American Education 10/20

This week we talked about law and ethics dealing with class and how to motivate our students. The best suggestion they had was to motivate our students by complimenting them and when we need to help them with improvements we need to remember the 4 to 1 rule. The rule that says for ever negative comment we make we need to say 4 positive ones. Also we need to remember not to be to harsh with our negative comments but helpful. I feel like as a future teacher this is very important to remember because I want to install in children a desire to learn and encourage them to learn. I don't want to be the reason they hate school so much because I'm too negative. I also feel like now a days people should remember this because we live in such a pessimistic world. Also we talked about having enough material to cover all the information. That is pretty self explanatory and something we as teachers need to pay attention to.

American Foundation 10/13/08

From class today I have thought a lot about children not socializing as much due to technology. As a teacher I want to encourage my children to work together. I want to have them work in groups, pairs and as a class so they are able to discuss and spend time together. However I don't feel like technology is evil or destroys socializing so I plan on using as much of it as I can in my classrooms. When it comes to me taking classes or updating information online I would if they presented information for my career or if I found information I was interested in. I feel like this is a great opportunity for some people especially stay at home moms to continue to gain more knowledge.

American Education 10/06/08

This week 2 representatives from UEA came to help us to understand the rights and resources we have as a teacher. I never realized all the rights I had entitled to me as a teacher. I knew their were rights out there but I didn't know the communities participated in them so much. The cops who shop with students in needs. I think this would be good. I also didn't know that I could discuss my contract in many ways or so in-depth. I think that the UEA is a great cause and I could see myself joining them when I'm a teacher.

American Education Foundation 9/29

From the reading I was quite confused about teaching to the child and the whole man or citizen. I feel like as a teacher that what's important is teaching the students the most we can while not making it to boring. He talked about how the child learned from hands on experience. I feel like that is something I would use in my classroom because that is how I learned. Although I know it is important to teach to all ways of learning children need to learn by doing somethings themselves. I also like the St. Augustine writing don't just want to stand and talk at the children. I want to allow students to freely express themselves in my classrooms and feel comfortable being themselves. That is something I will take from our discussion and reading, children are children not adults. They don't need to be talked to or treated as such.