First Teaching Position
Name DeAnna Martin
This research aims to analyze information concerning the rewards and challenges a teacher would face in his or her career. As a teacher, there are several things I am aware of that one would experience on daily basis. Rewards and challenges are among the encounters in the teaching career (Kauchak, 2005). They are very common and unavoidable in teaching career. Rewards come obviously; just seeing the children learn new things and grow in knowledge appears to be the greatest and best reward of all. However, challenges arise in ever size and shape. From the distressed and neglected kids to the frustrated ones. Nevertheless, where a challenge exists, comes a bigger reward in the long run.
The environment of teaching is full of disputes, from the
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Teaching has many complexities, with decision making and different experiences every day. Most of the challenges I would expect to face in my career is silence and hostile students Paterson, 2005). Sometimes, the silence in a classroom can reduce a teacher 's motivation in teaching. Nevertheless, to ensure this challenge does not affect my student 's performance, I would engage the strategy of heated debate and discussion to ensure that all students are participating in the classroom.
Another challenge is student 's excuses. Some students have lame excuses especially when it comes to finishing assignments, and they have not finished. For instance, I expect to face excuses such as I was locked in the dormitory, I was sick and could not finish the assignment on time. To solve this challenge, I would ensure that I engage a discussion with students about time management, accountability, and fairness.
The third challenge would be grade complaints. Some students may complain of having lower grades than expected. To avoid such scenarios, I would discuss with the students what I would expect in
Leo argues that a lively debate is crucial to education, as it encourages “intellectual roughhouse” and allows people to challenged by, and become open to new ideas and discussion topics. Leo provides an example of a fellow columnist who agrees with him; E.J. Dionne has told his class at Georgetown that he encourages debating without fear from dominant groups.
The issue I alluded to during our conversation does not simply deal with one assignment. It is an issue I've experienced multiple times throughout high school and is most egregious in your class. This issue is the fact that different students are graded differently based on some arbitrary measure. When a teacher grades each student's assignment to a different standard, it devalues the work of the students.
There has always been a great deal of value placed on class discussions and open communication between peers in elementary classrooms. The benefits of effective communication in the classroom have been researched and proven many times over. As a result of this association between talk and success, silence has come to acquire a negative connotation. These negative feelings that educators have toward silence in their classrooms is causing an oversight of the potential benefits it has to offer. The research provided in this paper aims to change the way educators perceive silence and encourage teachers to rethink the amount of importance they place on talking. This research will define two different types of silence and discuss the benefits that it can have on students. It will then cover several ways that teachers can use silence productively in their classrooms.
The job of a teacher is never easy but we have seen how cooperative discipline and enabling students to feel capable, connected and contributing can improve classroom management and maybe even our own moods. If we create an environment of mutual respect and give our students legitimate power of voice and choice in the classroom we will see positive results in improved student behavior and student achievement. Because when our students believe that they can succeed, they will.
Teaching is one of the most well-known professions all around the world. However, it is also extremely underestimated, especially when it comes to teaching elementary school students. Jenny Peters, writer of the article Confessions of An Elementary School Teacher, observes that it is indeed a “challenging career” that in the end has “immeasurable rewards” (1). However, no matter what you have to do, it seems as though those rewards overrule anything and everything as long as your heart is in it, not only for the students, but for the drive to teach them and lead them to bigger and brighter futures.
Huberman divided teaching careers into stages, depicted by years in the field. Each career stage was thought to be a significant phase in the “teacher lifecycle”, similar to lifecycle stages of an individual; infancy, toddler, pre-schooler, school age, adolescent, young adult, and so forth. These stages were divided as follows: 1-3 years, 4-6 years, 7-18 years, 19-30 years, and 31-40 years of teaching service. Huberman (1989) asked 160 participants to reflect on their career trajectories, identify distinct phases, and attach original thematic titles to each. Aside from the structure of placing their career stories into phases, there were no constraints on participants who could choose any theme, sequence, and configuration of features. Data
Issues arise when the expectation does not meet the reality, or due to misinformation. The various issues an average student might be classified as follows.
Task/Activity: Since it was “Career Day” during Spirit Week, it should be noted that students were rather “hyped up” and class was rather leisurely in anticipation of the upcoming schoolwide events taking place both that day and later in the week. As a result, both classes worked on their “Summative Assessment” packets handed out the day before. Students worked independently to read each passage and answer its corresponding multiple choice and/or open-ended questions. After students completed the packet, they then worked on an independent writing assignment on MyAccess covering the topic of their future career, considering the fact that it was “Career Day.”
In a society where kids must go to school up to the collegiate level, teaching is an impactful career choice. Teachers help contour the minds of future leaders of the world. Furthermore, teachers play a crucial role in guiding students to the knowledge, skills, and abilities they need to succeed in life, and teachers lead students to make informed decisions on any topic the meet in the future. As a teacher, a person must relinquish their knowledge onto students. Finally, they must prepare their students for all the obstacles they will face later in life.
In a class, for effective learning to take place, there must be a good communication between the students and the teacher. For one to know that learning has taken place there must be a change of behaviour. However this process can be hindered by several factors in a class setting such as students’ behaviour, noise, language barrier and many others. They key hindrance of passage of knowledge from the teacher to the student is students’ behaviour. This the basic attribute that will determine whether a teacher will have an easy time teaching or a very hard time. This paper will look into various ways in which this factor can affect the learning environment and how they can be remedied.
Along these two weeks we have been prompt to make a recall to our own way of learning and why we became a teacher: Was it because coincidence, due to life circumstances, maybe because family tradition, was it a conscious decision or because someone influenced us? Whatever the answer is, we have to face reality and be conscious that being a teacher does not only means to teach a lesson and asses students learning. It requires playing the different roles a teacher must perform whenever is needed and required by our learners, identify our pupils needs and preferences, respecting their integrity and individuality but influencing and motivating them to improve themselves and become independent.
Individuals who enter the field of education reply to the question why teach with various answers. There is beauty, joy, and fulfillment in this profession, and these spirit-lifting emotions are the result of watching annually as a new group of children enter to learn and leave with the knowledge to achieve. Richard Dufour (2000), author of Why Teach expressed his views on the profession first by stating that teaching is not the career for everyone. He goes on to say, that the education profession has the ability to present the “unique opportunity” for individuals to cast a positive influence upon others (Why Teach, 2000, p.1). The smiles received from a room full of students when as a whole their individual needs, both educational and personal have been catered to, prompts a burst of passion in every teacher.
The first main reason that I have chosen teaching as a profession is because I believe that it’s continuous rewards will help me to lead a happy and fulfilled life. For example, teaching young children is one of the few jobs in which you can give and receive hugs on a daily basis. Children have an innocence and a passion for knowledge that I find amazing and I do not feel complete unless I am around them. Teaching will help provide this fulfillment for me every day. Also, teaching is a job in which it is ok, and even encouraged, to laugh each and every day. I feel that this is important for a person’s well-being and I think that it helps to keep people young and alive. I feel that in many other professions the day-to-day routine would become monotonous and boring, and I do not think that I would live a truly happy and fulfilled life unless I could be around children. I feel that a classroom provides many unique and dynamic opportunities every single day and I find that very appealing. Also, I am a very relationship-oriented person and I feel that I will enjoy building unique relationships with each child. I plan on knowing every child as thoroughly as possible because I feel that this will help me to be better at my job.
Teaching is a very rewarding job and a valuable career. The main role of the teacher is to further the knowledge and understanding of every child within the classroom, which can be very difficult at times. Although I am not a teacher yet, I have had many educational interactions with children. I am a math tutor for an elementary school student named Chaniya who lives in my neighborhood and, also, a nanny for a two year old named Regina. In this paper I plan to discuss the educational experiences I have had with each child and how I have helped them reach their educational goals.
In modern society, a high-quality education is imperative to the well being of those within that society. An essential part of a high-quality education is the function of the teacher in the classroom. How a teacher functions within a classroom determines how students learn, what students learn, and how they apply that which they have learned. Therefore, because I am seeking a profession in the field of education, I think I must consider the nature of students, the nature of knowledge, the value of an education, the techniques that I will be using in my classroom, the curriculum, and my future goals as an educator because by doing so I improve my abilities and performance as an educator.