Blog Post B

After reading chapter 2 the first concept that stood out to me is called "A Career That Matters". It starts off by saying that teaching is a profession that matters to everyone not only students but society. It list what teachers are expected to do convey, teach, and balance. One other thing it said was "Beginning educators often teach as they were taught". I couldn't agree more with that statement yes you go through schooling and learn tips on how to teach but what really sticks to you is seeing someone teach first hand. I started as a teaching assistant at a day care and everything my mentor taught and I learned by watcher her has stuck in my mind. Going back to the 3 things teachers are expected to do I think it's great to have to guidelines. The first one is saying to teach material to students in ways that will understand, remember, and use. This is very important to me because whats the one thing students always stress to teachers, "when will we ever use this out side of school?", well at least I did. The second one is teach and it goes onto say you need to reach all of your students with different needs and learning styles. The third one is balance, balance students outside of school influences with inside the classroom dynamics.

The second concept was under "Methods For Teaching With Technology". It's called "Student-centered teaching". This philosophy for teaching is having the students learn through puzzles, questions, and engaging in conversation, this is learning through explorations and discovery. I agree with this philosophy 100%, not all students learn at the same pace or the same way. I believe giving students tests and paper work doesn't show anything. It's very easy to daze off and get sleepy while staring at a piece of paper for hours. Getting students engaged and interacting with one another shows what they are capable of.

Another concept is under "Students and Their Technologies". This focuses on how students in this generation have way more experience with technology than their teachers do. They are now calling them "digital natives" and those who are familiar with technology "digital immigrants". This really amazes me that teachers the ones who are supposed to be teaching these students don't even know near what they know about technology because they did not grow up using these technologies. In my opinion this shows just how important this class truly is to becoming a successful teacher in this day and age.

 Maloy, R. (n.d.). Transforming learning with new technologies (2nd ed.).