PLN #15

Today for my fifteenth PLN I read an article titled "Becoming a Better Teacher" by Drape, basically telling about how teachers can become better teachers by using creativity and knew methods of teaching.


This is what I had to say:

As being a student my self I definitely agree with just about every single point that is on that list. It is the student’s job to come into the classroom everyday expecting to learn, be taught, take notes, and study for quizzes and be the best overall student that they can be. It is the teacher’s job to come into the classroom everyday and be prepared with something to teach the students about and create a learning environment for their students. It is also the teacher’s job to help their students in most ways possible and to make sure and assist them in maintaining the information that they will need for next year and to move on in life. As a student I most likely do not understand what it is like being a teacher but I can imagine that it wouldn’t be very easy to teach thirty to forty students five or six different times a day. Not only do they have to do that but they also have to do it in such a way as to make it creative and interesting for the students. I think it is a good thing that most teachers are open to new ideas on how to teach things as to not bore their students as well as most likely themselves. It is also good because as the times change, teaching changes. We don’t still talk about the same stuff in school as we did fifty years ago, or even when my parents were still in school. Now, my parents don’t even understand any of the stuff I’m doing in math but they can do the same problem in a different way but their way is much harder. Why is the way I’m learning now so much easier? Because teachers have adapted to new, more efficient and creative ways of teaching.