Being in the classroom makes you truly understand what teachers deal with. So many students here at Fredonia are going to school for education and a lot of them take it very seriously and really enjoy it, but I see a lot of other students not taking it very seriously and just sliding by. When I see those people I think, "Oh well teaching must be a breeze someday. All you must do is teach a cirriculum from a book." Well that thought was entirely wrong. From tutoring I have been able to see first-hand all of the hard work teachers do every minute of every hour of every day. They must always be critically thinking incase their plan backfires or the students are acting up.
Another thing that I am in the process of learning, which teachers seem to do very well, is explaining. I have watched my teacher find the best ways to explain how to do addition and subtraction, how to combine two sentences so that you don't plagerize, and much more. I have such trouble trying to explain things to students, but with my tutoring placement I have learned so many things that will be so helpful to me in my speech pathology career. I also gained a whole new aspect of respect for teachers!
I am very glad that I was able to be a part of something like this!
I feel the same way about those people who just slide by. I'm not sure how they get anything done effectively. Those people make me mad because you must learn so much and apply all of that to teaching. Teaching from a book will never get a teacher anywhere, nowadays. We have to think of numerous amounts of strategies and ways to apply information to help students understand the material. What you said about your teacher explaining is also awesome. From experience, the ability to come up with all of these different explanations comes in hand. I can't wait until I am able to do that well!
ReplyDeleteI am so happy you brought this up! One of my housemates is a business major and he always laughs at me and my other roommates because we are constantly doing work for education. Then he tells us that we work so much harder than him and he'll still get a higher paying job. The only thing that keeps me sane is remembering that I will LOVE what I do while he's stuck under someone else's thumb. Just stay positive!
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