I’ve learned so much just by observing them through my service- learning. I’ve also learned things about myself. Patience is a good skill to have when working with younger students. Sometimes I have too much patience such as I wait and wait for the student to come back to his or her seat after they say they will be right back. When really I need to speak up and tell them to come sit back down or follow them when they ask to get up. I try to always have a smoothing tone so I don’t upset the student and I always welcome them when they come into the room. I find it is important for me to start practicing the methods and attitudes I want to have as a future teacher. A challenge I found is not raising your voice. There are many incidence where a student does not feel like working or is in a bad mood. It then becomes hard to reason with that student, and from what I learned it is better to be calm in these situations and not raise the tension. Which can be frustrating because we all have those moments where we want to use our big voice but that doesn’t always help the situation. When I walk through the halls I always hear teachers raising their voice and quite frankly it scares me, so imagine how that teacher’s students
I’ve learned so much just by observing them through my service- learning. I’ve also learned things about myself. Patience is a good skill to have when working with younger students. Sometimes I have too much patience such as I wait and wait for the student to come back to his or her seat after they say they will be right back. When really I need to speak up and tell them to come sit back down or follow them when they ask to get up. I try to always have a smoothing tone so I don’t upset the student and I always welcome them when they come into the room. I find it is important for me to start practicing the methods and attitudes I want to have as a future teacher. A challenge I found is not raising your voice. There are many incidence where a student does not feel like working or is in a bad mood. It then becomes hard to reason with that student, and from what I learned it is better to be calm in these situations and not raise the tension. Which can be frustrating because we all have those moments where we want to use our big voice but that doesn’t always help the situation. When I walk through the halls I always hear teachers raising their voice and quite frankly it scares me, so imagine how that teacher’s students