Planning On A Bright Future

This week in class has gotten me very excited for planning instruction for my student teaching experience. I believe that all of the work that I am putting in now, will be well worth it for the knowledge and skills that I will gain from my 15 weeks in a classroom.

A question that I have for my future students would be; what can I do, as your instructor, to show you that you matter to me? After watching the TEDx Talk called "You Matter" it seems that the simplest things can be done to show someone that they matter to you. I want to know what is the best way for me to build this concept into my instructional planning to be better able to serve my students. I would hope that I would always come across as an teacher that is there for the students education and there for them when they need some guidance as well. 

After watching the TEDx Talk entitled "I'm 17" I came up with a question for my cooperating teacher or really any teaching working in Ag Education. How did you gain the respect of the more seasoned Ag teachers when you first started teaching? The whole TED talk was about how those that are older than us believe that we are not as capable or do not know as much as they do. I want to be able to prove to those colleagues that I am able to provide quality instruction and function well as an advisor to an FFA chapter. I believe that if I work hard and continue to reflect and improve upon myself that I will be able to do really incredible things one day.

To my awesome cohort members, I have a question for you all this week as well! Have any of you found any really cool sources for interest approaches? I am not sure if there is some big website out there that is able to give ideas for interest approaches to lessons or not. I believe that coming up with enough different interest approaches will be one of the harder things that we have to do. I think that working together on this would be a big help to all of us!

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  1. LetotSeptember 15, 2021 at 10:17 PM

    great question Dylan! I love you engaging your peers to crowdsource interests. I will add though, that you shouldn't doubt yourself! Often what you find interesting, will be interesting to your students because your enthusiasm for it will be authentic! If you find a cool article in popular mechanics, bring it into class and share it! chances are, a handful of your students will buy in as soon as you show them what's out there.

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