Reflection: If You Can Do It All Over

Well I have been in Education and Training class for two years and I honestly love it. I feel so lucky that i got this opportunity. At first, last year I wasn't to sure if I could do it but being in the classroom, my "inner teacher" came out. I didn't think I would be able to discipline the students, but the teachers have told me that I choose the punishments perfectly and that they can see the connection I can make with students. Now that it is all said and done, I thought i wanted a different career path, but I started thinking I wouldn't be able to be with my kids anymore and I wouldn't be able to be creative and express my love for the kids.

Plus when I get my own classroom I will have my own place where I'm in charge and I can decorate it as I please. Kind of like my own little escape. 

This video shows a classroom decoration idea:

Part 2: Classroom Management

If I got the chance to revise one of the rules for Education and Training, I would choose to edit the dress code policy. I would make it to where they have to be in BISD dress code, of course, because that is the district policy, not an E.A.T rule.  This link provides the BISD dress code policy: BISD dress code

Then they would have to follow the dress code of the teachers at their field site. Like if teachers can wear jogging suits or capris, I would allow the students to wear that. 

This would not be acceptable because you are exposing your shoulders and it would probably be very hard to walk around a classroom in those shoes: 

But something like the picture below is acceptable for the students to wear:

Now if they broke the rules, the first two or three times it would be a warning, after that they wouldn't be allowed to go to their field site the next day. If they keep breaking the dress code policy, then the student would have to forever stay at their home campus while they other students go to their field site.

Select a TEKS and Corresponding Activity

I was in pre kindergarten in the spring semester. The TEKS I choose was for physical development. In early childhood TEKS is called "guidelines."

This is the Pre-Kindergarten Guidelines:

A. Gross Motor Skills
Children explore their physical space and understand how their bodies function in space through active movement experiences. Acquisition of gross motor skills requires collaboration of sensory systems (visual, vestibular, and somatosensory), postural stability, motor planning, and strength. To achieve new gross motor skills, practice and repetition are necessary. Typically, development of gross motor skills and postural strength coincide with the development of age-appropriate fine motor skills and maturation of the nervous system that allows for motor learning. Allowing young children to move and explore with their bodies facilitates growth in all the areas necessary for successful classroom performance. 

This is a video to get kids moving.

Texas has a check list of how much the students should know and learn during their time in pre school. This link takes you to the Texas check list for not only physical education, but all of the subjects and criteria:  Check List

In My Opinion- The Best Virtual Field Trip

The best field trip was the tour of the world. You can see nature as if you were actually standing there. The virtual field trip is named "Panoramas of the World." This is great for any grade level. It is great for science when we learn about water life, different minerals, and wild life. It offers great views and information about what your reading about. Click on the link to take your tour.

Panoramas of the World

Teacher Toolbox Featuring Glogster

Glogster for Community Helpers
This is a link to the website Glogser. I created this page to help give a lesson to a preschool class that I intern with about community helps and how to trust and not trust.

Defending Your Decision to Teach

Teaching is  something that requires patience and understanding of different situations. I believe I would be a great teacher, mostly because I know how to keep my temper and I enjoy the feeling of being needed. Teachers are need for more than just educational purposes, they are sometimes needed for emotional support.

Another reason I personally want to be a teacher, is for the interaction with other teachers and the friendships you build while working at a school. It is a nice way to make companions. A lot of teachers that I have had, most of their friends were teachers that they work with. They spend time with each other outside of work and go to one anthers social event.

When I was younger, the first reason I wanted to be a teacher, and still a standing reason, is the three month summer break. That is me being purely lethargic, but I do enjoy spending my summers outside. I probably wouldn't stop working. I would find an easy summer job just to earn a little extra during the break.

Even though I do thoroughly enjoy being in a classroom with students, I am honestly concerned about the pay. Going to college is expensive. I want to obtain by teaching degree from Texas A&M College Station, and tuition alone is nearly 20,000 per year. I don't think the salary of a starting teacher is enough to pay off student loans.

This was written in response to Karen Kallas's Blog: Karen Kallas Educational Blog Link

Am I a Procrastinator?

Article referred to in the blog: Procrastination Article

Ooh I am a MAJOR procrastinator. I am very lazy. thats my reason. That wasn't on the article for why kids procrastinate, but its alway because the assignments aren't interesting or it isn't something i'd rather do than sleep. I don't like reading and that is most of my homework.

So far this year, I have done very well in not procrastinating and I have made up some of the issues I created from procrastinating. I just realized what i wanted in life and what i wanted my grades to look like so I shaped up my laziness. I also started to drink energy drinks to that I wouldn't be sleepy or tired.