Is Teaching for Me?

Since completing my course and service learning I am even more excited to become an Elementary teacher. I have learned so much from this course and it was a great experience to observe different teaching styles. I was able to make connections with this course and my service placement. Teaching will definitely not be an easy task, it will be a lot of work, but I am looking forward to the challenge. 

I know this career path in teaching is for me. I have realized how much I love children and that I love to teach. I want to inspire children to learn. I want to be a great example for them, and I want to be one that my students will remember as one of their best teachers. I cannot wait to graduate and start my teaching career. 

My service learning placement has helped influence my decision to become a teacher. I love to be in a classroom and see children learning. I have seen many trials that teachers and students have both endured. I find it an exciting challenge to help students with learning disabilities and behavior issues. I am looking forward to the day I have my own classroom, to teach students that learning is fun and rewarding. 

My next steps will be to finish my courses in Elementary education. I am anxious to start my student teaching. It will be a wonderful to work alongside an experienced teacher and learn from them. I will work as hard as I can to graduate as soon as possible to become a teacher. I wish I had realized a long time ago that this is what I wanted to do and it is now a goal I can't wait to achieve.

Classroom Assessment

Today I am going to assess the connections I am making between my service learning placement and my course work. As I look back over my blog posts and reflect on my learning I can see how I have made connections between the course topics and my service learning experiences. I have experienced engaged learning in my course of instruction by learning new technology, and I have seen it at my service learning placement when the teacher engages her students by using technology also. Another example would be the standards and accountability that the teacher has to follow. I am taught through this course about the standards and accountability teachers must follow, and then I see her teaching them in my placement. I find it very interesting how much I am learning, now that I am assessing my own learning from this class and making connections. By learning from this course and then seeing the teacher teach, I understand what I am learning and I see things differently while I observe. 

The process of blogging helps me think and notice things in my service learning placement because I look at teaching through a new perspective. Writing about what I am learning helps me understand and remember what I am observing. I love blogging about what I am learning, because I can look back at what I wrote, it's like a journal of my experiences and what I have learned. I see what I have learned from my first blog post to my last and see how I have grown through observing and helping my service learning teacher. I have learned about the diversity of the students, how each child is different, and how students learn in different ways. I have also learned how important it is to engage the students. These are things I did not know when I posted my first blog post. I find it important to blog what I am learning, so I will continue to blog as I proceed through my classes. Blogging is a great tool, it helps me think about what I am learning and observing.