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In the future, in my career as a teacher, there are many things that I hope to accomplish. I hope to be a successful teacher and teach them the academics that are needed but I also hope that I am able to teach them many other aspects of life that are important. I hope that I can teach them social skills, manners, and I hope that I can be a good example of these things that I want to teach them. I believe that teachers have a huge impact on a child's life and not only because of the academics that they're teaching them. Children like to copy behaviors of others, especially those who they look up to. I believe that if I can step a good example as a person in the classroom and can help set the children up for being good people. This can be important …show more content…

I have spent a lot of time in the classroom and with children over the past few years. For my ELED 201 class, I have gone into Fruitland primary school and into a kindergarten classroom. I have learned a lot about what kind of teacher I want to be and many different skills of teaching. This experience has shaped my thought and view of what kind of teacher I want to be. I've been able to see many different teaching strategies and ways to work with the students. It's helped me see different ways I would like to teach and how I would like to be as a teacher. The teacher whose classroom I'm in has been teaching for over 30 years, she's very experienced and I can learn a lot from her. I've seen how she reacts to the children who aren't listening and it has helped me learn how to react to that as well. For example, something that I have learned is that different students need to be helped or disciplined differently than others. There is a student who acts out a lot be she simply ignores him, the class has learned to do the same and he stops acting out without being told to stop. Although there is another student who will act out …show more content…

I've learned the importance of discipline the students and how these things can teach them how to act. It's shown me how teachers don't only just teach academics but they also teach life lessons as well. Becoming a teacher who is able to successfully educate my students while, at the same time, teaching them to be good people at the same time is my ultimate goal. I hope to be a good example to my students and hope that setting a good example will teach be able to teach them to respect others and have good manners. I hope to look at what I've learned in this class, especially from Paley's book "You Can't Say, You Can't Play", she sets a good example of how important it is to teach her students about things other than academics. If a teacher doesn't set a good example it can negatively affect the students. I hope that I can take what I have learned in class and with the students and use these things to become an even better teacher. Throughout my future career, I hope that I can continue to learn even more information and strategies like these that can help me become an even better

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