Hi future teachers,
Welcome to ENGL485a!!!
Those who survived grammar300 with me will know that we always have a class blog :)
Here, you are going to post your opinions about different education-related articles we will read during this semester.
When I grade your blogs, I will pay attention to content, critical thinking, AND grammar/mechanics! Your comments about research articles we have read should be mini essays of about 500+ words. Our first blog is easy:
Please post a short introduction to yourself (who you are, why you want to be a teacher, if you have previous teaching/tutoring experiences, your hobbies, your favorite grade levels, etc.). This post only needs to be 100-250 words long. Please sign into this blog (on the top right) with your signin and password (see your syllabus!), and post your response as COMMENT at the bottom of this thread.
Hello students, I'm your German English teacher :-0)
ReplyDeleteWelcome to our methods class about how to teach high school kids writing! I've taught at CCHS as a student teacher from 2006-07 during the MAT program and have a "little" insight in how it works with teenagers... Not as much as you're going to get!!! I myself prefer the more adult learner, and thus have taught ENGL101, 102, 290, 300, and 485a since fall 2007.
If you ever find out that the little kids are too stressful, come back and get your M.A. and Ph.D., and teach college level :) With your education, nothing can go wrong, you can always build up!! I'm curious to see what has drawn you into teaching. It cannot be the money :) What do you love about it?
I love teaching because most of my friends are professors, my mother was a special ed teacher back in Germany in the 1960s/70s (mostly for gypsy kids who lived in car wrecks, and other disadvantaged children), and because I didn't know what else to do with all the languages I learned during my M.A. as a translator. My most rewarding teaching experience was teaching an 11th grade German honors class at CCHS. We read Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank in German, and Parzifal (a medieval book about knights). I was free to design the whole curriculum myself. What a joy! The kids got to pick the topics. I just love to create fun assignments and wicked tests!
The reason why I don't teach high school anymore is that I struggled too much with classroom management. I guess you guys will make it much easier for me....
What makes you want to teach?