My Teaching Experience

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My first experience with teaching was during my duration at Ladywood high school, an all-girls high school. I noticed technology was already well advanced, and it was also in great numbers. When I first started going to the school it seemed to be a very engaging learning area but I soon found out that the teachers were struggling to keep up with the incorporation of technology in the schools, and desperately struggled with keeping students attention because of this. There was however one teacher who utilized the technology at her disposal and kept her students engaged. I saw this and compared it not only to the other classrooms but also to my own high school. These experiences led me to think why all classrooms cannot act as the students did in this one. I could see the differences in the student’s curiosity toward things they did not understand in the classroom. With everything I observed, and compared during this experience this led me to develop my philosophy
This is an important aspect because students who do not listen, and misbehaved are students who do not care, or learn. I found Ladywood’s students behavior strange because the high school I attended more than most of the students acted in a way that coincided with the thought that they did not want to learn. I didn’t understand this behavior originally but after sending some time with the teachers and students it became clear as to why they were so different from what I knew. In the high school I attended we went to school sat in a classroom and just memorized what the teacher said. No one ever really took anything we learned serious because no one saw the relevance in it. If a student at my school asked the “why did we need to know this” literally all we were told is because it’s a part of the curriculum. At this school the teacher actually told them good reasons why they needed to know

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