Reflection…..
First let me say, I’m glad to be back. I felt like we rushed through the summer session in Curriculum Planning and I am so looking forward to taking a traditional pace course with you. Your teaching style connects with one of the first video clips on the moodle site.
“Learning to Change and Changing to learn"
I found this clip to be enlightening and uplifting. As a new student to the teaching profession, I have seen a division between teachers. It almost seems like some teachers don’t want to change and like the “old style of teaching” and some teachers want to change. I agree with the narrators in the video clip. Our children are exposed to so many different types of stimuli outside of the classroom that we need to find a way to incorporate some of that stimulus into the classroom to maintain the balance necessary to keep them interested. Children are so much more social and technical than ever. Some key points addressed in the clip – we as educators have to accept technology, it’s not a choice. School is only one place that children learn. If they are using technology outside of school we have to have in our schools and incorporate it into their learning. One of the most significant statements for me was “We need to shift students academic experience to prepare them for college and even life.” If we continue to teach in traditional ways and not the way the 21st century is headed we are doing an injustice to the future leaders of our country.
First let me say, I’m glad to be back. I felt like we rushed through the summer session in Curriculum Planning and I am so looking forward to taking a traditional pace course with you. Your teaching style connects with one of the first video clips on the moodle site.
“Learning to Change and Changing to learn"
I found this clip to be enlightening and uplifting. As a new student to the teaching profession, I have seen a division between teachers. It almost seems like some teachers don’t want to change and like the “old style of teaching” and some teachers want to change. I agree with the narrators in the video clip. Our children are exposed to so many different types of stimuli outside of the classroom that we need to find a way to incorporate some of that stimulus into the classroom to maintain the balance necessary to keep them interested. Children are so much more social and technical than ever. Some key points addressed in the clip – we as educators have to accept technology, it’s not a choice. School is only one place that children learn. If they are using technology outside of school we have to have in our schools and incorporate it into their learning. One of the most significant statements for me was “We need to shift students academic experience to prepare them for college and even life.” If we continue to teach in traditional ways and not the way the 21st century is headed we are doing an injustice to the future leaders of our country.
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