Philosophy of teaching

Creativity Counts!

What is Creativity? 
  
      Creativity is shown by having your own ideas and coming up with things that are original for you. Teachers can be creative in many ways. They can and do show creativity by there own way of teaching their kids/students. Creativity is mostly shown artistically but can be shown in words or learning methods well in anything really as long as its in a original. 

Why does Creativity matter in education? 

      Creativity is very important in education in my opinion because having your own ways of teaching and expressing things will help you connect with your students more then you'd think. Maybe having that specific way will help not only your students learn what you're teaching but will help other teachers teach their students the way you are. Creativity is also important because it shows how you have a  bigger imagination and not only have one way of seeing things but many different ways.

How do we fix this? 
   
      We can fix the problem of creativity going away by giving the kids/students a chance to come up with their own creative ways of doing things. 

      

Semester Exam

https://www.smore.com/mu5yz

Built for learning?

Ideal learning environmental environment for me :  

                The proper way to seat up a kindergarten class room in my opinion and my mentor teachers is to put them in groups of four. Two kids that are ahead and dont need much help on things and one that is not behind but not ahead either and one that is very behind. This seperation is so that it wont be all ahead kids or all behind kids at one table. Therefore the kids that need help they will have the help at there table, if the teacher cant get to them.

In my opinion classes for kindergarten should be 6 hours. I think 8 is a little too much for there brains. They have to learn so much and some have trouble so i think 6 is just the right amount of time to seperate the TEKS they have to learn. Kindergartens are very inpatient so 8 hours is just too much in my opinion.

PORTFOLIO URL

Here is the link to my portfolio

Lesson Plan

Kindergarten - Math - Counting to 20

OBJECTIVE: Teach the students to count each object up to 20.

Directions:

1. Give student 20 objects

2. Help or count objects up to 20 with them

MATERIALS:

* 20 Cubic blocks *

My first day as an Intern

My first day as an intern was Thursday , October 8. I wore my BCTAL education and training  polo shirt and blue jeans. I felt nervous but very excited when i walked in the room at first. When i first got there they were doing centers so I sat and talked to the teacher about my schedule and important stuff. As they finished there centers i prepared myself to introduce myself to the kids. As i got finished telling the kids a little bit about myself they had to go to computer class. Then i walked them there and Ms.Jameson my advisor showed me around the school. When we got back to the room i helped her get organized as we waited for the kids to get out of computer class. I and Ms.Jameson picked up the kids from there computer class and took them for a potty break. Then it was time for me to go so i left to the bus to meet up with the rest of the interns. I am looking forward to spending more time in helping the students more next week and learning how Ms.Jameson runs the classroom.



Grace Hardeman Elementary
Ms. Jameson's Kindergarten class