Long Term Goals In The Classroom

While teaching in the classroom, you want your children to develop long-term goals. Long-term goals or skills can include developing communication skills, complex cognitive skills, and a safe/positive environment for the children to learn. Also, you want your children in your classroom to gain positive relationships with their peers. Therefore, you want your children to be socially and emotionally ready for the upcoming stages in their life. Children being in a safe and positive environment makes them feel comfortable and helps them learn and develop new skills. As a teacher you can further work on initiatives to help grow your students ' self-esteem and encourage an ongoing success. You can accomplish this task by working on consistently …show more content…
In my opinion, children should be taught according to interest and play. Children that have interest in what they are doing, tend to learn more and interact with what they are working on better. Centers are a great way for children to learn and interact with their peers. Often time’s children get bored with repetition, as a teacher I would rotate different items in and out of the centers so they would have different items to interact with each week. Many people do not think children learn through play, however there are many ways they learn through centers. Dramatic play will give children opportunities to role play as adults in everyday situations and a variety of different careers. Block center improves their motor skills, problem solving, and social interaction. A block learning center will also teach children the basics about engineering and architecture concepts. There are many more centers that you could put in your classroom to help your children learn, these are just a few that I think are great in …show more content…
Also, I will interact with the students, to see what different techniques the children need to work on cognitively. Hands on activities are a great way for social interaction and cognitive development. In conclusion, I have discussed and gave different ways that I believe children should be taught and goals that I would accomplish. Also, I have gave personal characteristics that will help you teach and work with young children. In my opinion children learn better when they are interested in the material. Centers is also a good way for children to learn and gain social interaction. In the different centers it will give children opportunities to role play as adults in everyday situations. These are some of the different ways that I believe children should be