After watching the video Do you teach or do you educate, I strongly understood the difference between the two. In my opinion an educator is way more powerful and helpful. Our students do not need someone to only show them how to do things, but someone to actually educate them and be more than just a teacher. An educator can be a mentor, helper, and teach students all in the same aspect. I believe educators have a stronger impact on their students lives.
I now see that I became an education major to become an educator not only a teacher. I plan to be a mentor for all of my students. I'm willing to stay after school and help any students who need extra help. Going above a beyond the usual to help your students is a great example of being an educator. I want to be that one educator who gave their students that extra push. I plan to go deeper than the surface of my students knowledge.
Tom Johnson's Don't let them take pencils home, is a blog post that is considered a must read for all teachers. This blog post was based on an argument about pencils. In the beginning my thought was what is the problem with students and pencils. The academic specialist came to Tom Johnson with an demand that students were not allowed to take pencils home anymore. According to a journal article, students who used pencils at home had lower standardized test scores.
Mr. Johnson disagreed with the need to completely stop students from using pencils at home. His argument was that many students from low income places believe that pencils are for entertainment and use them as toys. Although the students had this perception of pencils, he had a way of changing that. He planned to encourage both the students and parents to use the pencils for learning in a different way. Mr Johnson never argued with the journal article, but he wanted to change the thoughts of the article.
This blog post was very amazing to me. I understood what Mr. Johnson was trying to propose to the specialist. As teachers, I believe we should all take this attitude into our classrooms. There will be many problems with things in the classroom, but we need to focus on a solution. Instead of deleting the issue, we can find a way to solve it. Mr. Johnson was finding a way to solve the problem the classroom.
Jasmine,
ReplyDeleteWhile I enjoyed reading your post, I also found several errors. There were errors in grammar and spelling such as: "who needs extra help" which should be need. Also when you said "Tom Johnson's Don't let them take pencils home, it a blog post that is considered a must read for all teachers", I think you meant "it" to be "is", but this sentence is confusing. Who considers it a must read? If you do, then tell us that this is your opinion! Then we know more of how it affected you, even in your introduction.
Also, in the first segment, if you make a statement like this: "I strongly understood the difference between the two", then elaborate. You could have done so by placing this sentence directly after it "I believe educators have a stronger impact on their students lives". The same is true of this sentence: "I plan to go deeper than the surface of my students knowledge". Please tell us how you will do so! This is vague and unclear.
Lastly, while your description of "Mr. Tom Johnson"'s post was informative, you missed the metaphor that pencils equal technology. What traditional tools and tasks, like pencils, does technology replace?
Keep up the hard work,
Carly
I enjoyed reading your post, but I was confused the same way Carly was. I agree with the input that Carly mentioned on your grammatical errors and the two sentences that were misplaced. Keep working harder because your hard work and dedication will pay off in the long run.
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