Reflection Journal Entry 1

September 17, 2012

Educational Experience: 

The most important thing about teaching is the interaction between student and teacher. I have observed classrooms where the teacher wrote the assignments for the the day on the board and told the students to get  to work with no explanation on how to do the work.  Several students approached me on how to do the work and I was of no assistance due to the teacher telling me not to help the students because they were capable of doing the work themselves  I vow as a future educator I will not leave my students to fend for themselves after all the students of today are our future leaders of America.

Course Content:

Caring about students and or the success of your students should be a teachers number one priority besides making sure the child is learning. We talked about disposition the first week of school and how it can make or break you as a professional. Disposition to me is the first impression. You can tell a lot by a person by their non-verbal communication skills as well as verbal also the way a person dresses and how they care themselves  I believe that a person must care about themselves first before they even ATTEMPT to take care of the well being of someone else child.

Application:

At the moment I do not know the standard number but there is one that talk about disposition  In my classroom it will be a positive and all negatively must be left at the door whether is be student, teacher,parent,staff, and or faculty member. Just because you as a person is not cheerful does not mean you have to have a boring and dull classroom where everyone is miserable and I believe where there is fun there is learning. I agree with Swiss philosopher Pestalozzi key belief that students discourse and activities should focus on hands on manipulative s'.  The classroom becomes interactive and all learning styles can be incorporated.