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Q."Rather than saying, "I have a job," I say with delight, "I am a teacher!" It's so much more than a job. It's an awakening."
ReplyDeleteF. Although there is incresing cooperation among teachers and greateracess to specialists, mentors, and aidsm for the most part teachers work independently in their own classrooms and with their own students.
Q. How can we keep the classroom creative?
Fact: 67% of the teachers who have been mentored say that the experience that they recieved improved their teaching.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "It's not what the teacher does that's important. It's what the teacher gets the children to do."
Question: How are we supposed to "make the student's parents your allies", when there are alot of parents that don't really care about the students behavior or what happens at school?
Question: In the school I grew up with, it appeared that the principal was the "boss" but according to this chapter, the principals and teachers should work together. Which is correct?
ReplyDeleteQuote: It's not what the teacher does that's important. It's what the teacher gets the children to do. --Phil Schechty, Educational Reformer
Fact: ... there is no surer way to end your career quickly and unhappily than to become, or even appear to become, romantically involved with a student.
Quote- “Teaching is leaving a vestige of yourself in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.
ReplyDeleteFact- A mentor is an experienced teacher who is willing to act as a guide and confidant through the first year.
Question- What if you can’t make your students parents your allies?
Fact: Sixty-seven percent of teachers who have been mentored claim that the experience significantly improved their teaching.
ReplyDeleteQuote: The love of nurturing and observing growth in others is essential to sustaining a life of teaching. This implies that no matter what you teach or how you present yourself to your students, you have to be on the learners' side and to believe that they can and will grow during the time that you are together.
Question: How hould a first-year teacher go about choosing his or her mentor? (hould this be someone who teaches the same subject? is the same age? etc..)
Quote: "Rather than saying, "I have a job," I say with delight, “I am a teacher!" It's so much more than a job; it's an awakening.-Stuart D. Chandler, 5th grade teacher, Aurora, CO.
ReplyDeleteFact: 67% of teachers who have been mentored claim that the experience significantly improved their teaching.
Question: What are ways that a first year teacher can be proactive and not wait for help to come to them?
Quote~~"A teacher's day is half bureaucracy, half crisis, half monotony, and one-eighth ephiphany. Never mind the arithmetic."
ReplyDeleteFact~~Only 47% of public school teachers report having had a mentor.
Question~~If a teacher works 40 hours a week, not counting meetings and conferences as well as grading papers, how to they make time for themselves, for exercising, family, etc?
Fact: 67 percent of teachers who have been mentored claim that the experience significantly improved thier teaching.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "But how do I feel at the end of each day? I feel proud of my students. I feel more knowledgeable about living, teaching, and learning. I feel lucky to be a teacher. I feel....full of sparks.
Question: Which part of teaching are you most confident about? pg. 467
Quote: "It's not what the teacher does that's important. It's what the teacher gets the children to do." -Phil Schechty
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Why do you think beginning teachers score so low on attitude inventories?
Fact: Ultimately, a teacher's only real problem is his or her students' failure to learn and to develop.
Question- what are the six reasons for parent-teacher problems?
ReplyDeleteQoute- "it's not what the teacher does that's important. It's what the teacher gets the children to do." -Phil Schechty
Fact- One third of all new teachers leave the profession by the end of their third year.
Fact: "Don't---we repeat, don't--- get married two weeks before the start of your first teaching job. Each year, thousands of new college graduates decide to simultaneously jump into two of life's most difficult undertakings: beginning a career and starting what they hope will be a lifelong relationship." pg. 468
ReplyDeleteQuestion: What are some ways to gain the most knowledge and experience out of your first year of teaching?
Quote: "Humilty is a virtue that has been all but drowned out in our modern, 'We're Number One' culture." pg. 484
Katie Brown
ReplyDeletefact: As a new teacher you start witha plane of action and slowly circle to find ways that work with you and the students.
Quote: " Teaching is leaving a vestige of yourself in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures." Eugene P. Bertin
??: How do yoyu plan to keep track of the works and dont works of oyou first year teaching experience?
Billy Jones
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Rather then saying, "I have a job," I say with delight, "I am a teacher!" Its so much more than a job. Its an awakening. Stuart D. Chandler
Fact: 67% of the teachers who have been mentored say that the experience that they recieved improved their teaching.
Question: Why is the students a source of faliure? The students are the success, teachers must overcome all hurdles.
Fact- 67% of teachers who have been mentored say that the experience they recieved improved their teaching.
ReplyDeleteQuote- "It's not what the teacher does thats important. It is what the teacher gets the children to do." Phil Schechty
Question- What can a first year teacher do to be more productive?
Question:When do you find time to write in your teaching journal with all your other new overwhelming issues?
ReplyDeleteQuote: A teacher's day is half bureaucracy, half crisis, half monotony, and one-eightieth epiphany. Never mind the arithmetic.
Fact:That students find the teacher who wants to be one of the gang as weak and confusing.
Quote: “A teacher’s only real problem is his or her students’ failure to learn and develop.”
ReplyDeleteFact: A first year teacher can have no greater gift than a good mentor, an experienced teacher who is willing to act as a guide and confident through the first year.
Question: What part of teaching do you believe will be the most challenging?
Alicia Bell
ReplyDeleteQuote: it's not what the teacher does that's important. It's what the teacher gets the children to do.
Question: How do you learn from your teaching experience your first year without putting the kids at risk of not accomplishing anything?
Fact:One third of all new teachers leave the profession by the end of their third year
Quote: Its not what the teacher does thats important. It's what the teacher gets the children to do.
ReplyDeleteFact-Establishing an appropriate social distance from students occupies a good deal of a beginning teacher's attentionand energy.
Question-How far is too far and how close is too close for a social distance?
Ali Dalsing
ReplyDeleteFact: US schools will need 2 million new teachers in the next decade.
Question: What should we be most worried about in the first year of teaching?
Quote: "It's not what the teacher does, it's what the teacher gets the students to do."
Quote: "It's not what the teacher does that's important. It's what the teacher gets the children to do."
ReplyDeleteFact: A first year teacher can have no greater gift than a good mentor, an experienced teacher who is willing to act as a guide and confident through the first year.
Question: Is it difficult to find the balance between being in charge and being a confidant?
Quote: A teacher's day is half bureaucracy, half crisis, half monotony, and one eightieth epiphany. Never mind the arithmetic.
ReplyDeleteFact: In the early months of the school year many new teachers experience depression, self doubt, outbursts of crying, physical exhaustion, insomnia, crankiness.
Question: Priniciples are vital to the educational field. what do you do if you experience a less then helpful principle?