This blog will be full of information about my journey through Gardner-Webb's School of Education. Yes, this blog was created to fulfill a requirement in a class, BUT it is so much more than that! It is my journey to becoming an elementary school teacher!
So far in my School of Education (SOE) career, I have only been to 3 days of education class. My first reactions have been both excitement and nervousness! Dr. Clark and Dr. Parker have both done a great job of engaging us as students in their classroom. For example, on the first day of class instead of having us sit in our chairs and introduce ourselves to each other, they put us in groups and sent us out to do an activity. This activity included running around campus and completing tasks. The whole purpose of this was to facilitate the development of relationships between us students! I loved how they did this in a new and interesting way - not the traditional introductory class. This got us up and moving around! Studies even show that there is a link between exercise and cognitive function. So, getting us moving during class helped us to stay engaged through the rest of the class time. Over my years in school, I have definitely seen the effects of staying seated too long in class. It results in disengaged, uninterested students.
As well as keeping us engaged during class, Clarker has done a great job of presenting the learning material to us. The way the material has been taught has left me feeling comfortable with the process of unpacking standards.After much discussion and practice during today's class, I feel confident to look at standards and unpack them myself! I know that this will be not only useful but extremely necessary in my future classroom. Clarker has helped me to be able to understand what my responsibility is as the teacher and what the goals for my students are! I will have to go through the NCSCOS and be able to understand every aspect of the document. As teachers in North Carolina, we will be expected to be able to look at the standards and understand what our students need to leave with.
I am so excited to continue with my journey to become an educator! I am intrigued by Clarker's teaching style and I am excited to learn from them in a way that will hopefully benefit my future classroom.
Our teaching style is definitely different! I am glad you are enjoying the class and learning so much already! This is great.
ReplyDeleteHey Kieran, I really share a similar thought with you about how we have been engaged greatly in our Educ. 250 classes. I believe this is the best way to really get us good at our future profession. I was super nervous when I started the class but now that we are a few days in I am not as nervous as I was! I hope this semester is a good semester for all of us.
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