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ReplyDeleteEDU 202 / 203 -- MWSU -- Spring 2010 -- Dr. Hendrix
Assignment: Chpt. 14; Due: Monday, March 29, 2010
1. What can I as a new teacher expect? Well, if I knew that then there’d be no point in being new; rather, I’d be experienced, now wouldn’t I?!! :) (Txtbk. Chpt. 14)
2. “Rather than saying, “I have a job,” I say w/ delight, “I am a teacher!” It’s so much more than a job. It’s an awakening.” -Stuart D. Chandler, 5th Grade Teacher, Aurora, Colorado (Txtbk. p. 458, Chpt. 14)
3a. Being happy in your work will make you a more effective teacher. (Txtbk. p. 482, Chpt. 14) (Note: “Statistics show that 50 percent (50%) of new teachers drop the teaching profession within the first five (5) years.” –Dr. Elizabeth Hendrix, MWSU, EDU 202, Murphy Hall, Classroom 224, Spring 2010)
3b. Sixty-seven percent (67%) of teachers who have been mentored claim that the experience significantly improved their teaching. (Txtbk. p. 455, Chpt. 14)
Chapter 14
ReplyDeleteQuestion
What does research show about administrators and teachers?
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"A teacher's day is half bureaucracy, half crisis, half monotonous, and one eighth epiphany." Susan Ohanion
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Being happy in your work will make you a more effective teacher pg 482
You know you're in trouble when...It feels like February, and it's only late September. P.462
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think is the biggest challange you will face as a new teacher?
"It's not what the teacher does that's important. It's what the teacher gets the children to do". -Phil Schechty
Question: What are some ideas about how to establish effective discipline in a classroom?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "It's not what the teacher does that's important. It's what the teacher gets the children to do."
Fact: Good News: Forecasters predict that as a result of teachers retirement and population growth, U.S. schools will need 2 million new teachers in the next decade.
Question: The book talks about sex and student/teacher attractions. However, it doesn't explain that it's wrong. Why not?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "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
Fact: Three reasons for parent/teacher problems: 1) Differences in perception
2) Judgments for their students
3) Differences of social class and experiences
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ReplyDeleteBut how do I feel at the end of the day? I feel proud of my students. I feel more knowledge about living, teaching, and learning. I feel lucky to be a teacher. I feel ... full of sparks.
p428
Fact:
67% of teachers who have been mentored claimn that the experience significantly imroved their teaching.
Question:
What if I have a parent who relentlessly gives me problems and my administrators don't have any advice?
Question: When does the new teacher gain the sense of an apporpriate soical distance between themselves and his or her students?
ReplyDeleteWhat if there is a set of parents that still cause problems no matter what you have tried? What is the best way to see eye to eye with them?
Quote: "In a completely rational society, the best if us would be teachers and the rest of us would settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the nest ought to be the high-responsibilty anyone could have." - Lee Iacocca
Fact: Ultimately, a teacher's only real problem is his or her students's failure to learn to develop.
Do teachers tend to have more conflict with upper-class parents or lower-class parents?
ReplyDelete"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, Fifth Grade Teacher
One-third of all new teachers leave the profession by the end of their third year. (page 482)
- Being happy in your work will make you a more effective teacher.
ReplyDelete-"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
-Is there any way to be completely prepaired for your first year of teaching?
Sixty-seven percent of teachers who have been mentored claim that the experience significantly improved their teaching.
ReplyDelete"But how do I feel at the end of each day? I feel proud of my students. I feel more knowledgebale about living, teaching, and learning. I feel lucky to be a teacher. I feel ... full of sparks." Irasems Ortega-Crawford
What strategies could you use when experiencing cultural shock?
Quote:"It's not what the teacher does that's important. It's what the teacher gets the children to do."
ReplyDeleteFact: The United States will need 2 million new teachers in the next decade.
Question: What do you think is the hardest thing about your first year teaching.
Question: Do you recomend having a mentor while teaching?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Its not what the teacher does that's important. It's what the teacher gets the children to do."
Fact: Reasons for parent-teacher problems are varied perceptions, judgements on students, difference of social class and experiences, overburdened parents, pain of change, and privilege and responsibility.
Question: As a new teacher, what kinds of problems will you face with your students?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "It's not what the teacher does that's important. It's what the teacher gets the children to do." -Phil Schechty p.470
Fact: 76% of mentored teachers claim to have experienced significant improvement in their teaching.
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ReplyDelete"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
Question:
What is the most important component or personality trait for a teacher to possess, in order to constantly have this attitude?
Fact:
Happiness in your job makes you a more effective teacher.
Question: Do minority group children get treated differently today in our schools with mainly white students?
ReplyDeleteFact: Mintoring helps teacher performance.
Quote: "Teachers have very little time to teach learners compared to the time learners have on their own. "
Quote:"Rather than sdaying, "I have a job," I say with delight, "I am a teacher!" It's so much more than a job. It's an awakenign.-Stuart D. Chandler
ReplyDeleteQuestion: which aspect of teaching or the istruction process do you believe will be the most challenging?
Fact: 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 confidant through the first year.
Quote: "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."
ReplyDeleteQuestion: How is classroom management different for elementary and secondary teachers? How is it similar?
Fact: Principals take on a variety of roles within the school.
Question: which part of teaching do students leave school most confident about.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "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
FAct: Sexual attraction and romance between students, and even between teachers is alive and well in American Schools.
- what are some good ways to discipline students?
ReplyDelete- teachers have very little time to teach learners compared to the time learners have on their own.
- mentoring greatly helps teachers performance
Question: What are the hardest adjustments for a new teacher to make, and are there any ways to make this adjustment easier?
ReplyDeleteQuote: Its not what the teacher does that is important. It's what the teacher gets the children to do. Phil Schechty pg 470
Fact: Sixty-seven percent of teachers who have been mentored claim that the experience significantly improved their teaching. pg 455