Blogging Assignment

As to what I said in module one, After watching the video, it made me feel like teaching was important, unlike the book, I felt like teaching was a semi-profession. A teacher is someone who really impacts people and makes a difference. The mood was positive like a classroom should be. That working with children is an incredible experience and not a bad thing all the time. That it is not just a "baby-sitting" job. It made it important to me because we as teachers are shaping the future for these young minds. The thought of that makes the job seem so much more than just teaching. It is like their future is in your hands and its fragile.
I think the characteristics that teachers will need to be effective would one to have thick skin, be firm to what you say, do not come across at first to easy, or else the children will walk all over you. I think that in having thick skin, you need to because there will be those days that you will not want to come to school because of the day before went bad, but you have to. The children do not need to get through your skin. Being firm is not being mean. Some students will say you’re a “mean” teacher, but you’re not. And eventually they will understand the meaning in being firm and mean.

I do not feel that teachers need to be different just because their students are. I mean, kids will be kids, and they want to express themselves to make statements for the other kids. That does not mean that teachers need to go put on black leather jackets, black pants and black lipstick to be different. I think being prepared is upon yourself. I think that every situation that someone comes upon to be prepared, people handle them different. That does not mean if it is working for that particular teacher, for that teacher to go changing how they prepare themselves. I feel that we do not have to do things differently unless we HAVE to. The majority of people do not like change, so why corrupt what they know and make them unhappy when it did not need to happen in the first place. We know that the evolution of teaching preparation is changing, but a person can only be so prepared. It also takes experiences to have some preparation too. For example, you would not know how to prepare to handle a fight in the hallway unless you have experienced it. On paper, yes you know the precautionaries to take, but the situation is always different from the fairy-tale written way in the text books.