Blog Post #6

I have learned that being a teacher is very difficult. While teaching you have to make sure that you have hooks and projects that keep your kids interested. When you become a Teacher it is more than just a 7:30am to 3pm job. It is very possible to end up working sixteen hour days, even when that means you are not on the clock. There are many ways to keep that from happening. I learned of a really good search engine for your students, which is iCurio. I believe that if students use this, it would stop them from using different search engines that actually bring up inappropriate things they should not see. I also learned that using DiscoveryEd is really good to use, since most students learn now days by listening and watching. I always liked visuals growing up in school and still do today. Teaching is a very rewarding field to be in. Teachers should learn to be flexible and good with change for their schedules. Students always like when they get to use technology for different things during their classes. I do not think students should get to use it everyday though, it should be for learning and as a privilege. I learned that us future teachers should not stress when things are not perfect. Perfection is never going to happen. When planning out the next school year lessons, we should think in this order: State regulations to go over, year plans, month plans, week plans, and then do the daily lesson plans. When you want to see where your students are after you finish for the day quiz them and see if they took in most of what you said, and where you need to start off the next day.