My Main Goals
My main goal for this class is to learn how to better support literacy in my future classroom by gaining a better appreciation for the subject. Literacy is not, and never has been, one of my favorite subjects in school. To gain a better appreciation for literacy in this class I will learn to find new methods to use in my future classroom which will make my lesson more exciting by observing literacy in my field placement and I will also start to build up a classroom library by finding pieces of literature that I find interesting. By the end of this semester I hope to be more excited about literacy, because if I am not excited about literacy then how can my students?
Another one of my goals for this semester is to learn ways which will help me develop my ideal classroom community in my classroom someday. To do this I want to learn how to extend the learning they do in the classroom to their parents and their environment and to also develop an environment inside my classroom which is encouraging and supportive. I would like to learn how to make my classroom a place where my future students look forward to coming to. This means that learning in the class can and should be fun, and that each student are not afraid of offering their opinions, participating in class, or working with their other classmates.
Another one of my goals is to find out the type of teaching philosophy I want to have in my classroom. I want to make my teaching real to my kids. By this I mean that I want to use what my student already know or what they can relate with into what I am teaching. By using or relating what they already know to class material will help the students understand why they are leaning what they are, why it is important, and show them as a teacher that the material is both fascinating and important. I also want to be a very diverse teacher as far as the way I teach. I would like to develop strategies and advice on how to meet with every students learning style the best I can. This means having visual learning, group work, class work, kinesthetic work, etc… all incorporated into my lessons.
My last goals for this semester is to become a more professional and organized person. I am becoming a teacher because I love the energy and curiosity of children. However, I have to make the transition of being a ‘friend’ to being a teacher. I have to become more professional and make the transition from being Andy to Mr. Schiller. This means becoming more organized for this class, my other classes, and my classroom. It has been a fun ride while it lasted, but I think it is time I make the transition into who and what I thought I may be like as a future teacher, to actually becoming that teacher. That means for this class in particular meeting and exceeding the expectations of my teachers, my classmates, and my students to the best of my ability.
2 comments:
Welcome to the big leagues. I vividly remember the first time disaster struck in my classroom and I spun around to look for an adult to take care of it. Imagine my terror when I realized I was the most grown up/mature person in the room. It's hard not to position yourself as their friends, and at times you will need to play that role. But, the most important thing to kids is that they know that there is a difference between you and their other friends in that, when it comes down to it, you're there to make sure that everything is ok and have the adult skill set to do that. As for liking literacy...I think a lot of people who think they don't like literacy just think of reading stories. Literacy is reading menus, authoring websites, interpretting sports scores, reading directions for a science experiment, interpretting song lyrics, etc. A lot of people become disengaged in literacy because it is presented to them in a narrow, isolated way that they can't see carrying over into the tasks that they want or need to do. Push yourself, as we go through the semester, to look for literacy in unexpected places.
I really like how Andy mentioned developing his ideal classroom community. I agree that getting parents and the community involved in a students learning is important. Students need to see that everything in their life is connected in some way. I also think that by getting parents involved helps students to see how important their learning is and helps the students to see that their parents truly care about their learning. Andy also mentioned wanting to have a classroom where his students feel safe to share their opinions, I agree that this is extremely important in order for all students to participate and learn.
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