My Reflection Of The Educational Goals In High School

If someone would have asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up when I was in elementary school I would have told them that I wanted to become a ballerina. If I was asked the same question in middle school I would have told the individual that I wanted to become a fashion or an interior designer. However, if anyone asked me what I wanted to do after college while I was in high school I would have smiled and said I want to be a teacher. Every time I told someone that I wanted to be a teacher, I never recognized what being a teacher meant or entailed. In high school, I believed that being a teacher meant helping students learn through instruction. Little did I know, that teachers had to attend a credentialing program, pass several assessments, …show more content…
When I first received the curriculum, I began to wonder how I was going to teach the material. As I looked over the lesson plans in each unit it felt as if my role was going to be more of a facilitator than the image society had helped me created of a teacher. Although I survived my first semester of teaching sixth grade math, I still felt as if I lacked the confidence I needed to make each lesson plan meaningful. When I enrolled in CalStateTeach, I learned about the variety of instructional models and began to comprehend that the lesson plans I was implementing adopted an inductive teaching approach. Guillaume explains inductive teaching as the students creating and discovering important ideas through interaction of materials, data sources and their peers (Guillaume 152). One aspect of inductive teaching that I find powerful is that the process of learning is more important than the outcome or product produced at the end of class. By process I mean the strategies students come up with to problem solve through a task. This process shows that students are discovering multiple ways to approach a problem instead of relying on a teacher to tell them “the right