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teacher article

I read an article entitled Admirable Teaching Traits. Summary:

"Teacher quality is the most important factor in determining school quality" (Glenn).  Every year administrators and personnel directors take on the very important responsibility of choosing professional teachers to put in the classroom.  The different people that make these decisions have different qualities that they look at, but they can all agree that the most important factor is teacher quality.  Teacher quality includes: enthusiasm, a willingness to make teaching and learning fun.  Knowledge of content, being subscribe to magazines of the right age group, attending different seminars, and keeping up with all of the changes that take place in your field.  Organization, efficient ways of keeping everything organized, making posters, routines, etc. Good attitude, show concern, care, and respect.  Good communication skills is anther very important teacher quality, talking to the students and being able to communicate to the parents both the good and the bad of the students.

I found this article very interesting.  If you would like to read this article further you can click on this link: Admirable Teacher Qualities!

Words are important!!!

I read a wonderful post by paulina at JH House.  When I read the post from Paulina I would have never known that she was just an elementary student. "Put quotes from other people in your posts.  That will make your writing have other voices in it". I thought that this was a good line and I wanted to quote it, so that any one reading my post will be able to hear Paulina's voice coming out in my post.  I think that she is totally correct when she says that using the same dull words over and over loses its affect in the post. If you use different words it will keep the interest of the person reading it. I think that Paulina is wise byond her age. Great job!!!

Intro to teaching

Hi there guys!

This is my first post on the web blogs.  My name is Katie. I am 18 years old.  I like to play soccer and hang out with friends.  I consider myself a student athlete.  I am active in my church and enjoy doing many different things.  I love little children and the thought of being able to have an impact in someones life really excites me.  That is one of the main reasons that I decided that I wanted to be a teacher. 

I am in an introduction to teaching class. The reason that I decided to take this class was because I would like to pursue a teaching career.  I plan on going to college that has a good teaching program and graduate with my masters. I want to major in early childhood education, with hopes of teaching third of fourth grade, and minoring in secondary education with an emphasis on math. My long term goal is to be a principal of an elementary school. 

We have learned many things in this class. We have learned how to be open minded to people who use a different side of their brains.  We learned that there are different types of learners and as a teacher you need to be able to teach in different styles.  We have learned that as a teacher you have to roll with the punches.  You may have one schedule and so many things start to stray that you need to just be able to go with the flow. 

Next semester we will be in the classrooms at different elementary schools.  I do not know which grade I will be in, but I hope to be in second or third grade.  I can't wait until next year to start helping in the classroom.