I
am gripped by the words that we have read through this reading. Educating our
students by talking to them like we are supposed to fill them with the
knowledge that we have is not the reason to be a teacher. I was taught by many
of these types of educators and their classes were by far the worst that I
encountered or took part in. It is difficult to be a part of that learning
environment, because the teacher is lecturing the entire time and does not ask
for feedback or discussion at all during the talk. It’s almost as if I was just
a body in the class that was supposed to resuscitate all the information back
to the teacher and then therefore it would be called getting an education. The
students need the push and pull concept of education. Give the students information
and then ask to discuss it amongst themselves, to toss around the ideas and see
what they get out of it. The teacher should prompt the students to get ideas
flowing in their brains and then formulate a response back. We need to teach
them how to think and question on their own and in this way they will learn how
to be learners. Conversations should be an ever pressing method that is used in
the classroom. Yes students learn from the teacher but the teacher can be
taught by the students as well. Teachers need to open up their knowledge banks,
create lessons around discussion and prepare students with the tools to be
successful in this kind of setting. Students need the tools to become good
thinkers on their own to make it successfully through their education career
but also throughout their life. Discussion and conversation skills are vital
and invaluable throughout life and in any and every situation. There is not
enough verbalizations going on in the classroom today. Teachers do not want to
teach the students what is merely in their heads, but they want to pass on the
skills to be able to function, question, debate and form opinions of their own
and then be able to back those opinions up by their own thoughts and ideas. I
am so convinced that this is the way I want to teach. I want to invest in my
students’ lives by means of educating them in the way to be successful in my
classroom and then onto the next chapter. I want to prepare them as best as I
can, right where they are at, but to the potential that they can reach. I want
them to leave my classroom knowing that I invested in them and that it wasn’t
about me forcing my agenda onto them. The point about the world and humanity
was so interesting. Communication and thinking are blessings in disguise. What
if we didn’t have the ability to communicate? This is a gift that has been
given to humans. Since humans have the ability to talk to each other, a person
would be greatly missing out if they didn’t share what they were thinking and
feeling with other people. It is a part of our development and is imbedded into
our souls. We want someone to care and to ask us our opinion. Why don’t more
people put conversation out there and then wait for a response. If it is a
human’s desire to communicate why don’t we as talkers make a habit of it? I
want to create this atmosphere in my classroom. I want to facilitate, to
prompt, to ignite and to encourage discussion, thinking, learning and debating
life in my classroom. It is my students’ education but I hope to learn from
them as they learn from me as well. There was such a plethora of information in
this reading that I have taken to heart and that will add to my maturing into a
teacher but also as a learning and growing individual. This meant a lot to
read. I will take it with me, meditate on the concepts and put them into
practice as much as I can. After all what am I afraid of? Taking risks to
become the best teacher that I can is this girl’s agenda.
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