Everything is changing so quickly. I can barely keep with with everything going on! I keep thinking how things are going to change in the future, but the future is already here. Technological advances are happening now, it is not something we have to wait for. Of course this means we will be using this technology in our every day lives, school is just a part of life this will be integrated into.
Every week I get more and more overwhelmed. Being a teacher seemed easy to me when I was school. The teacher would talk, grade papers, then answer any questions about homework. That is not what a teacher is. Teacher's, if they are in the field for the right reasons, are wonderful. They have such big hearts for us. They could sit there and test us and do nothing else. Technically they would not being doing anything wrong, their job is to teach the material. The ones whose hearts are truly in this try to have every one of their students understand. They not only want to see their students pass, but they want them to grow as a person. I want to be that. I will be that kind of teacher. I am not doing this because I absolutely love the material I am teaching. I am doing this because I want to watch my students grow and help them along their way. Teaching is so important, I just never realized how big of an impact teachers have on so many lives until now.
I completely agree with what you said in the first paragraph. What is more freighting, in my opinion is that the way we were taught is obsolete. How we were taught in elementary school is ten years obsolete, how we were taught in middle school is five years obsolete, and how were taught in high school and in college is just now or will be soon obsolete. It’s hard to imagine that we have to master a new technology before it even exists. We have to stay ahead of the curve.
ReplyDeleteIt's very strange to realize that some those futuristic dream we had as kids are now here. Technology has improved so quickly and efficiently. I also agree that the difference between a teacher and a good teacher is if their heart is in it. A teacher is so much more than what a student can observe on the surface.
ReplyDeleteI am very overwhelmed too, Brittany. I used to think becoming a teacher would be fairly simple. I am realizing now that it's not that easy, and with the education system changing so rapidly, it's going to be even harder. But when we get into our first classroom, and we see our students learning and growing we will look back at this experience and know it was worth it.
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