I wanted become an education major because I want to make a difference in my student's lives. Not to just teach my students, but inspire them to do anything they put their minds to. I have never thought about the difference of teaching and educating, until I watched this video. This video pointed out that teaching is basically just explaining something, giving information, and getting someone to pretty much think the way you do. Educating is much more than that. Educating means inspiring, mentoring, and leading. I want to educate. I want my student's to trust me and be able to come to me for anything.
While educating, I hope to lead my students by example. I can tell them all kinds of stories, but they will not fully believe me until I show them. That's why I wanted to become an education major. I saw my teachers as leaders, and wanted to be like them one day. I did have teachers who would just make us read the text book and answer questions at the end of the chapter. The teachers never got involved with the students, and that is what I don't want to be. I want to make my students want to learn, instead of dread it.
Tom Johnson's Don't Let Them Take the Pencils Home!
I loved this blog! Mr. Spencer does a really great job on showing us that instead of eliminating the problem, to use the tool to benefit the students. Instead of fixing the problem, Gertrude wanted to get rid of pencils. The problem with this is, how can pencils make test scores go down? It is not the pencil, it is the teacher. If the teacher is not doing their job, then the student will not pass. Tom uses the pencil to "educate." He said that if his students bring pencils home and play hangman, then he still believes they are learning in some way.
We have to prepare our children for the real world. If we educate them right, then the student will know what to do with a pencil. Instead of playing around with the pencil, students will use pencils for creativity and learning. I don't think that showing our students to eliminate a problem is a good idea. They need to figure out what is wrong, and fix it. Tom does this. He gets his students involved with projects that grab their attention. I am certain that Tom's students test scores will come out successful
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Hello, Daisy!
ReplyDeleteI feel that we are on the same page when it comes to being a teacher and an educator. I want to be both as well. I, like you, want to be remembered by my students. I want to go to high school graduations, and have a student know my name. I want them to have a story to tell me about something we did in elementary school that taught them things that they will never forget. I think that would be an amazing feeling.
First of all, I was really irritated after reading this blog post. I have read so much about the "importance" of standardized testing in different blogs this semester. I just hate the thought of every student being tested as if they are all the same. I agree with you by saying the pencil isn't the problem. I'm not sure if I would say that it is completely the teacher's fault. In some cases, maybe, but I place the blame on the people that need to have these scores at a certain point to keep their jobs. They are the one's pushing all of these standardized issues.
I enjoyed your post; keep up the good work!
Did you understand that Johnson's (Spencer's) commentary was an extended metaphor or allegory in which pencils were computers? It doesn't seem to me that you correctly interpreted what was written metaphorically. Reread the post.
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