Mrs. Hoover's Analysis

Mrs. Hoover became a teacher because she enjoys working with people. She believes that you must creative, flexible, part actor, part lawyer, and have a great sense of humor to be an effective teacher. Her philosophy centers around providing the avenue her students need to learn, as well as teaching her students how to think. She believes that memorization is limiting, but that teaching students how to critically think provides her students with unlimited opportunities in life. Her goal for her students is for them to gain understanding of the concepts and how to apply those concepts. Mrs. Hoover understands that everyone learns differently, so she strives to be aware of her students' learning needs. Mrs. Hoover is confident in her abilities to …show more content…
Mrs. Hoover states that it is important to communicate the students strengths and the weaknesses. From experience, she has found that the parents and students often respond better when she first communicates the positive qualities, before introducing the areas that need attention. Mrs. Hoover indicates that the worst part of teaching is the stress of the testing outcomes. Each year, the testing criteria gets more difficult. One student not passing the testing affects the entire school. Mrs. Hoover is further frustrated that special education teachers are spending a large portion of their work day writing tests for each student, while the aides are teaching the students. Mrs. Hoover admits that she had no idea how much work went into teaching, and each year the work load becomes more cumbersome and the expectations become higher. Mrs. Hoover says that at the beginning of each school year, both the teachers and the students begin worrying about passing a test in March. The pressure put on the students to pass the test is high. Mrs. Hoover believes that the stress of failing the tests and letting the school down is too much of a burden for these young students. She feels that the