My Beliefs

Being able to teach children is definitely one of the most rewarding experiences I have been involved in throughout my life. Growing up I was able to go to school and learn from some truly amazing teachers and my parents. They helped me to become who I am today by teaching me strong moral values and giving me the education I would need to succeed.

During my field experience I was again impressed with the new upcoming generation of students. These students were bright and very curious and not afraid to explore new ideas. I loved to see them think, form ideas, and also use their imagination to solve and answer the questions we gave them. They came up with some great answers, ones we hadn't thought of, but most importantly, they were not afraid to try, and possibly make a mistake.

I also loved seeing all of the new technology in the school. Our school was fairly new so it was wired with all the latest technology in the classroom. I thought it was interesting to see how they could quickly and efficiently give attendance, and order the class lunch selections, and get the daily announcements over the link to the office. There were some glitches in the process, but once these are worked out I thought this was a highly effective way to manage the school. I thought it would be very beneficial to train the teachers more in the technology so they would be able to use these tools to their full potential.

I also enjoyed seeing how the students loved to see the digital story. Our classroom had a very sterile environment. There wasn't art displayed on the walls, and there weren't any "frills". Our cooperative teacher was very focused on teaching, this wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, however, I did feel that our students would have benefited from having more experience with the arts, or at least bringing an aspect of art into the other lessons. By just including some music into our digital story, social studies took on a whole new idea, and they loved it.

Education is one of the most important and life altering experiences a person will go through during life. I look forward to finishing my degree in education and being able to help my students gain the knowledge they will need to make a difference in the world, and most importantly to prosper, be successful, and happy in life.