post 2

I think a lot of different options resonate within me to be a responsive teacher. However, I think that the first thing that I need to point out is that I am not yet a teacher. I can have all sorts of ideals and theories on how I will run my classroom and how I will present material etc, however until I have a classroom of my own for a few years I will not be able to fully answer this question, not out of lack of ideas, rather a lack of experience in order to answer this to the best of my ability. That being said, I feel that being a responsive teacher has many positive traits. In the broadest sense of the word responsive, I feel that a teacher should reflect what their classroom is like. Perhaps in one class you have a lot of students who are very opinionated and who want to discuss the material in detail; in your other class, you have students who are very intrinsic and who like to do a lot of reading, or maybe they really enjoy doing presentations and so on. Should all of these classes be taught the same? Absolutely Not. Each class should be taught to the students, because it should be a goal of every teacher to meet the needs of the students and to foster actual learning, not just teaching.

I think that (as mentioned earlier) students need to learn the material and not just be taught. I mean that, in a perfect world at least, students should actually learn and understand the material on a comprehensive level. Too often today students are taught the material on the test and then everything else is simply forgotten, or quickly breezed through.

Honestly, I really like these journal entries. It allows me the opportunity to reflect a lot of important aspects of the education field and it helps me better formulate (or at least begin to form) my educational philosophy.

I am very anxious to see how I will preform as an actual teacher. However, I am also anxious that while I have all of these philosophical ideas about how to run a classroom and how and what a teacher should do in a classroom, but that I will lose these ideas and concepts as I am progress as a teacher and as I, for lack of a better term, get run down I will compromise or give up these ideas and values.