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What I've Learned This Year,
This topic is about a first year elementary school teacher(Mr.McClung), who started out with the right intentions but got a hard dose of reality. When he tried to implement his lesson plan for teaching, something went terribly wrong. He took everything he had learned in college, and had what he thought was a good plan. Only problem, the students didn't know that. After a rocky start, he came up with a brilliant idea. The idea was, why don't I ask the students what they think. That lead to his second and most important idea, not only will I ask there opinion, I will listen to there suggestions. Mr. McClung learned a valuable lesson, what good is a lesson plan, when nobody but you can appreciate it. Teachers are so worried about being teachers, they forget about the students concerns. Tragically, this happens all the time, and is the undoing of most teachers today. Mr.McClung realized early on, that if its not about the students, then who, and what are you teaching.
Hello Woodie!
ReplyDeleteThis are some really admirable viewpoints of yours; I especially like how you said "Teachers are so worried about being teachers." You're absolutely right. Every time I've had a teacher that rambles on about their topic (they could even carry a good lecture) but doesn't pay much mind to what his/her students had to say, it just implies that the teacher really doesn't care about the students. He/she is too concerned about whether or not they will look good as a teacher, which is petty and not what's important. We as teachers or teachers-to-be need to remember this.
Thank you for your post!
Matthew Poirier
Well "terribly wrong" might be a bit strong. And there are a lot of i's that should be I's. As you will see this week he is an even better teacher in Year 3!
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