Stoking the Fires Within
“It all stems from attitude” – Wormeli, page 2
Chapter 1 of Meet Me in the Middle called attention to looking at education from the inside out, starting with teachers. Wormeli encourages educators to look at themselves and observe the attitude they are putting forth to their classes. An interesting technique he describes involves picturing your own funeral and imagining what you want people around you to say about your life. Take that image and project it onto the life you live. Wormeli also discusses the importance of communication and listening. He recounts his own experience of miscommunication with a student and uses it as a tool to advise other teachers to experience their class through the eyes of the students.
Synthesis:
From reading the class blogs, it seems as though we all support Wormeli’s push for positive attitude in the classroom, although it may not be 100% responsible for the success of a class. Good communication is key to becoming an effective educator and faculty member. Listening to and understanding your student’s perceptions and reactions to your teaching are essential to your success and, more importantly, your students’ achievement and ability to thrive in the school environment.
Sarah,
ReplyDeleteI liked the link about improving your listening skills. It's always important to be a good listener, and finding ways to improve that skill can be very helpful.
-Erich
I really like the link that directs to you the survival guide for new teachers. And its from a legit resource, being ed.gov. I will definitely utilize this page in the future. Great job!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link for new teachers, we are all getting very close to that time frame and any and ALL sites will be so helpful
ReplyDeleteI really liked the page on listening skills. Sometimes as a teacher (and a person in general) it is more important and beneficial to listen rather than talk. Great job. =D
ReplyDeleteSarah I think your link on listening will be extremely helpful within the classroom. It is very important that all questions and opinions are expressed and this will be a great resource to help within the daily interaction with students!
ReplyDeleteThank you. Great Job.
I really think that the new teacher survival guide is going to be really helpful. This is one area where we will all feel uncomfortable or really awkward and I believe that this site will give wonderful tips. Thanks Sarah!
ReplyDeleteThe second link with the Survival Guide for New Teachers I like how there is a parent-teacher section that relates to the first link on teacher parent collaboration. So many parent tips in just two sites! Awesome!
ReplyDeleteIn your Good Communications link, there are a lot of good and useful internal links that could be helpful for most teachers.
ReplyDeleteThe survival guide for new teachers will come in handy. Thanks for finding that link.
ReplyDeleteCommunication between parents and teachers is really important to help students through the process of learning, great resources!!
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of awesome resources on this site. I'll have to explore this site some more to make sure that I get it all.
Listening is an important skill for teachers and anyone. So there are aome really good rips on this site.
Survival guide for new teachers is certainly something I am going to keep visiting. Seems to have captured a lot of great resources... Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI could use all the survival guides I can get. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteSarah
ReplyDeleteThese links were really helpful, and cool. I really liked the link that is a survival guide for New Teachers. I'm sure that many teachers out there wish they had this when they were new. The improving your listening skills is a good site as well.