“Teaching: Not My Career of Choice” Throughout my education, it has been evident that when I love something, or I am passionate about it, fulfilment is easy to achieve. My belief is that you cannot get upset at your destination if you first did not plan your journey. Nevertheless, it is okay to plan your career path, and have it change later on in the future. Nothing is set in stone, but knowing your direction will benefit. It is like sailing the ocean and getting upset that you land upon the shores of Japan, but you didn’t know where you were heading in the first place. Having a mental goal or vision of where you want to be in five to ten years is a very fluid idea because life throws different things at us all the time. In my opinion, having
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Although a lot of the information I would be teaching may get be boring for me, there is so many creative ways to teach them the material. In my observation with the grade three class, the teacher used videos, games, PowerPoints, songs, and crafts to teach her students. At the high school level there is only so much time to learn required information for students to do well on their provincials (or diplomas) that relying on the old fashion way of teaching is more …show more content…
With elementary, teachers must learn almost every subject and teach it well. At the high school level, depending on what kind of school you teach at, there is one subject you focus on. And if one day I decide I want to teach secondary students, I can go back to university and complete that as well. Another pro to teaching elementary is that you can see how the students are doing in each subject, and you get to know their strong suits and weaknesses as an individual. While the idea of teaching one subject to high school students seems attractive to some, teaching a variety of subjects at an easier level seems more like my style. Being in this education program has also taught me patience and the value of time. Observations gave a practical outlook on teaching in the sense that sometimes teachers work after work and don’t get paid. I resonated with this because on top of classes and outside of orientation to teaching, we had to do thirty hours of observations. In the workforce, the thirty hours could be the marking of tests and assignments on the weekend, or volunteering to be a supervisor in an extra curricular
Although a lot of the information I would be teaching may get be boring for me, there is so many creative ways to teach them the material. In my observation with the grade three class, the teacher used videos, games, PowerPoints, songs, and crafts to teach her students. At the high school level there is only so much time to learn required information for students to do well on their provincials (or diplomas) that relying on the old fashion way of teaching is more …show more content…
With elementary, teachers must learn almost every subject and teach it well. At the high school level, depending on what kind of school you teach at, there is one subject you focus on. And if one day I decide I want to teach secondary students, I can go back to university and complete that as well. Another pro to teaching elementary is that you can see how the students are doing in each subject, and you get to know their strong suits and weaknesses as an individual. While the idea of teaching one subject to high school students seems attractive to some, teaching a variety of subjects at an easier level seems more like my style. Being in this education program has also taught me patience and the value of time. Observations gave a practical outlook on teaching in the sense that sometimes teachers work after work and don’t get paid. I resonated with this because on top of classes and outside of orientation to teaching, we had to do thirty hours of observations. In the workforce, the thirty hours could be the marking of tests and assignments on the weekend, or volunteering to be a supervisor in an extra curricular