Here we are again one
quiz, two papers, and four projects later from last week. I’ve done more
projects and written more papers in these past two months than I ever have in
two years. I feel like every time we finish one project another one pops up
that we have to do. This new one, well it’s kinda two, is one about diversity
and the other is actually teaching the class next week. What’s funny is that
doing the Class Planning project gave me more trouble putting together than what
I’m gonna have to do teaching my content. The only problem I have to confront
isn’t how am I gonna make the lesson longer but how am I gonna size it down to
only thirty minutes. They say if you do what you love,
you'll never work a day in your life and when it comes to anything history related
there’s no such thing as work for me. While some people are going out on the
town and partying, I’m here reading about Churchill, Jefferson, and Cicero. I
love the subject I’m going out to teach; I’m enthusiastic about my content. I
feel like it’s one of the most underrated subjects taught in schools yet it’s
one of the most important. But how do I take my enthusiasm for my content and
make it interesting for my students? With all these projects, quizzes, tests,
and papers I’ve been feeling kinda depressed. But the news that we will be
teaching a lesson on our content actually lifted me up. It’s a good place to
start on critiquing how we’re gonna teach in a nonjudgmental environment that
offers positive criticism on how to improve before you have to go out into the
world and do this thing for real.
Great quote about working! Teaching is absolutely a calling! Great teaching takes work and sacrifice. I think it is great that you are already enthusiastic about teaching your lesson in EDUC 250. We want to see your enthusiasm!
ReplyDeleteNow...here is the challenge...what will you do when you are required to teach content that is not your favorite? What strategies are you researching now so you can engage students all school year? How does this relate to the NCTCS?
Content within my history class, Social Studies, or any subject in school? As for within my own history class I can adapt. I'm well rounded enough to teach almost any of the social studies classes. For any subject, as long as it's not math or science I can adapt. I've been researching new strategies for engaging my students only a few times but I learned some interesting techniques from our class and its use of tech. I've also been visiting edutopia and other sites for ideas. I have to keep up with new techniques and tech. to reach my students, for me not an easy feat. This will most definitely affect how I teach my students. My question is this, how do you know which new tech. or technique to adopt for your classroom. While researching I came across some slightly older posts (2013) from edutopia about new tech. for classes. When I went to do more research on them, a number of them had gone under. These new websites and apps had been praised by education websites and circles for their innovation and new ideas and tech. but within two years were obsolete.
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