Teacher or Anchor

I will be honest with all of you and admit that my first choice of major was Communications. Yes I want to be an anchor and I want it really bad!haha. I want to travel and see what is going on all over the world. I want to tell viewers what is happening in their hometown, the good and the bad. I watch the news a alot and I think that it is such an amazing job which seems to be so easy but I know that it requires alot of hard work and dedication as well as most jobs. I am also aware that it is hard to get into this field but I am going to do the best I can and I know it will take several years but I am determined and I know that I can do it!=D

So most of you are wondering now, "so why are you majoring in EE"? Well I wish I could be a teacher by day and an anchor at night but that's not going to happen.ha! The reason why I am majoring in EE is because my idol has been my Kindergarten teacher ever since well I was in Kindergarten. She was a great teacher, now she is the assistant principal of an Elementary School. I've always looked up to her and said that one day I will be a great teacher just like her. Aside from that I love kids and I like standing up in the middle of a room and well teaching! I am very creative and I see myself as a strict but at the same time fun teacher. If that makes any sense. There are teachers that I have seen that are just so mean, as horrible as it sounds it's true and we all know it. We don't need anymore teachers like that, we need nice good teachers (like me..hehe) and if I do become a teacher, I will also eventually become a Principal and run my own school! Hey it can happen! Well thanks for reading this! And I pretty much cut it down because I had tons more to say but I can't write forever!

Christmas

So since I don't know what to write about, I am going to write about what I am thinking about teaching for my mini lesson. I love Christmas and since my lesson will be in December (Tuesday), I am going to start off with something Christmas-ish. Christmas to me is about alot of things and one of the words that come to mind is "fun". I want to make my lesson fun and have everyone enjoy it. Something like an art project sounds good.

I remember I loved Christmas because in Grammar School, we would always do a lot of fun activities. Art projects, reading and writing, whatever had to do with Christmas I enjoyed! So I am not telling what I am going to do exactly but well now you know it's about Christmas. I can't say that it will be a blast because we will have over 10 interruptions and probably a mess but we can make the most out of it.=D

See you all Tuesday!

Lessons

Overall. I think that all of the lessons have been good. I've learned a lot from them. I wasn't there for the first two lessons but Janira told me about the index cards and I was like "wow". That is such as great idea because it's the reality part of teaching. All the other classes where I have done mini lessons have been a piece of cake. Everyone listens and everyone does what they are supposed to do. Yeah right, if only it was that easy I think there would be hundreds of more teachers. I am an assistant teacher in Preschool and sometimes I have to chase them around so that they can actually sit. They literally run away from me so that I can catch them. It's crazy which is why I prefer to teach 4th or 5th graders. Hopefully I won't have to chase them around the classroom. Well good luck to everyone who hasn't gone yet (I am one of them!). and Good Job to the ones that already did!

Report Cards

It's funny how this topic just makes me remember of how scared I was everytime the teacher mentioned Report Cards. The funny part is that I always did well. I was one those "smart kids". I don't mean to brag but it's true. I had classmates wanting to copy from me and sit next to me when there was a test. Of course, I wasn't the only one. I was just one of them. Anyways, I guess I was just never sure of how I did because I always remembered like, "Oh I didn't do my homework one time because I was absent" and then just felt like that was the end of my good grades. It's silly now when I think about it but I think that a lot people felt like that. You never know what to expect for sure. Once I made it to High School, Report Cards were mailed to your house and I was always checking the mailbox before my parents could. I would open it up and see my grades and then decided if I should give it to my parents or not. Sometimes I would even forget.

Every Vote Counts!!!

I found this video and I think it has a good meaning so if you're interested please watch and please vote! =D

Portfolios

In class I saw different types of what people considered to be "portfolios". When I think of portfolios I think of folders with a collection of the student's best work. At least that is how portfolios worked when I was in school. I am pretty sure that I will use portfolios in my future classrooms. It's good to have your student's best work in a folder so that he/ she can see all of their accomplishments as the year goes by. It is also good for the teacher that the students will have the following year so that they can see the students best work and know that they are capeable of doing good work. When I was in high school, we had a checklist at the beginning of the year inside our portfolios. The list was of all the things that we would be putting inside our portfolios once the projects or essays were completed and revised. As we completed them, we would simply check it off the list and by the end of the year hopefully we had everything in our portfolios that was required because we also receieved a portfolio grade from our English teacher. I think that I will use my portfolios the same way as I did when I was in school unless there is a specific way that the school I am working at wants them done.

Rubrics

At first, I really didn't know much about rubrics because none of my teachers ever gave me one. Well at least, not that I remembered until now. Which is why I never realized how useful these rubrics can be. They are very helpful for both the student and the teacher. As far as the student, I think that they allow us to see exactly what the teacher is looking for and what he/ she expects from us in an essay, project or any assignment that is given. It is a great guide and we can check things off as we complete them. In my reading class, my professor gives the students a different kind of rubric as a guide when we make our lesson plans. I constantly look at it because it states everything that he will be looking for. I have gotten really good results because with a guide like that as help, you can't have many mistakes. There actually shouldn't be any at all if you pay close attention tot the rubric.

As far as the teacher, I think that it makes things easier for her as well. All the students will be graded equally no matter who they are or what is expected from them as an individual. They all were supposed to follow the same exact rubric so they will be graded according to what they did complete from the rubric or what they didn't. I will definitely use rubrics in my future classroom.