I interviewed a childcare teacher engaged in the Early Childhood Development. She graduated from East Tennessee State University. She has been intrigued by children her entire life, she has volunteered with children with disabilities and worked with children since age 16. You can say that teaching has been a dream job of hers. Going through the interview I went through a series of questions as follows. What are positive and negative parts about being a teacher? What disciplinary styles work the best? And how can teaching in America be improved? She explained positive parts about being a teacher as being able to do what you love with growing children. As children go through stages of development, it is a good feeling to see what they are going to become in the future. She explains the bond she has with her students as one of the greatest feelings in the world. In early childhood, being their first teacher can have a major impact on how well they are going to do. Being able to create a good well-educated start to education is important. She explained that she wants to be able to educate children in the best way she can because the outcome of seeing them succeed is amazing.
Some negative parts about being a teacher is seeing the children you have bonded with move on in their growth in development. Being a teacher, you will see many kids come and go and she explains it as seeing your own kids move on in life and not being in their life the remainder of their development.
She told me that the hardest thing she has ever had to do was teach children that are abused or just not taken care of. I can understand how that would be hard for anybody to do but for a teacher to see it every day must be extremely hard. She told me that another difficulty of teaching is trying to meet some of the standards that parents expect out of a teacher. It is almost impossible to please every parent of the children you teach. Another difficulty we talked about was you will have some kids who can already write some letters and know basic skills like the ABC’s and some math but then you will have some kids that do not know anything and you are expected to bring them up to speed with the other kids as well as teach them everything else they are going to need to know to progress to the next
Ms. Rose became a teacher because she enjoys helping children, and gets a fulfilling feeling when she does. She enjoys that teachers have summers and weekends off, unlike a job that’s all year round. Having time off will benefit her in the future when she has children, as she will be able to spend more time with them than someone with a different job. Before deciding to become
I asked Mrs. Barkley if she worked with other teachers to plan and jointly facilitate learning; she told me that she personally does not. She said that she never combines classes or teaches with another teacher in the same classroom. She said the only thing that the teachers do together is come together in meetings and discuss progress of their classes and test scores. This came as a shock to me, I thought that teachers would be meeting often to combine curriculum in a way that’s meaningful. I thought that teachers would want to allow for cross-curricular projects to allow students to make the connections between subjects. When I am a teacher, I would like to work with other teachers to jointly facilitate learning, if possible.
Developing assessments that align with core language instruction will assist English learners in progressing the skills needed to acquire English. As I interviewed each of my colleagues, I was able to gain a better understanding of how to assess while providing quality instruction to my English learners.
This past week, I was honored to interview my teacher, Professor Lysaught. He is a outstanding math instructor at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills, Illinois. It was a wonderful motivational experience to hear his career change journey. Without a doubt, he instantly became one of my mentors.
A teacher is truly like an extension of a mother. She is warm and caring, kind and loving, strict and stern, yet never cross. She’s always giving up her time to make the most of the ones she loves. She is one of the first people to greet my child's face in the mornings, and one of the last to send them on their way at the end of the day. She fills my child's brain with positive thoughts to expand his mind and set him up for a bright, bright future. She gains his trust throughout the year. He confides in her and shares his inner most secrets. She sets him straight when he misbehaves and redirects his actions in a thoughtful and friendly manner. She has high expectations of her little ones, and sees that they fall nothing short of them. Her children respect her and she respects them.
Though there were many interviews ranging from elementary to high school teachers who teach gifted children, I chose to reflect on the elementary teacher. I thought this information was the most beneficial to me since I am in an elementary school. The elementary gifted teacher gave me a lot of insight about many of my students and what to expect in their future. The gifted program in the elementary school is from first through fifth grades. Many students are not tested in kindergarten because they want to make sure the giftedness is truly there not just high achieving tendencies. Some students may test at the end of their kindergarten year, but they do not start being served in the gifted program until first grade.
At Lakes High school located in Lakewood, Washington, I had the pleasure to interview Kirsten Lawson at Exploring Art teacher. With this visit, the front desk had recognized me and knew that I was there for another interview. The displays in the administration building have changed due to Ms. Fortune class. The cases were filled with the anthropomorphic bust that Ms. Fortune call was working on during my last visit.
In this teacher interview it was interesting to see the viewpoint of a teacher who has been teacher for five plus years. They teach elementary education, which is the major I currently am in. Seeing their perspective of how elementary education helped to prepared me on what to expect when I begin to teach. This teacher interview would help me in my future classroom with my classroom management, motivating students, and how to communicate with the parents. This teacher classroom management has rules that she tells the students often as a reminder. The main rule she likes her students to follow is to treat other as you would like to be treated.
According to the union contract, we cannot tell a teacher how to teach. We can guide them and encourage them to follow the district’s pacing guides but they do not necessarily need to. They must cover the state standards for the subject area though. If a teacher seems to be lost or is not following the district’s pacing guide, we often try to pair them up with someone teaching the same subject in order to encourage them stay on
Sounds great! We will all plan to be there for parent teacher interview. I think you nailed it right on school has been really easy prior to him and he never really had to put in any effort or work. General, he hasn't had to work hard at things as they came easily to him including sports. He was reading and had a head start in math and writing before he started JK. We are constantly talking about the future and how working hard will payoff. I try to keep him motivated and confident, but not sure if that's making a difference. If there is anything you recommend to help him get motivated I'm open to suggestions lol.
Teachers play a very important role in kids’ lives. It's hard work to be a teacher. If the teacher is good at their job it makes the students motivated to learn, if they’re a bad teacher it makes the students hate the subject and hate learning.
For this assignment I’ll be interviewing Jessica Garza, my uncles five-year long girlfriend and a wonderful seventh grade teacher. I hope to learn a lot about her job because it is something I’m interested in doing myself, also I hope to learn about the work it took to get there, her plans for the future and how she became successful.
On Tuesday October 3rd my fellow classmates and I had another opportunity to interview a teacher. However, this time the interview went a little different than the first one.The teacher who we interviewed not only has taught students for many years but he has also been able to see other areas besides teaching. This has led him to appreciate the teaching profession a lot more. Mr Gibson, whose parents were farmers grew up in the Bronx of New York. He is a licensed lawyer who worked in the field for 20 years. After retiring from working as a lawyer Mr Gibson decided that going back to teaching would be best for him. So, that's what he did. Mr Gibson is experienced teaching in elementary schools, middle schools, high schools and even special ed classes.
I had the honor of interviewing my mentor and field experience teacher who is a high school teacher. During my interview, I found out some background information about her. She has worked at Seventy-First High for about 10 years. She has also previously worked in elementary and middle schools but enjoys teaching at high schools. She graduated from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She is 40 years old and has been teaching for the past 16 years. She is an English teacher as well as the school's speech and debate coach. She chose to become a teacher because she truly thought that every child has the ability to learn and to be taught. She strives to make sure that the students she teaches don’t endure the hardships of having a teacher that does not care about them or whether or not they are actually learning. The most common type of family violence she deals with is child abuse.