I’ve wanted to be a teacher for as long as I could remember. Originally, I wanted to teach to make a difference in the lives of others, but I didn’t really know how I was going to do that. I had only wanted to be another resource for students, but to be just that isn’t enough. I need to do something more and be something more. For me, I think the most important thing I’ve learned from this course is from John Dewey. The students need to be able to connect their learning to their everyday lives, or else they aren’t going to see the information as meaningful. In my field experience, Mr. Jacobs always has topics that pertain to his students, and makes them learn by relating it to them. He’s had topics for science like, “Describe how the Black
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Jacobs tells me that there are students who have been abused by their parents, whose parents won’t get phone calls home about their students because they won’t care, won’t listen, or are too high or drunk to comprehend what’s going on. This relates back to why I want to make my students know that I care for them. They might not have someone at home or in their life who’s a good influence on them, much like the students Ms. Gruwell has in Teach with your Heart. Her students feel comfortable to go to her for whatever they need because they know that she’s someone who cares about …show more content…
Jacobs, as he tells his students he wants to see them succeed, that it’s his job to get them to the next level. He’s told his students “I’ll do everything I can to get you to the 8th grade,” putting the responsibility on himself instead of them. I would have to make sure to differentiate between the students needs, as Mr. Jacobs does when he tells his students, “I’m not trying to drill it into you that you have to go to college, I just want you to get an education so you can make a living.” I would have to realise that every student is very different from the next, and I would have to specialize the learning towards all of them, whether they understand the material when I teach it to them the first time, or if I need to explain it to them in three different ways in order to get them to understand what I want them to
Jacobs tells me that there are students who have been abused by their parents, whose parents won’t get phone calls home about their students because they won’t care, won’t listen, or are too high or drunk to comprehend what’s going on. This relates back to why I want to make my students know that I care for them. They might not have someone at home or in their life who’s a good influence on them, much like the students Ms. Gruwell has in Teach with your Heart. Her students feel comfortable to go to her for whatever they need because they know that she’s someone who cares about …show more content…
Jacobs, as he tells his students he wants to see them succeed, that it’s his job to get them to the next level. He’s told his students “I’ll do everything I can to get you to the 8th grade,” putting the responsibility on himself instead of them. I would have to make sure to differentiate between the students needs, as Mr. Jacobs does when he tells his students, “I’m not trying to drill it into you that you have to go to college, I just want you to get an education so you can make a living.” I would have to realise that every student is very different from the next, and I would have to specialize the learning towards all of them, whether they understand the material when I teach it to them the first time, or if I need to explain it to them in three different ways in order to get them to understand what I want them to