Over the past eight weeks, I have learned the work that one put in to become, not just a great history teacher, an effective educator. I certainly have the passion, enthusiasm, and knowledge from previous work experiences. Teachers I have worked with have been warm, accessible, and enthusiastic to their students and seem to do whatever it takes to help, like stay after school or just make themselves available to the students and parents who need them. I never realized the amount of work teachers must do to before hand, like having lesson plans that give students a clear idea of what they will be learning, and the importance organization a teacher must have to be an effective classroom leader. Nowadays, “students report that their history teachers
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I believe that everyone is naturally interested in history; it’s full of all the elements that make great entertainment: drama, war, crime, and fascinating characters. It is a subject students can dive into. Some important ideas I had about teaching history when I started this course was that teachers need to be relatable, they need to inspire their students, and also think about what students are going to take away from your class. For the first question I had written about how I took a variety of classes, like government, history, or ethnics, and that 's when I wound up being interested with the social science major. It was a mixture of many subjects and topics that effect many in my culture and community. Topics and classes that I related to the most were those classes that dealt with social injustices because that is what I knew. After weeks in this course, I have strengthened the importance of making history relatable to students. I really got behind and found that I wanted to learn more about the era not because it was assigned, but because I enjoyed it. I wrote many essays about different topics in the 60s in US …show more content…
Although it seems like some people are meant to be kept down by not being given a fair start, economically and socially, education and knowledge of the world around you transcends this unfair advantage by learning, understand the system around you. In The New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change, authors Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown discusses how students in the 21 first century are living in a world of context, due largely in part with the Internet and other technological advances. Kids today live in a world where they can pull out their phones and have multiple contexts and sources for a certain topic that they 're interested. They argue in favor of a culture of learning approach to education, a system of bounded learning environments that can cultivate and invigorate students’ imaginations, as opposed to the more traditional culture of teaching-based approach to education, which centers around memorization that dates and events. They argued that“students learn best when they are able to follow their passion and operate within the constraints of a bounded environment.” Creating this type of learn environment offers the opportunity to connect what goes on in the classroom more directly to students’ lives and everyday world, and is therefore more relevant and effective. I feel like
I believe that everyone is naturally interested in history; it’s full of all the elements that make great entertainment: drama, war, crime, and fascinating characters. It is a subject students can dive into. Some important ideas I had about teaching history when I started this course was that teachers need to be relatable, they need to inspire their students, and also think about what students are going to take away from your class. For the first question I had written about how I took a variety of classes, like government, history, or ethnics, and that 's when I wound up being interested with the social science major. It was a mixture of many subjects and topics that effect many in my culture and community. Topics and classes that I related to the most were those classes that dealt with social injustices because that is what I knew. After weeks in this course, I have strengthened the importance of making history relatable to students. I really got behind and found that I wanted to learn more about the era not because it was assigned, but because I enjoyed it. I wrote many essays about different topics in the 60s in US …show more content…
Although it seems like some people are meant to be kept down by not being given a fair start, economically and socially, education and knowledge of the world around you transcends this unfair advantage by learning, understand the system around you. In The New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change, authors Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown discusses how students in the 21 first century are living in a world of context, due largely in part with the Internet and other technological advances. Kids today live in a world where they can pull out their phones and have multiple contexts and sources for a certain topic that they 're interested. They argue in favor of a culture of learning approach to education, a system of bounded learning environments that can cultivate and invigorate students’ imaginations, as opposed to the more traditional culture of teaching-based approach to education, which centers around memorization that dates and events. They argued that“students learn best when they are able to follow their passion and operate within the constraints of a bounded environment.” Creating this type of learn environment offers the opportunity to connect what goes on in the classroom more directly to students’ lives and everyday world, and is therefore more relevant and effective. I feel like