September 22, 2014

1. Teaching shouldn't be looked at as a science or an art, but as a combination of both.

Learned in my educational psych class it is important to look at education from both a scientific and artistic standpoint. Scientific as you should analyze students individually. Meaning, their learning style, how to grasp there attention, how and why it works, However, at the same time it is of utmost importance to to incorporate all learning styles into lesson plans, this is where the artistic aspect of education comes into play. The mind is a canvas that you as a teacher have to leave a masterpiece on, with a personalized signature. What I mean is, to be a great teacher, you have to instill the information the student needs to know, so that they not only know it but can retain it. You as the teacher have to leave your knowledge in the students long term memory. 

2. Being an educator is has the most hidden responsibilities. 

As a teacher one should be well aware of how to distinguish one student from another. To be able to analyze a student and figure out how to fix whats wrong if there is a problem. If a student is having trouble reading, writing, spelling, learning, or paying attention it is because somewhere along the line a prior teacher has missed the problem, or noticed it and failed to fix it. Parents are always learned in what to look for if there child isn't keeping up, but going through education courses myself, I am learning of different indicators of a child's learning disability. For example, if a student cannot read correctly by the fourth grade, is it the child's fault? Of course its option to blame the kid, but what teacher failed to make reading interesting enough for the child. What teacher possibly overlooked a child with dyslexia, and just made the assumption the child did not want to read. What child was left behind in the lower level reading group because the teacher failed to pick up on this problem. What teacher kicked the student out of the classroom because he/she would refuse to embarrass themselves in front of the class because they cant read right. So as stated early, I learned that educators need to be aware of their students and the responsibilities that come with them. 

3.Love what you do. 

As stated earlier, education has a lot of responsibilities. If a teacher doesn't love what they do then why are they leaving themselves as a deciding factor in a child's life. I've had a few teachers over my student career that seemed not so exuberant about their job. No child deserves to spend 180 days with an educator that doesn't want to educate. No one will prosper from that situation. Students could end up giving up on a subject or school for that matter because they feel as though their teacher doesn't care. So, overall it is very important that when going into a teaching position the teacher love what he or she does, and essentially anyone going into any career should feel that way. 

4. Don't be afraid to ask for help.

I'm such a big offender of this, but it is very important to seek help when necessary. Education is a career that entitles being around plenty of people with vast amounts of stored knowledge. Some with wisdom on their resume from personal experiences and age. These peers you will acquire are resources that a teacher can use at their disposal. If as a future educator you find yourself in a situation with school related matters, like helping a student with a personal matter, it might be wise to ask other educators how they were able to help a student with the same problem. This way you can add this method to your repertoire for future instances. 

5. Disciplining student is necessary.

Eventually there will be a student that crosses the line and has to be punished. The teacher will have to deal with a few things in this situation. How to handle the student, the student's parents, and how to justify themselves before the school superiors. The student needs to be handled correctly, punished justly for what he or she has said or done. Students's parents will most likely find out about their child, and will be upset with how you handled the situation. Here you will need to be able to justify your actions as a teacher. And, finally to the superiors as to why you did what you did. No proper explanation could result negatively for said teacher.

September 17, 2014

So I'm not too sure on what to write about, so this is all going to snowball into one big cluster of nonsense. I really wasn't focused on school so much these last two weeks, not that I've fallen behind in my studies, but I'm just not back into school mode yet. However, all of my classes so far have been pretty cool. The teachers all seem interesting. But, I do have this teacher who only uses the most erudite of vocabulary. I can hardly keep up with what he says. But, yea, all of my other classes aren't too bad. This INTC class seems to be pretty fun so far. I feel like Google and a lot of the stuff we're working on in class will really help out with the rest of my schedule. I've already found use of Google Drive in my perceptional psych class. We have a group project that I believe is a perfect fit for its uses. I'm pretty excited to see what else I can find useful from this class. So far what I've gotten from class is that Google has all of these applications that are the simplistic versions of so many programs we worked thoroughly on back in junior high and high school. For example to make a website we used Adobe. Adobe was such a painstaking process just too write code. Now it's a matter of clicking a few buttons to create one. Google Docs is the free version of Microsoft Word, and the same goes for Microsoft PowerPoint with Google slides. Not too mention everything saves itself to the cloud automatically. Come on now, who's yanking my chain and making all of the easy to use necessary tools available for free at my disposal. I almost regretting buying Microsoft Office after taking this class. They should teach you this kind of stuff back in high school.

September 3, 2014

My Web Page


I created the above link in my INTC2610 class today. It was kind of cool making a website, something I haven't done since my sophomore year of high school. Today was my first day at Stockton it was pretty interesting. For not being familiar with the campus I made it around without getting lost pretty well. I honestly had no clue what to expect at Stockton after transferring from Atlantic Cape Community College. It does not seem so different minus the fact that the college and student is much larger. I think that I'll have a great time in the next two years getting my BA from Stockton. However enough about my day, and more about my time spent in INTC2610. So far it was a pretty interesting class. When arriving to the class I was decently comfortable since I actually knew one person in class. I wasn't fond of the introduction thing that I've been doing in every class since 1st grade, some how after all the years of practice i still froze up and blurted out something stale and was happy that my turn my over. My friend Ernie and I became partners since we sat next each other. However for the first  thirty minutes of class almost everybody couldn't gain access to the school server. No worries though, the tech guy came through and fixed everything kind of. It all worked itself out after a while. During the small crisis the teacher seemed to have a back up plan, going over what she could with out everyone having access to the internet. Then when things finally started working we did a multitude of things, ranging from creating a website, to this blog, to taking a quiz on the syllabus, and a survey about our technology background. So far I'd say today was a success, couldn't be anymore happier to see how the rest of the semester goes.