i want freedom! but keep me in line

This week we talked about freedom and form. This was one of those things I never really thought about as someone wanting to be a teacher. I always just thought what the teacher says, goes. No matter what. The whole freedom and form thing makes perfect sense to me. Obviously you want students to be under control and still follow by your rules, but freedom for the students is also important. That way, students can be creative, and accel in what they want. When I was in school, my classes were split. Some classes had freedom and form, while others were just form. You were given an assignment and you had to do it exactly the same as everyone else. There was no way to have freedom. Looking back I did better, not only grade wise, but full on learning too, in the classes where I was able to create some more on my own. Taking that, when I work on becoming and begin teaching, I will make sure I allow the student to create for their own, while having some structure. This will hopefully maximize the learning.

grade this grade that

Throughout this week we have been talking about grading. I used to think grading was a simple thing to accomplish as a teacher and was just time consuming. This week has made me thing otherwise. It isn’t necessarily difficult, but there are a lot more factors that you have to look at that I dint realize. I could see how my own personal opinion could affect how I grade the assignment. This is something I will for sure need to work on, especially since it is such a bug part of teaching.

welcome to life

The first couple weeks of school have been interesting. They started off the first week pretty simple. It was just syllabus here, syllabus there, no big deal. I figured most of my classes were going to be interesting, with mythology and Shakespeare being the worst by far. By taking basically all English classes I was happy to hear that I had only acquired a few tests for all of the semester. I knew there was going to be a lot of reading and writing, but I don’t mind that at all.
Second week started, and I realized I am in a world of hurt. It’s not that its super hard work, it is just that it is a lot of work. I don’t mind it, it’s just the fact that my social life will be cut down a little bit. I realize that that is just a part of growing up, so it doesn’t upset me at all. I just need to make some adjustments in my life style in order to make it work out well this summer.
Still excited though!!!