My name is Bailey Baker, I was born and raised in a small town in Kansas with a graduating class of 32, so I gladly left last July to venture down to Mobile. After graduating high school I attended Butler Community College in Kansas and earned my Associates Degree in Liberal Arts and then decided Kansas was not where I wanted to end up teaching. So even though I will now being going to school for 2 more years than expected and be adding a couple more zeros to my school debit, in the end I am very glad I did the move and now attending USA! My passions are dancing and teaching/ helping others. In high school I was the VP of our business team and the team captain of the dance team so I would say I was good at being a leader and have yet to change that. I am the youngest of 5 and even though people may think that the baby is always the spoiled one, that is absolutely not the case here! Lets just say my parents have taught me you have to fight in what you want, believe in, and what you deserve and that's the only way you will get it, nothing will ever be handed to you, and if it is it is not worth it!
When I first went to college I was a business major with the plan to own my own dance studio and after a semester of accounting I changed back to Education, but hey who does not change their major at least once. I do however, hope that later in life I will be able to go back to school and still get my business degree. I know however that teaching is my destiny. I found a worksheet my mom kept from when I was in Kindergarten that asked " What do you want to be when you grow up?" my answer "A Teacher, just like you (talking about my Kindergarten teacher)." That never changed in tell my senior year in high school when I joined the business team. So I am still a little stuck between Teaching and Management. I think full force that it was all the great teachers I had and all the fun things I can remember doing as a child of why I want to teacher. That and the fact that I have seen so much failure in public school systems due to the "No Child Left Behind Act" and "10 Year" for teachers. I do not like these acts and policies. I think that there were intended to be good and were but then failed over time. I'm not saying it's like this everywhere, but everywhere I have seen the child that doesn't quite get the material gets pushed along due to "No Child Left Behind." Then once a teacher is in 10 you can almost guarantee their care and participation goes down, due to the fact that they can almost do anything and get away with it. I have even had teachers in all age levels Elementary, High and College say "Well I don't care I'm 10 year." I do hope that one day I will be able to change these policies and better Education.
As a teacher I will have the same mine set that I got from me parents, that nothing will be handed to me. I plan on being a guide for young children. Of course teaching them the essentials about school but also life. I will never hand my children (students) anything. They will set goals and I will do whatever I can to help them reach those goals. I plan to be an authoritarian friend to all of my students and wish to be one of the teachers that is revisited by her students years down the road. Just as I did to almost all of my Elementary teachers up until I did the big move down to Alabama.
Some of the things that I plan to do in my classroom is to keep in calm but chaotic at the same time. Organized chaos is good for children I think, and with 20+ young children in one room to yourself, it is hard to keep a fully structured calm room. So if you make it a fun learning environment the children are more open to participating. On an Elementary level I plan to assign responsibilities to everyone each week. This will teach everybody responsibility, participation, teamwork and it will also take stress off of my self and probably many children too. I also plan to use all 7 learning techniques, linguistic, logical, spatial, musical, bodily, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Everyone learns in a different way so I think it is very important to know all these different learning styles and to test the children to see where they are at the beginning of the year.
A few other things I plan to do is to keep all work caught up for the children and for my self. Never get behind and always be positive. Children will always play off of your mood so you can never be in a bad mood and if you are you can not show it because they depend on you! I also hope to have many parent teacher conferences. If the children need it, if the parent needs it or just to get to know the family and background of my students.
RANDY PAUSCH;
I do agree with Mister Pausch that American's waste a lot of time just in general. I know I waste a lot of time trying to figure out what I should be doing. That is why I started to make "to-do lists." I seem to get upset though when I do not get things finished on the list so I am trying to learn to have a relaxed list of things to do in the near future not necessarily have a certain time it needs to be finished. Unless of course it is homework for class.
I loved his saying "..Doing things right, when we should be Doing the right thing."
When I first went to college I was a business major with the plan to own my own dance studio and after a semester of accounting I changed back to Education, but hey who does not change their major at least once. I do however, hope that later in life I will be able to go back to school and still get my business degree. I know however that teaching is my destiny. I found a worksheet my mom kept from when I was in Kindergarten that asked " What do you want to be when you grow up?" my answer "A Teacher, just like you (talking about my Kindergarten teacher)." That never changed in tell my senior year in high school when I joined the business team. So I am still a little stuck between Teaching and Management. I think full force that it was all the great teachers I had and all the fun things I can remember doing as a child of why I want to teacher. That and the fact that I have seen so much failure in public school systems due to the "No Child Left Behind Act" and "10 Year" for teachers. I do not like these acts and policies. I think that there were intended to be good and were but then failed over time. I'm not saying it's like this everywhere, but everywhere I have seen the child that doesn't quite get the material gets pushed along due to "No Child Left Behind." Then once a teacher is in 10 you can almost guarantee their care and participation goes down, due to the fact that they can almost do anything and get away with it. I have even had teachers in all age levels Elementary, High and College say "Well I don't care I'm 10 year." I do hope that one day I will be able to change these policies and better Education.
As a teacher I will have the same mine set that I got from me parents, that nothing will be handed to me. I plan on being a guide for young children. Of course teaching them the essentials about school but also life. I will never hand my children (students) anything. They will set goals and I will do whatever I can to help them reach those goals. I plan to be an authoritarian friend to all of my students and wish to be one of the teachers that is revisited by her students years down the road. Just as I did to almost all of my Elementary teachers up until I did the big move down to Alabama.
Some of the things that I plan to do in my classroom is to keep in calm but chaotic at the same time. Organized chaos is good for children I think, and with 20+ young children in one room to yourself, it is hard to keep a fully structured calm room. So if you make it a fun learning environment the children are more open to participating. On an Elementary level I plan to assign responsibilities to everyone each week. This will teach everybody responsibility, participation, teamwork and it will also take stress off of my self and probably many children too. I also plan to use all 7 learning techniques, linguistic, logical, spatial, musical, bodily, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Everyone learns in a different way so I think it is very important to know all these different learning styles and to test the children to see where they are at the beginning of the year.
A few other things I plan to do is to keep all work caught up for the children and for my self. Never get behind and always be positive. Children will always play off of your mood so you can never be in a bad mood and if you are you can not show it because they depend on you! I also hope to have many parent teacher conferences. If the children need it, if the parent needs it or just to get to know the family and background of my students.
RANDY PAUSCH;
I do agree with Mister Pausch that American's waste a lot of time just in general. I know I waste a lot of time trying to figure out what I should be doing. That is why I started to make "to-do lists." I seem to get upset though when I do not get things finished on the list so I am trying to learn to have a relaxed list of things to do in the near future not necessarily have a certain time it needs to be finished. Unless of course it is homework for class.
I loved his saying "..Doing things right, when we should be Doing the right thing."
Hi Bailey! Wow, you really do come from a small town. I was born and raised in Gulf Shores, AL. with a graduating class of 104. I thought that was small. I hope your liking it here in Alabama so far. I agree with alot of your teaching techniques. I also agree with you 100% on the failed "10 year" and "No Child Left Behind Act". They drive me absolutely crazy. I have actually had teachers in high school tell me that they could not wait to be "10 year" so they could stop caring so much. That always broke my heart to hear because people like that do not really love teaching and I for one would not want someone like that teaching my child one day. Also, another thing I came across when searching on some Board of Education sights, is that all teachers get paid the same (according to their grade level) and the only way they get raises is on the amount of years they teach. This is something I think is a failed action because you could be a horrible teacher with low grades and teach for 5 years and still get a raise. It makes no sense to me.
ReplyDeleteOh by the way, I love your "Organized Chaos" incentive. Its so true!
"That and the fact that I have seen so much failure in public school systems due to the "No Child Left Behind Act" and "10 Year" for teachers. I do not like these acts and policies." I agree! How do we go about changing what is wrong in them?
ReplyDeleteWell written. Welcome to EDM310!
By the way, I think you mean tenured teachers, not "10 year" teachers. Tenure is the practice in the educational world of awarding a life time contract to teachers. This usually happens after 3 years in public schools and 7 years in a college teaching position. After a teacher has tenure it is very difficult to fire them. Tenure is debated often in the United States. The college I started in Massachusetts was remarkable because we did not subscribe to the tenure plan. Within several months of opening, however, we were forced to adopt the tenure system because the K-12 teacher's union threatened political action to undermine or experiment at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. It is an unpleasant memory.
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