Speech : A Teacher 's Advisor For Menahga

I interviewed a teacher that teaches in my high school in Menahga. Mrs. Ness teacher Agriculture classes and is the FFA advisor for Menahga. She was my FFA advisor my freshman year of college and started teaching at Menahga the year after I graduated. She is a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota, Crookston. She has been teaching in Menahga for three years. Over holiday break, I observed her classroom for a week. It was an open environment in which students seemed to be learning and were open for discussion about a variety of topics. Her father was my agriculture teacher and FFA advisor for many years. I chose to interview her because everyone seems to like her as a teacher and she is a new teacher. Many agriculture teachers, that I know, have been teaching for many years and are “set” in their ways. She is experiencing many things that I will experience as a new teacher. I hope to also teach in a small school back home and she has that experience. She grew up in the area and came back to teach. She has been a role model for me for many years.

A teacher must understand how students learn and develop and must provide learning opportunities that support a student’s intellectual, social and personal development.

A teacher has the ability to influence students’ in so many ways. Teacher’s can influence their students’ social, emotional, and cognitive development. Teacher’s must also identify that they are a part of the microsystems of each of their students. The other students in the class are also a part of the students microsystems and can influence the students in so many ways, positively or negatively.

Mrs. Ness talked about her class being different than other classes. She teaches classes that are electives and very exp...

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...nces in students abilities and where they are at. This could be different for each subject area and each student will have a different scaffolding built. Some students will have the base knowledge, some may know a lot, and some may not know a thing.

Mrs. Ness talked about how in her classes, students come in with all different skill levels. Some students have been working in a welding shop for years and are better at welding then she is. She also has students who have never welded in their life. Each of her students start with a different level of scaffolding. Mrs. Ness likes to use peer-assisted learning. When she pairs the students who are doing really well with the ones that are struggling, they learn from each other. She has found that with fifteen to twenty students, she cannot help everyone at once and this is a way for everyone to get help when they need it.