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All about teachers and the world of teaching; teachers sharing their best and worst interactions with students, best teaching practices, the path to becoming a teacher, and more.
Play!
Don't children come to school and just play all day? How do they learn if all they do is play? The answer is yes, children come to school on a daily basis to play and learn. While many of you only see your children playing, we preschool teachers see beyond the play and see you children develop skills that they hadn't before, acquire interests that encourage their development, and so much more. Children learn best during well thought out and planned learning activities that include the children playing. The children can play freely and still learn. Though you may be doubting that statement, it is true. Playing freely can help develop children's social and emotional development through various forms of play. This is where our job as a preschool teacher comes into action. In order for your child's learning experience through play to be effective, it is important that we preschool teachers encourage our children through playing in the classroom, encourage peer interaction, initiate the play, ask open ended questions, and even take the time to play with the children. Implementing these skills into your child's play encourages them to play and learn, and also gives preschool teachers the opportunity to learn more about the students.
By Samantha Dominguez4 years ago in Education
Teacher Mental Health
Mental health is a hot topic, and one that is brought up for many professions. It’s only been touched on with teachers and how we are affected. It’s more directed at teaching with compassion, trauma-informed teaching, and other areas relating to the students and how we should reach them. It isn’t so much directed at our mental health and wellbeing. And we need help too. We are always on in the classroom, and we don’t get to take breaks as other professions do. We don’t get to decompress like others. We don’t always have access to the support or understanding that is needed to function well.
By Gay Writing Quill4 years ago in Education
Early Childhood Education Experience
My Experience as an Early Childhood Educator As a preschool director and early educator of 12 years, I have had the pleasure to work with children ages 6 weeks to age 5. Children are such intelligent, curious individuals that sometimes it makes me wonder how I can possibly enhance their developmental needs.
By Samantha Dominguez4 years ago in Education
Research South Korea
If you read my last story, you will know I spent a lot of time researching South Korea and jobs there. I spent months reading blogs, watching vlogs, making sure I had tons of apps downloaded in preparation. It wasn't until I felt comfortable with the culture and had committed to leaving my life in the U.S. that I started looking for work.
By MythosTheBear4 years ago in Education
Male Role Models
As I walk through the hallway that is filled with Grade 2 students all lined up for their Phy. Ed class I hear a very familiar excited voice right behind me."Hello Mr. Logan!" I turn around and their she was. Her big brown eyes filled with light and excitement, and very timid, and approval seeking smile. I make sure that I am several meters away so that I can pull down my mask and reciprocate the smile and validate her attention seeking expression. It takes time, work and consistently to build a strong positive connection with a child but when you finally do establish that bond its life changing. A year before all this I met her for the first time in Grade 1. There she was in the back of the class very quiet, very shy, very timid. One day she gets off her chair and approaches me. She does not speak a word does not crack a smile. She hands me her pencil and her sharpener. I know what she is asking for but she is too shy to say the words. So I begin sharpening her pencil. I tell her a joke to put her mind at ease. She cracks a very small smile. This pattern occurred everyday for two weeks. As everyday passed that smile got bigger and her eyes got wider with excitement. She would return to her seat turn around at me and start giggling. I knew from these reactions that I was finally making a connection with her. In time she began to speak and having conversations with me. At this point she was beginning to associate me with positive emotions. She began to get more comfortable speaking in class and raising her hand when she had a question. She was slowly starting to project her voice across the class. A huge progression from when I had to put my ear an inch from her face to hear her voice. She starting making friends joining in on games during recess and lunch. On the days she was too shy I would initiate a game with her and the other children. I would allow myself to slowly fade away into the background and this allowed facilitated her to establish a connection more with her peers then just with me. As the school year went on she improved. Now in Grade 2 she is blossoming. I always make a point to check in with her from time to time. Even if we do not see each other as much I always make sure to be her Constant. To be that Power Male Role Model when she needs it. When she throws up that Bat signal she knows The Batman is on the way.
By Logan Rider4 years ago in Education
New Teacher Journey 1
Being a new teacher is rough. We don’t know what to ask. We don’t know how to ask. And we don’t know what to do fairly often. We’re overwhelmed and often treading water just enough to keep from drowning, but not enough to stop from inhaling some of the water.
By Gay Writing Quill4 years ago in Education
Lies My Teacher Told Me
For the majority of the population, history class has been and always will be boring. Students consider history “irrelevant” and boring. When possible, students do the very least in their social science classes, especially history. The information given to a passive audience is forgotten as soon as possible. When high stakes testing included history, the results would reveal that the future of this nation knew extraordinarily little about the past and how the country got to where it is.
By Kathy O'Neill4 years ago in Education
A Day in the Life Teaching Remotely
I’m not a traditional teacher. I do, however, have several years of experience working in schools with students. I currently work at a high school in our work-study department. Before COVID, I managed the transportation for our program and on average taught a class once a month. Seeing as how students aren’t going to physical work location my role has changed and now my team and I are teaching at least 2 classes a day virtually focused on professional development. I'm sharing my experience to highlight my struggle and the struggle of many other teachers but I also wanted to share the little structure I have found in our chaotic times. Being vulnerable and being human is especially important during these perilous times and I hope a sneak peek into my day, will create some solidarity in knowing, you are not alone.
By Kenneth Woods4 years ago in Education
Benefits of using Digital Technologies along with conventional ways of Teaching and Learning
The fast pace of innovations in data and internet driven technologies in past decade has influenced every aspect of our life. Let it be the way we start our day, plan our day, commute, eat, work, connect with people, interact with people, be social, transact and the way we learn new things.
By Atalbihari Baddar4 years ago in Education
An Open Letter to my Fifth Grade Class
Dear Students, Today I had to pack up all of your things. I thought packing up the classroom would be the hardest part but it wasn’t. The hardest part was packing up all of your stuff knowing I won’t see you again this year. It is really unfair that our year together got cut short. Teachers aren’t supposed to have favorites but you, as a collective group, are my favorite. For lots of reasons.
By Molly Elizabeth4 years ago in Education