Do You Teach or Do You Educate?
After watching this video, Do You Teach or Do You Educate?, I can see that there is a big difference between being a teacher and being an educator. I fully intend on being an educator. This video compares and contrasts a teacher and an educator. It talks about the teacher first and gives a few simple definitions: to show or explain how to do something, encourage someone to accept as a fact or principle, give information about or instruction in, cause someone to learn or understand something, and to induce by example or punishment to do or not do something. I plan on leading my students to their future and do everything within me to help them succeed not only in the classroom but also in their lives. Educators are people that you can trust and confide in and I want my students to see me in that light. I want my future students to know that with the power of knowledge they can achieve anything. I want my future students to know that even if no one else believes in them, I will be there to support them. The way that I see it is, I will be a stepping stone for my students. My job as an educator is to help my students succeed in life so they may help me in life as well, because like they all say our children are our future.
Don't Let Them Take the Pencils Home
This post, "Don't Let Them Take the Pencils Home", was entertaining, yet it is sad to know that this stuff really happens. Gertrude, the "School Curriculum Instructional Interventionist Academic Specialist" storms into Tom's classroom ranting about PENCILS. How we go about doing that is where things get fun. Not all students can just come in and listen to you lecture and understand, but everybody has a way to learn. It might be tough at first to figure it out but once they do things start clicking and they feel good about themselves and want to continue learning. It is important that we keep our students entertained while teaching them. I believe it’s time for teachers, parents, and administrators to stop viewing technology as a source of distraction. We must realize that in our society of ever evolving technology, it will be and already is a norm in our classrooms.
You have a great blog here but I would like to know specifically what you would do in your classroom to help your students succeed? I agree that the difference between a teacher and educator is uncanny. After taking Dr. Strange's class, I know, for sure, that some of the methods and techniques are going to help me with my kids. As I said before, what are you going to do to help your students succeed?
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ReplyDeleteGood job on this post, but I am not quite sure you got the sarcasm of "Tom Johnson's" blog post. Did you get that pencils were really supposed to be computers and technology?