachings next year.
All of the presenters did an amazing job. They seem so professional and they all had great researches that were all very interesting. I cannot believe that will be me in a short few months!
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Characteristics of a Novice Teacher
To me, finding good artifacts that fall under the characteristics is difficult. But, I thought characteristic #4 and #6 were good characteristics to discuss.
Characteristic #4 states:"We believe the novice teacher should be a facilitator of learning for all students. " From almost every one of my education classes, we have talked about how to differentiate learning for all students. I am a firm believer that every student is different, not every student learns the same, and just because one lesson works for one class, does not mean it is going to work for all. There is no "one size fits all" in education. Almost every single lesson I teach, I give them options as to how to accomplish it. My options would include: writing on the smartboard, writing on the blackboard, working in groups, working individually, writing the sentences out, or saying them out loud. I always ask students for their opinion about how they think I should teach the lesson. I like to hear what they have to say so that they are giving opinions and having choices in the class.
Characteristic #6 states: "We believe that the novice teacher should have in-depth knowledge of content."I think this characteristic is very important because I believe that you cannot be a great educator if you do not have in-depth knowledge of their content. Students will not feel comfortable in a classroom if their teacher is not comfortable with the subject. If I got thrown into a Math or Science class, I would freak out. I would have no clue what to do and that would greatly effect how my students viewed me and their education. Students look up to teachers more than we realize, and if they see how good we are at something, they are going to want to be good at it also. I know that my students love to correct me on something that I say or write, if they call me out for something I did wrong, I give them a bonus point for paying attention and knowing the error and how to correct it. One of my artifacts that I have for this would me my thematic units from a few of my classes. It has plenty of lesson plans with authentic artifacts and differentiated lesson for everybody.
Characteristic #4 states:"We believe the novice teacher should be a facilitator of learning for all students. " From almost every one of my education classes, we have talked about how to differentiate learning for all students. I am a firm believer that every student is different, not every student learns the same, and just because one lesson works for one class, does not mean it is going to work for all. There is no "one size fits all" in education. Almost every single lesson I teach, I give them options as to how to accomplish it. My options would include: writing on the smartboard, writing on the blackboard, working in groups, working individually, writing the sentences out, or saying them out loud. I always ask students for their opinion about how they think I should teach the lesson. I like to hear what they have to say so that they are giving opinions and having choices in the class.
Characteristic #6 states: "We believe that the novice teacher should have in-depth knowledge of content."I think this characteristic is very important because I believe that you cannot be a great educator if you do not have in-depth knowledge of their content. Students will not feel comfortable in a classroom if their teacher is not comfortable with the subject. If I got thrown into a Math or Science class, I would freak out. I would have no clue what to do and that would greatly effect how my students viewed me and their education. Students look up to teachers more than we realize, and if they see how good we are at something, they are going to want to be good at it also. I know that my students love to correct me on something that I say or write, if they call me out for something I did wrong, I give them a bonus point for paying attention and knowing the error and how to correct it. One of my artifacts that I have for this would me my thematic units from a few of my classes. It has plenty of lesson plans with authentic artifacts and differentiated lesson for everybody.
Monday, 13 February 2012
Characteristics of a Novice Teacher
The two artifacts that I am proud of are: the survey I handed out to my students and my journal.
I have always been a very outgoing and friendly person. So, I knew that teaching would be a great career for me. I can talk for hours and never get bored with a conversation. I have always thought of myself as a great communicator. Not only do I talk very well, I am a great listener and am always open to new ideas.
I chose these two things because the survey that I handed out to my students for them to fill out, reflects on characteristic #2- The novice teacher should be an effective communicator. These two go together because I am getting to know my students more than just simply talking to them in the classroom. I wanted to hand out a survey for them to fill out so I can get to know them on a more personal level without being invasive and possibly embarrassing them by sitting with them in the middle of class and asking them what their favorite music was. Not all students respond that well to a teacher sitting with them and just having a conversation with them. Some students think that is "uncool".
No matter what has happened throughout the day, I always sit down and reflect on what I was thankful for during the day, and what I could have done differently. If something is upsetting me, I always reflect on that certain situation and think of ways that I can improve it or if there was anything I could do to fix it.
Characteristic #9 - The novice teacher should be a reflective practitioner. Being a reflective practitioner is a great quality to have in a teacher. An artifact that I am very proud of for this characteristic is my journal. I take very detailed notes and reflections at the end of each teaching day. Somedays, all I have is praise for the day and the students and other days, I am upset by a few things that have happened but never let it show to my students or my teacher and I just simply write it down and reflect on why I was upset and what I could have done differently. If I don't have time to write down what happened that day right after I'm done teaching, I make a voice memo to myself so that I won't forget what happened and important things to say.
I think that both of these characteristics go hand in hand because, you can't have good reflections if you are not communicating with the students to find out what is going on with them and their learning. Both of these are very important to become a great educator.
I have always been a very outgoing and friendly person. So, I knew that teaching would be a great career for me. I can talk for hours and never get bored with a conversation. I have always thought of myself as a great communicator. Not only do I talk very well, I am a great listener and am always open to new ideas.
I chose these two things because the survey that I handed out to my students for them to fill out, reflects on characteristic #2- The novice teacher should be an effective communicator. These two go together because I am getting to know my students more than just simply talking to them in the classroom. I wanted to hand out a survey for them to fill out so I can get to know them on a more personal level without being invasive and possibly embarrassing them by sitting with them in the middle of class and asking them what their favorite music was. Not all students respond that well to a teacher sitting with them and just having a conversation with them. Some students think that is "uncool".
No matter what has happened throughout the day, I always sit down and reflect on what I was thankful for during the day, and what I could have done differently. If something is upsetting me, I always reflect on that certain situation and think of ways that I can improve it or if there was anything I could do to fix it.
Characteristic #9 - The novice teacher should be a reflective practitioner. Being a reflective practitioner is a great quality to have in a teacher. An artifact that I am very proud of for this characteristic is my journal. I take very detailed notes and reflections at the end of each teaching day. Somedays, all I have is praise for the day and the students and other days, I am upset by a few things that have happened but never let it show to my students or my teacher and I just simply write it down and reflect on why I was upset and what I could have done differently. If I don't have time to write down what happened that day right after I'm done teaching, I make a voice memo to myself so that I won't forget what happened and important things to say.
I think that both of these characteristics go hand in hand because, you can't have good reflections if you are not communicating with the students to find out what is going on with them and their learning. Both of these are very important to become a great educator.
Sunday, 9 October 2011
South America
1) What I didn’t know about the countries before the lesson was the names of the capitals.
2) What I knew before the lesson was that Chile is very long and right along the coast.
3) What I learned from the lesson was all of the capitals of Bolivia, Chile, Venezuela, Mexico and Guatemala. Also, I learned about all of the cool foods they eat there!
4) One question I still have is: who is the president? Or, who rules those countries?
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Blog Effectiveness
I think that blogging is pretty effective. I think it is great to see what other people have to say about their experiences and their views. I love being able to get ideas off of my peers on how to improve my lessons and my teaching. Their feedback and advice always helps! When my partner, Jackie, comments, she is always helpful and let's me know how she feels about what I have wrote. It is great to have somebody always giving feedback and reading what you have to say because it not only helps for me to read what a peer has written and to see her views, but to see what I can improve and change about mine.
It is great to communicate with my seminar facilitator and PDS faculty for the fact that it helps keep a relationship with them so I'm not just a name, but they actually know me and what I believe when it comes to education. Also, they are the best people to help us out with improvement because they have the most experience, and they know how to make our teaching the most effective.
I think that blogs that really allow us to reflect and reassess our views and thinking are the best type of blogs. It allows us to really take the time and sit back and think about examples and why blogging is important.
Jackie.. What do you think are the best type of blog postings for somebody to do?
It is great to communicate with my seminar facilitator and PDS faculty for the fact that it helps keep a relationship with them so I'm not just a name, but they actually know me and what I believe when it comes to education. Also, they are the best people to help us out with improvement because they have the most experience, and they know how to make our teaching the most effective.
I think that blogs that really allow us to reflect and reassess our views and thinking are the best type of blogs. It allows us to really take the time and sit back and think about examples and why blogging is important.
Jackie.. What do you think are the best type of blog postings for somebody to do?
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Learning Goals
One of my learning goals is to have students be able to have conversations in Spanish on what they have learned. I have this as a learning goal because I think that it is not only important to know another language, but to be able to speak it also. I am working towards this goal by trying to only speak in Spanish in the classroom, so that they are learning to understand to translate what I am saying. I am having them repeat answers and try to make up answers on their own in Spanish so they are learning to create sentences and say them outloud.
I have added speaking the majority of the time in Spanish. I will speak in Spanish, and if it is something that I need to make sure they are understanding the assignment, I'll repeat in English so that they are hearing it in Spanish, and English.
I think that honestly, I'm a little behind. Since I made the plan, I haven't had much time in front of the classroom to work on my lessons. I am at a slow start, but I have confidence that I'll be able to complete them. I have started all of my lessons, but I haven't completely finished them. Each day I am learning more and more from my PDS and especially my host teacher, on how to run the classroom and teach, so I am not only trying to complete what I want done, but what I need to get done and observing my teacher on how I can learn from her and become a better teacher in the future.
I have added speaking the majority of the time in Spanish. I will speak in Spanish, and if it is something that I need to make sure they are understanding the assignment, I'll repeat in English so that they are hearing it in Spanish, and English.
I think that honestly, I'm a little behind. Since I made the plan, I haven't had much time in front of the classroom to work on my lessons. I am at a slow start, but I have confidence that I'll be able to complete them. I have started all of my lessons, but I haven't completely finished them. Each day I am learning more and more from my PDS and especially my host teacher, on how to run the classroom and teach, so I am not only trying to complete what I want done, but what I need to get done and observing my teacher on how I can learn from her and become a better teacher in the future.
Friday, 4 February 2011
Digital Story
Some ideas that I have been thinking about for my Digital story would be how to make learning about a different culture interesting and help teach the students not to be biased against the other cultures. A lot of my students live on a dirt road and farms, they don't have very much culture diversity and some of them are very negative against different cultures because they haven't been opened up to them before. I would like to show them that different isn't bad, that they can learn something from them!
I think that the best type of stories from PDS's would be the stories that you learn from the students. I think that we can learn a lot from these students. I want to introduce the students to a variety of different cultures, provide lessons, feildtrips and fun games to the students. I think that by giving the students opportunities to learn about different places, they will carry that on with them forever.
I think that using digital media is a great lesson, I know that I am so much more interested in the lesson when I can see images and videos. By providing videos and pictures, people not only get to hear the experience, but can put a visual in their mind.
I think that the best type of stories from PDS's would be the stories that you learn from the students. I think that we can learn a lot from these students. I want to introduce the students to a variety of different cultures, provide lessons, feildtrips and fun games to the students. I think that by giving the students opportunities to learn about different places, they will carry that on with them forever.
I think that using digital media is a great lesson, I know that I am so much more interested in the lesson when I can see images and videos. By providing videos and pictures, people not only get to hear the experience, but can put a visual in their mind.
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