Friday, February 23, 2007

Why do we teach?

i want to be a teacher because i feel this is the way i can make the biggest difference in peoples lives. i want to be a good influence for our children for the next generations. i had many teachers make an influence in my life and many teachers have helped me through many hard times in my life. parents are the biggest influence but when parents are not around for students, they can look to their teachers for support. if i can help one student and make a difference in their life, that would be the biggest accomplishment i could get.
good teaching is when the student and teacher make a relationship is when good teaching is occuring. every teacher that i ever had a relationship would help me in my classes. i would look forward to going to these classes and would want to succeed for them because i truely knew they wanted me to. it made such a difference to me. if the class was one that i was not interested in, if i had a good relationship with my teacher then i would still be more stimulated in the class, i would look forward to talking to the teacher about what was going on in my life when i went to class and enjoyed being in the classroom with them.

PE Marching Band and Sport Waiver

I want to teach because i want to help other kids. I want to be a health and PE teacher because i feel that these two classes get taken for granted and schools are starting to cut PE or give students an easy way out. The schools give the kids the choice at the high school level to take a sport waiver or "PE Marching Band." This means that the students get the choice to get credit for the PE class without taking the class. This is not a good thing. With the way that obesity is taking over our country, students need to have PE in their lives so that they can learn about different excersize strategies and what is best for them to work out in. If students are not getting this information and develpoing healthy habits when they are young, they are more likely to never develop the habits and therefore their children have a better chence of becoming unhealthy. This causes a downward spiral for our society. I am against students waivering out of PE whether they are an athlete or not. This is an experience that every student must have in their lives.

Sunday, February 11, 2007