Reflection 11

I believe being a teacher, is two jobs in one. Not only do you have to teach a child the subject matter, but you have to care for one as well. Have you ever heard the saying it’s not what you say, but it’s how you say it. Well throughout only months, I’ve learned that, that is the key thing to being a teacher. It might sound crazy, but it’s true. Students aren’t ready to have you take them by the horns and run with it. They want things dumb down, and they want things to come easy. Of course this isn’t always the case, you can’t expect to meet everyone’s needs, and everyone has needs. In this situation, you are teaching the student through the eyes of the many beholders. You are put in the perspective that you can’t only teach the material, but you have to relate it to them, because as humans it’s always about the, me factor, and you have to meet that me factor in order to get some sort of learning accomplished. Even though this might seem like variety of importance, the main key is depending on how you say something, is what they interpret and what they learn. Another thing that is important to me for becoming a teacher in reading about beliefs, values, and attitudes, is that you have to explain all the factors. Everyone has their comfortable way of living and how they like to run their life, and for everyone else it’s a little different from the person before. That’s why you can’t only have one person’s opinion when teaching something for the benefit of someone learning from it. You have to teach it through variety of opinions because just because you see something one way, doesn’t mean another person can see it from that same way, and you have to be ready to understand where your students are coming from, and help them have a better understanding of where not you just are coming from, but the world. Beliefs, values, and attitudes are things that you are brought up with, what you do with them, and how you use them are up to you. Still your beliefs, values, and attitudes change when you’re span of knowledge increases. Everyday you learn something knew, whether you apply it in life situations, or think about it as a useless math problem, your learning, and things can be alter just by an event or even a phrase that will affect you. The thing is teachers teach you what they already know, their not doing anything different with you, then the next person who comes along. It’s really you, who is starting to understand, and cope with what is being taught.