Blog Post #9

Mr. McClung's World
What I've Learned This Year Volume-4
These reflections from every year was very interesting to me. The main thing that stuck out to me was how he did his best to set a goal for each school year. The two challenges that he had for this post was to challenge yourself and dance with who you went with the dance with. Teachers should enjoy teaching and do everything that they can to make the students enjoy getting up and going to class everyday. If the teacher doesn't enjoy his job then the students will get bored and dread going. Mr. McClung made a good realization when he came to the conclusion that he would do all that he could to keep the students interested in his class. I can relate with him whenever he talked about how he despised school because the teacher wasn't doing all that they could to keep the classroom exciting.

 

What I've Learned This Year-2011
In this reflection, he went to a little bit higher than just talking about how the students should enjoy going to class. He talked about how as a teacher you should care about what your boss thinks, but not so much that it gets in the way of your teaching. Each teacher should remind themselves everyday that they are there for the students. The students are their number one reason. They should always be the center of attention and anything else should not even be an issue or worth you concerns. Each teacher should try to be their own person and teach in the way that they know best. Everyone has their own ways of teaching just like every student has their own ways of learning.