Taught to Teach

The Way I’ve Been Taught to Teach As I’ve grown up, living in the same household as a public school teacher can be good and bad. Bad because you’re automatically holds you to a higher standard when your mother is part of a large school district, or at least that what she used to tell me. There are also some benefits. And if you look at it from my point of view since I plan on pursuing into education, having your mom as a teacher isn’t half bad. You get to learn some of the tricks to getting a classroom to learn best. One example my mom has done in her classroom before was putting the children into pods. Where four desks would face each other to form a large square. This method was used to help support group work and to improve communication and interaction between the students. By working in groups it would but it also improves their thought process by the students trying to figure the questions out on their own instead of directly asking the teacher first when they see a question they are not able to do immediately. Another method that involves the one I already stated is rotating the groups to new areas. This I like for two reasons. It is a way to get the blood flowing faster from when they were sitting down, which will increase the blood flow to the brain. The second, is that an average person cannot pay attention for more than twenty minutes at a time, and if you’re and A.D.H.D. student like myself it feels like that time should be cut in half. So by getting the students up and moving around after about ten to fifteen minutes of work, they can get up and move around for one to two minutes, sit back down, and then refocus on a new set of questions or activity. After going and watching my mother I can still remember the faces on those kids when she taught. They were always smiling and having a good time and I didn’t understand why. When I went to school I never felt that way, I didn’t think school was fun. And not only were they having fun, they were learning and retaining it. Although now I realize why they were now that I’m older. It wasn’t about what my mom was teaching, it was about how she taught it. A good teacher can take any subject and make it come to life. For example I know at the beginning of this year I was dreading that I had to take a fourth year of English, and somehow in a matter of eighteen weeks, she has me loving English again, and making me want to pay attention to lectures. And my mom was able to do that to but she was able to do it to children of a younger age and giving them a better start. And that’s why I hope when I become a teacher, I can be half the teachers they are and were today, and that my students will be able to learn as well or better than my mother or Ms. Brave taught her students. And I believe that even though I still have at least four more years to learn as much as I can about education, I believe that these two women have taught me to teach.