When I started at Northern, I had moved to Illinois after having taken a year and a half after high school to figure life out. During that time I took car of my toddler nephew and marveled at the way he learned new information everyday. Now I am forced into that position as well. I am relearning things that I learned in my youth and had forgotten, things that I never knew why they were done the way they were taught. I have learned in classes why becoming a teacher is important to society as a whole. I have also learned to question what I am being told. In History 260 with Dr. Hagaman, we were told to look beneath the surface and question what historians were writing about and the period they are writing in. This advice has aided me in all the classes I have had since that first semester. Have you a had a particular teacher here at Northern who has told you to question what you are being told? Have you had any teachers who have asked you to look at everything in a different way to find the truth? When you decided to become a teacher did you ever want to be like any of the teachers you had growing up?
~Emile
~Emile
I dont ever remember wanting to be like any of the teachers I had in elementary school, but there are teachers that I had in high school that had such an impact on how I view the world, that I knew I wanted to one day teach like them. High school is different than elementary school in that in high school you are becoming an adult and are ready to face and accept truths that maybe you werent ready to face before. I had a couple of teachers that forced me to look at the world or certain aspects of it in a different way or simply to just read between the lines sometimes. I learned things in high school that I will never forget and those things that I wont forget you cant learn about in a book.
ReplyDeleteI dont ever remember ever wanting to be like a teacher i had in grammar school, but i do know that i had teachers in high school that had a profound impact on me and in fact helped influence me into wanting to be a teacher. there were quite a few teachers in high school that i will never forget for their passion of certain things and their passion for wanting us to find the truth in things. one of the most appealing things to me about being a teacher is the positive impact that i know i can have on them.
ReplyDelete-Jody Farrell