One main purpose of education is for students to learn skills and concepts that can facilitate them in living happy and purposeful lives, in and out of their careers. Its goal is to teach people how to become helpful community members and global citizens, who can make educated decisions and interpretations about the world. Education should motivate students in discovering their personal strengths and weakness and help each build on each.
A main principle of education is to teach students to develop an appreciation for learning so that they will be motivated to learn not only in class but for the rest of their lives. Peoples innate motivated to learn should be supported through teaching techniques and topics of student interest. Then education can positively develop students into positive citizens who will continue to appreciate their life-long learning process.
The roles of a teacher are to set up and facilitate learning in a fun and student centered atmosphere. They are a key of knowledge and should be there for student support, to creating innovative lessons, in guiding students in the right direction, being an encouraging support for students, making sure students support each other, and holding students accountable for development in their own choices and learning objectives. They should guide and support students in their quest for self-discovery, self motivation, and enable students to draw personal relevance from material learned. Teachers must be passionate about helping children achieve their highest potential while being caring, understanding, creative, fun, approachable, and relatable.
There are many ways in which these ideas and beliefs can be manifested in actual classroom practices. Children at birth are intrinsically motivated to make sense of the world and their place within it. Teachers should make education developmentally appropriate and relate information to student growth and self concept. If students can see a relation between classroom material and their own lives learning will be easily supported and driven by the students themselves. Teachers can bring a classroom to life by introducing the outside world to their students. Teachers should introduce outside individuals and authentic activity into the classroom, so that students can develop interrelated concepts on learned material.
Teacher should work with parents, administrators, and counselors as a cooperative team to improve students&Mac226; physical, mental, and social health development. They should all be a support system to one another and hold each other to the highest standard. Teachers should connect often with them to assess student progress as well as openly and productively offer strategies and methods to better support each student.
Students learn best if the task or problem they are presented with is developmentally appropriate and relevant to their lives. Self initiated and self directed learning is an effective way for children to discover and learn developmentally appropriate and personally relevant information.
Learning that is relevant to ones life also leads to the transferring of learned material into ones long term memory. Some other strategies for moving learning into long term memory are to relate new material to material they already know, elaborate on old information to combine new schemas, re-organize new information, and use new information they just learned. Information also needs to be continuously reviewed and a spiral curriculum should be in place. These learning strategies and learning tactics as well as others should always be in place to help lead in student learning.
With guidance and support every student can learn. People do learn differently, at different rates, and have different backgrounds and experiences. However, the goal of education is to teach and learn to the highest potential of every individual, and everyone is capable of such.
Teaching can be more challenging when students are faced with external factors and hardships. It is important to help students stay motivated in learning and feel supported when other aspects of their lives our being challenged. In this situation teachers need to continuously give support and spend more time on relating the importance of information to their lives. It can be nearly impossible in some situations for students to stay engaged in learning unless they see how what is being learned is important and understand how it will benefit them.
The highest correlation of student achievement is students self esteem. Someone with high self esteem will most likely do well in school. Self concept, external forces, and individuals in ones life attribute greatly to self esteem. Students learn best when they are highly supported in many aspects of their lives by the people that surround them. Teacher, parent, and peer relationships, and how the student views such relationship, affect self esteem more then any other factor. Students learn best when their parents are positively engaged in their life, teachers are supportive, and peers present positive actions and morals.
Teaching is a dynamic, creative, difficult, social, caring, and active career. I have a passion for kids, a desire to improving society, as well as determination and personal experience to give to this cause. For me teaching has always been an innate appreciation and gift that I am honored to make my lifes goal. It is a career that never gets boring, always keeps you on your toes thinking out of the box, and is never the same. It makes me feel good about what I do and who I am, because I am helping others and continuously learning myself. Overall, I have grown up and experienced the hardship and rewards of being a student. I never want a child to have to go through teacher abuse such as I went through as a student. I understand the impact teachers have over children and want to make school and learning a positive experience for them.