My first belief is that the way that the teacher sets up and runs the classroom is key to maximum amount of learning for the students. In order to do this, I will set my classroom up in groups or tables instead of rows. This will help build a community between my students and I, as well as, my students with each other so that they will feel comfortable enough to have a discussion about topics and expand their knowledge without relying on me for information to be memorized instead of internalized. My second belief is that students should not be as quickly “diagnosed” with learning disabilities as they are, just because they don’t do as well in school as other students. There are many other factors that apply that could be the reason for students to do poorly in class. For example, my friend from high school had parents that were never around because they were always working and didn’t care how he did in classes. My school got permission from his parents to do testing for a learning disability because they knew he was a bright kid but was never doing good in classes. Eventually they gave up because there was nothing wrong with him except for his worth ethic. I feel like schools try to find something wrong with students so that they won’t look as bad when their scores are lower than they should be. When I become I teacher, I will make sure that if I see a student struggling, I will make sure that they are doing the best they can before suggesting to their parents that they undergo testing. My third belief is respect. Students must respect the teacher and other students and the teacher must respect their students. If the teacher doesn’t respect their students, they can’t expect the respect in return from the students. My seventh grade math teacher had no respect for our class and they had no respect for her. In return, we didn’t learn much in that class and spent most
My first belief is that the way that the teacher sets up and runs the classroom is key to maximum amount of learning for the students. In order to do this, I will set my classroom up in groups or tables instead of rows. This will help build a community between my students and I, as well as, my students with each other so that they will feel comfortable enough to have a discussion about topics and expand their knowledge without relying on me for information to be memorized instead of internalized. My second belief is that students should not be as quickly “diagnosed” with learning disabilities as they are, just because they don’t do as well in school as other students. There are many other factors that apply that could be the reason for students to do poorly in class. For example, my friend from high school had parents that were never around because they were always working and didn’t care how he did in classes. My school got permission from his parents to do testing for a learning disability because they knew he was a bright kid but was never doing good in classes. Eventually they gave up because there was nothing wrong with him except for his worth ethic. I feel like schools try to find something wrong with students so that they won’t look as bad when their scores are lower than they should be. When I become I teacher, I will make sure that if I see a student struggling, I will make sure that they are doing the best they can before suggesting to their parents that they undergo testing. My third belief is respect. Students must respect the teacher and other students and the teacher must respect their students. If the teacher doesn’t respect their students, they can’t expect the respect in return from the students. My seventh grade math teacher had no respect for our class and they had no respect for her. In return, we didn’t learn much in that class and spent most