Student Teaching...

Student teaching is something that I am highly anticipating, and the wait to find out which school I will be placed at is killing me. The joy I get from being in the classroom on a daily basis and seeing the curious faces and open minds of the children is thrilling. You can talk to an adult and the conversation will be boring and the same over and over again, but with children the options are endless. A child always has a question to challenge your mind or to get you thinking. Sometimes they even make you question if you are knowledgeable enough to even be standing in front of them. Children are sponges and the way they embrace learning and give it there all during everything is amazing to me. If we could look at the world from the prospective of a child there would very little evil in the world and a lot more openness and happiness. When I am able to work with children it does not even feel like work. It is where I am able to let go and be truly myself. Children except a person in their entirety not by what society says is acceptable and I think that is why I love to be around them so much. They are small lively creatures with a loving nature and a willingness to try new things. Children are our future and I want to be one of the people to take part in enriching their lives with knowledge. I cannot wait to step foot in a classroom student teaching will just be the beginning.

Here is a link that answers frequent questions future student teachers may have. It answers a lot of the questions that some people may have or need answers too.

http://www.education.purdue.edu/fieldexp/students/student_teaching/Q_Teaching_Placements.html

Procrastination... My Friend

I do not know if I am the only person who does this but procrastination is my best friend especially since I entered college. I find myself more and more waiting until the last minute to do things such as study for a test, complete an assignment, or just simply print off a paper. I know many people may think that, that is not the way to do things because the quality of your work will be subpar, but that is not the case with me. I tend to do better work when I do it during crunch time as I call it. I think that it pushes me to produce the best work possible so that I can get the grade that I truly want on that particular assignment. Although sometimes waiting to the last minute can be something that comes back and bites me in the behind especially if the project or assignment has multiple components or is very time consuming; it always seems to work out in my favor. I still think my work under pressure is better than anything I have had time to linger over because I am very indecisive and I tend to want to go back and change things. I end up doing three times the work because I have so much time to not like the finished project or add to what I think is an inadequate job to some already amazing work. All of this would seem to be a very large issue with me wanting to go into the education field, because things can not be done last minute when your dealing with children that depend on you on a daily basis. But I think well no I know that my habits will change once I enter the classroom because that is where I have wanted to be my entire life. When I can enrich a young mind I will fill complete even if I to use all the time in the world to get one task done.

This link has information about a person who is a procrastinator. It gives interesting facts that may not be known about the issue that some people think is just ridiculous.

http://sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl/procrastination.html

To Test or Not to Test.....

The profession I am pursuing is one that I have a true passion for. Although this is the case the testing process can become not only stressful but also overwhelming. Yes there are study guides and yes I took classes to prepare me for everything I am suppose to see, but can a test really say whether or not I am going to be a good teacher? I personally know individuals who are great test takers but would be awful in the classroom. This may sound weird to some because they know all the content a teacher needs to know but at the same time the true connection they need to teach students is just not there and that bothers me. Just because one persons test scores are lower than another does not mean that one person is more qualified than others. I think that there should be another testing method to decide who is qualified enough to go into the classroom and who is not.




This link gives the opinions of many people and their reasonings as to why standardized should and should not be banned. So that you can get other opinions other than mine.

http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-standardized-testing-be-eliminated