BlogPost10

Looking back at the class and what we've learned, I am happy to say that I believe I will take many of the topics we've discussed and questions that have risen from our discussions with me when I hopefully teach history. One of the most important ideas that we've talked about in ED100 is the idea of seeing each student as an individual and still be able to teach an entire group. I think this is so important because as students ourselves, we've all had teachers we couldn't stand based sometimes solely on the fact that we couldn't understand his/ her teaching methods. If a student isn't doing well and is putting in the effort, then that says something about the teacher. A good teacher should want all our his/her students to do their best and that means having more than one way to come to the same conclusion. This applies to all age groups. At younger, elementary school, ages a teacher can bring SchoolHouse Rock as a new idea. SchoolHouse Rock was used by a lot of my elementary school teachers. It used music, fun songs, and funny cartoons to help us remember what a noun or an adjective was, our 3 times tables. There was even a song about the central nervous system that I can still sing word-for-word to this day. This type of teaching made class and learning fun and gave us a different way to learn the same information. At the high school level maybe an activity such as creating a satirical cartoon would be beneficial in a history classroom that focuses on the topic being discussed. Another idea could be reenacting different scenes from a novel or play being read in an english classroom. All these are different ways of learning than the typical lecture idea. Each student is an individual with certain traits that make them unique from everyone else including the way they think. It's important that the teacher can connect with his/her students and understands how they learn to the best of their ability. This way the teacher can make sure to plan their lesson plans and create activities centered around the individual students in their classroom rather than general ideas for the entire class. Seeing each student as unique is key to being the best teacher you can be.