Friday, March 31, 2017

Issues in Education: How Much Do Voters Know?

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Most of the people I surveyed knew that Betsy DeVos was the Secretary of Education. And many of them knew that school choice, school vouches, and charter schools were

Thursday, February 2, 2017

It's All About Me - How I Best Learn!

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Learning Styles

Multiple Intelligences
  • Visual, Logical, Intrapersonal, Musical
  • visual- you like to see things
    • musical-you have a sensitivity to sounds
    • intrapersonal-awarness and expression of fear
    • logical-problem solver
  • when the teacher plays music during class
Hemisphiricity
  • global
  • likes team competions, lets others go first, sees relationships, understands things and context, likes humor
  • "I need a break!"
True colors
  • blue
  • value close relationships
  • encourage expression
  • desire quality time with loved ones
  • compromise and cooperate
  • nurture, people, plants, and animals
  • look beyond the surface
  • share emotions
  • make decisions based on feelings
  • are adaptable
  • are drawn to nurturing careers
  • misbehaving to get attention, lying, withdrawal,passive resistence

Friday, January 13, 2017

My Biggest Challenge as a Future Teacher

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 My biggest challenge as teacher would probably be keeping the kids in line. When I was in fifth grade and was moving schools I got a tour of the school I was supposed to be going to. When I was walking the campus with the counselor  and the principal and we were walking by the classrooms and some of them were open the kids were standing on desks and jumping around like maniacs. We walked by another and another and they were all acting the same. Finally we passed a classroom and everyone was sitting down quietly and they were learning, and I knew that that would be the kind of class that I would want to be in.