Reflection 1: Becoming a teacher: Unpacking the map
When I was younger and first met my two adopted cousins in Sydney I knew they were different. They did not learn the same way I did. They had trouble sitting still and they did not seem like the other children. They both had Autism and needed a lot more care than someone without Autism, yet were stuck in a school that was trying to fit them into mainstream classes with teachers who were not child-focused and just wanted to shift their responsibilities to the next teacher. It was then I realised I wanted to help other children like my cousins.
In year 10 I chose peer tutoring as an elective. I was tutoring children with a variety of disabilities in our Support Unit. I still recall the first time walking into the classroom and meeting Dane, an intelligent boy in year 8 with Autism. It was then I was brought back to thinking about my cousins and how they felt, alone and distraught thinking they were just bad children. The teacher told me he was having an ‘Autistic day’ and not to worry about him. I remember thinking ‘What terrible teachers if they just want to ignore someone because they’re having a rough day’. “Hughes (2004)… emphasises the need for a teacher to have humanity and warmth – to know at all times what students in a class are doing and also to care about what they are doing.” (Marsh, 2010, p. 3). Ignoring the teacher, I sauntered over to Dane, introduced myself and had a look at what he had been doing as well as what I was supposed to be doing with him. All his mathematic answers were incorrect but his working out was correct, I did not understand. Dane laughed at me looking at his answers. I asked him a few mathematical problems on the page, he looked down at the flo...
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When asked Miss.Sarnes had a lot to say about how teaching impacted her life like “Teaching keeps me happy and lets me enjoys most of my day.” She also explained how kids she teached change her life. She told a story about a girl named Emily who she taught many years ago that she still remeber to this day. Miss. Sarnes had just started teaching and she had her first autistic student in her class. Miss. Sarnes did not know how to make sure they were learning everything needed but when Emily was there she helped the autistic students so much and also helped Miss. Sarnes to understand a better way to help autistic student in her class do
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Marsh, C.J. (2010). Becoming a teacher: Knowledge, skills and issues. Frenchs Forest, Sydney, NSW: Pearson Australia
I am an African American female who attends the University of Chicago Charter School, which is located on the South side of Chicago. I am seventeen years old and I live and attend school in a predominantly Black neighborhood. I have seen plenty in my seventeen years of living. My goal is to go to college and become a teacher, so that I can return to Chicago and help the people in my community. In six years, I will be giving back to the community and helping the world become better place. I will help teach kids not to live in stereotypes and let them bring them down.
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When working with students with disabilities in a secondary school setting, these students frequently have a negative views towards school and learning due to their previous struggles and defeats. Combining students academic weaknesses with their social and home lives, makes a powerful recipe for stress on a young adolescent. Statistics from the National Center for Education Statistics report that 30.7 percent of secondary public school teachers report parent involvement as a “serious” issues within education compared to 20.6 percent of their elementary peers or 5.5 percent of their private education peers. Parent involvement and support play a major role in students behavior at school. Working beyond these stressors to focus on academics can often be a challenge for Ms. Burns’ students.
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Becoming a teacher is one of the most dedicated careers out there, which I feel requires a strong passion and plenty of patience when dealing with children. As a teacher there are countless rewards and challenges that I will face. Three rewards and three challenges I will face as a teacher are the intrinsic and extrinsic categories of personal and intellectual rewards, desirable vacations, and teacher work schedules and the challenges of finding a job, complexities of classrooms, and differentiation (Kauchak & Eggen, 2014).
Doctors, lawyers, politicians, and engineers. How did they all get to where they are today? No matter the position someone may hold in society everyone has progressed to where they are in life because they had a teacher, someone who taught them in the way they should go. Teacher as defined in the dictionary as one who instructs. To teach someone is to communicate skills and give instruction. Today I would like to tell you why I would like to become a teacher. Specifically speaking I will tell you what has led me to this decision and why I want to become a teacher.
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‘A teacher is not a friend. Teachers and students have different roles in the classroom and different responsibilities. Being a close friend to student’s conflicts with being a teacher’ (Sara L. Schwebel 2002).
Becoming a teacher has been the ultimate aspiration for myself since the first day I walked into kindergarten. As a very timid student, it was a difficult task transitioning from being with my mother everyday, to being part of a classroom environment full of strangers. However, my kindergarten teacher helped me through this transition smoothly, and adequately. I very quickly learned to love school. Soon after, I knew I would aspire to become a teacher. I would spend countless hours at home with a blackboard, acting as a teacher to my imaginary students throughout my elementary school years.
“Teaching is often a difficult process, but the end result is very rewarding. Watching a child develop confidence and seeing a student progress in their studies is a very exciting process. Teaching young children is especially great because it is setting a foundation for life-long learning.”(Chronicle guidance publications). What is teaching? A teacher is a person who provides education for pupils (children), or students (adults) using lectures, audiovisual aids, demonstrations, and computers to present academic, social, and motor skills. Teachers can also teach foreign languages, art, kids with special needs, and P.E. Teaching has changed a lot compared to the traditional methods of just lectures and textbooks. Students now are encouraged to actively learn through groups or individual projects. They have learning games, debates, and experiments to help them through the learning process. Being a teacher would be a great career for anyone who wants to further themselves, to help people, and to have great benefits (chronicle guidance publications).