As an educator, I believe that I have several strong attributes that make me qualified for this position. I am a leader, knowing that while I will care about all of my students, I am not just their friend. I feel that I am very focused, and that will transfer over to my students once I show them my dedication to teaching them my content area. Lastly, I feel that I am very kind and respectful. My policy with my students will be the idea of "fair, but firm." This means I will treat them with respect, and expect them to act their age and pull their weight during class. But I also have a few qualities that I need to work on. First off, my planning and organizational skills could be better. Also, I feel like that I could be more punctual when it comes to completing my work, as well as checking for little mistakes more often than I am now.
In the next three to five years, I see myself in a high school position teaching business and coaching football and baseball, and will hopefully be on my way to getting tenure. The best way I can achieve this goal is to become as educated and diversified in using technology in my teaching style. Although I want to teach business, it would be very naive to think that I will not need to use technology in my classroom. I will have to constantly push myself to learn new programs, applications, and resources so that I can in turn to help my students to learn what I am teaching. And in order to learn about new software programs, I will have to become very good at organizing and utilizing my time outside of work to learn it. I know that as an educator, the term "free time" isn't something I will have a lot of in my first few years. Hopefully being a coach, I will have to find ways to learn the new software between teaching, practices, games, and other functions outside of the classroom. But even though that may seem difficult, I will have to push through and be diligent in my learning, because if I don't learn it, not only does it not help me, but my students will suffer as well.
I believe that technology is something that will continue to become a necessity in the teaching field. And through this necessity, students' ability to learn can be impacted in a very positive way. Very rarely will you find a student who doesn't know how to use technology very well, and because they do have a good base understanding, it will be easier for me as a teacher to educate them in my field using different tools, programs, and technologies. Each student is different of course, and this is another great reason why technology can be a great impact on their learning. I will be able to see which students are understanding what I'm teaching and which ones aren't. Through this, I can find different ways to get the student to grasp the information if they aren't able to grasp it through the channels I am using with the rest of the class.
Personally, technology has become a daily need in my education. When I was a student in high school, more often than not I was learning out of a textbook or from a lecture. Now, though, I have learned about many different technological tools, programs and resources that can easily enhance my learning abilities, and it is only going to continue to grow from here.
Another great thing about many of these technologies is that I can try to share my knowledge with my fellow faculty members. I know that for the older teachers who have been in education for many years, it may seem scary and difficult to learn how to use the many different programs and tools that are available to help us teach, such as smart phone applications or iPads. The best way I can try to pass along my ideas and encourage the use of technologies is to share my lesson plans, demonstrate how different programs work in different situations, even be willing to meet with them outside of class time and teach them how to use the programs that they may have difficulty understanding.
One of my favorite websites to use for presentations is Prezi. It is a very fun and interesting way to present your information. Instead of going from one slide to the next, each piece of information is all on one slide, and will zoom in and out to each new piece of information. I believe this will keep students engaged better than a normal Power-point presentation. Considering I'll be teaching business, I think this will be a new way to give lectures during class. Another great idea I want to incorporate into my lessons is the use of Google Sites. Since I will hopefully be teaching business, I feel like I could utilize this by having my students each create their own website that they can post their work and notes to. Also, they can visit each other student's site and be able to share some ideas with one another, or critique each other on what could be better on their site.
I feel very confident that if I am hired for this job, then I will push my students to become very advanced in their understanding, knowledge, and use of technology both in and out of school.
In the next three to five years, I see myself in a high school position teaching business and coaching football and baseball, and will hopefully be on my way to getting tenure. The best way I can achieve this goal is to become as educated and diversified in using technology in my teaching style. Although I want to teach business, it would be very naive to think that I will not need to use technology in my classroom. I will have to constantly push myself to learn new programs, applications, and resources so that I can in turn to help my students to learn what I am teaching. And in order to learn about new software programs, I will have to become very good at organizing and utilizing my time outside of work to learn it. I know that as an educator, the term "free time" isn't something I will have a lot of in my first few years. Hopefully being a coach, I will have to find ways to learn the new software between teaching, practices, games, and other functions outside of the classroom. But even though that may seem difficult, I will have to push through and be diligent in my learning, because if I don't learn it, not only does it not help me, but my students will suffer as well.
I believe that technology is something that will continue to become a necessity in the teaching field. And through this necessity, students' ability to learn can be impacted in a very positive way. Very rarely will you find a student who doesn't know how to use technology very well, and because they do have a good base understanding, it will be easier for me as a teacher to educate them in my field using different tools, programs, and technologies. Each student is different of course, and this is another great reason why technology can be a great impact on their learning. I will be able to see which students are understanding what I'm teaching and which ones aren't. Through this, I can find different ways to get the student to grasp the information if they aren't able to grasp it through the channels I am using with the rest of the class.
Personally, technology has become a daily need in my education. When I was a student in high school, more often than not I was learning out of a textbook or from a lecture. Now, though, I have learned about many different technological tools, programs and resources that can easily enhance my learning abilities, and it is only going to continue to grow from here.
Another great thing about many of these technologies is that I can try to share my knowledge with my fellow faculty members. I know that for the older teachers who have been in education for many years, it may seem scary and difficult to learn how to use the many different programs and tools that are available to help us teach, such as smart phone applications or iPads. The best way I can try to pass along my ideas and encourage the use of technologies is to share my lesson plans, demonstrate how different programs work in different situations, even be willing to meet with them outside of class time and teach them how to use the programs that they may have difficulty understanding.
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