Comments on: Learning New Lessons — Tips for Rookie Teachers http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/learning-new-lessons-%e2%80%93-tips-for-rookie-teachers/ Providing HOPE for educators since 2007 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:59:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Danielle D.http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/learning-new-lessons-%e2%80%93-tips-for-rookie-teachers/#comment-2854 Danielle D. Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:13:53 +0000 http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/?p=642#comment-2854 I am about to graduate with a degree in education, and I found this blog very interesting. It's good to see the things that are being drilled into our heads everyday in our classes be written down by someone on the outside. I know that from doing my student teaching alone that organization is so important. In special education we have so much information that if everything is not organized you will fall apart. I also think that being neutral and impartial to your students is a necessity. Not everyone learns and behaves the same and in order to be an effective teacher you sometimes have to look through the child's difficult behavior. I remember teachers showing favor to others when I was in lower level schools, and I HATED it. I do not want to be that teacher for my students! I am about to graduate with a degree in education, and I found this blog very interesting. It’s good to see the things that are being drilled into our heads everyday in our classes be written down by someone on the outside. I know that from doing my student teaching alone that organization is so important. In special education we have so much information that if everything is not organized you will fall apart. I also think that being neutral and impartial to your students is a necessity. Not everyone learns and behaves the same and in order to be an effective teacher you sometimes have to look through the child’s difficult behavior. I remember teachers showing favor to others when I was in lower level schools, and I HATED it. I do not want to be that teacher for my students!

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]]> By: Travis A. Wittwerhttp://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/learning-new-lessons-%e2%80%93-tips-for-rookie-teachers/#comment-2853 Travis A. Wittwer Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:31:45 +0000 http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/?p=642#comment-2853 I think the last bit of advice--be on your best behavior--is the one that is often hardest for new teachers to understand fully. Most people getting into the profession know that you need to be organized, treat people with respect, etc. However, when the day is done, and it is Friday, the idea that you are still a teacher, just out in public, is a hard one for many to grasp. For some, it is hard to grasp because in their previous job that was not an issue--few computer programmers need to worry about this. For some, it is hard to grasp because they are young and a wild life is what they are used to. For some, they do not understand that there is not much distinction between your professional and personal life as a teacher. It is a grey area. This area of what is personal life and what is professional life has had its court cases and disputes over the decades, my favorite being the idea that a teacher could not join an organization/group, for participation on their own time, if the group was not like, e.g., membership in a communist or socialist party group. The choice of the person to join was upheld. However, being drunk in a public beer garden is not in your best interest. Additionally, you are new, you are young...the students are not your friends. I think the last bit of advice–be on your best behavior–is the one that is often hardest for new teachers to understand fully. Most people getting into the profession know that you need to be organized, treat people with respect, etc. However, when the day is done, and it is Friday, the idea that you are still a teacher, just out in public, is a hard one for many to grasp.

For some, it is hard to grasp because in their previous job that was not an issue–few computer programmers need to worry about this. For some, it is hard to grasp because they are young and a wild life is what they are used to. For some, they do not understand that there is not much distinction between your professional and personal life as a teacher. It is a grey area.

This area of what is personal life and what is professional life has had its court cases and disputes over the decades, my favorite being the idea that a teacher could not join an organization/group, for participation on their own time, if the group was not like, e.g., membership in a communist or socialist party group. The choice of the person to join was upheld. However, being drunk in a public beer garden is not in your best interest.

Additionally, you are new, you are young…the students are not your friends.

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