From+My+Heart

Dear Mrs. Stocker, Let me just start out by saying that I have enjoyed your class, and I have certainly learned a lot. By making a wiki, I learned that I definitely need more patience. I know that I am the type of person who can usually do stuff right the first time, but that hasn’t always been the case in your class. I have had to go back and fix things many times and I have gotten better about staying calm about it. It still frustrates me, but I doubt that will ever change. From writing my unit, I see that I need more practice on that. This is the first education class I have taken so I hadn’t written a unit before this. I liked the rubric you had us set up for our lesson plans though and Im sure I will use it in the future. I think the thing that I am most proud of is that I completed all the assignments. Some of them gave me headaches as almost all of them were things that I had never done before. But I’m proud of myself for not giving up (even though at time I definitely wanted to). Perseverance got me through this course. Next time I write a unit and use technology I will go through things much slower. I often speed through things but in this class that meant that I often had to go back and watch videos a second time or reread something. I need to learn to slow it down more so that I may fully understand the first time. My biggest concern is quitting. Im not scared of new technology, but I don’t like to work at it if I cant get it right the first few tries. I need to be better about asking questions, instead of always trying to figure things out on my own when I cant. Im honestly a little scared that I will fail as a teacher, or be bad at explaining things. Im learning a lot about teachers through my teachers now that I know I want to be one. Im constantly noting and criticizing things that I like and don’t like about their teaching styles so that hopefully I can be a great teacher some day. ( Don’t worry your teaching styles are on the good list) As far as using technology, I just like learning new things. I have learned how to do so much in this class and I know that there is still much more to learn and im excited to explore that more on my own. I am so excited to teach. I would have been teaching at age 5 if I could have. I just love to see people learn. Im always teaching my family stuff that I learned at school, or showing people better ways to do things. I just like knowing that I was of help to them in an important way. And my heart just melts for kids. I love everything about them and Im excited to get to work with them daily. I definitely want to teach in the 21 century. I know that kids will probably know just as much about technology as I do when I start teaching. Its advancing so quickly and it will be such a huge part of their lives, so we might as well start them off young. I hope to make a difference in the lives of the kids I teach. Whether it’s something I could teach them educationally, or good morals I can instill in them, or being a good role model I just hope I can better their lives in someway. Obviously I think education is important but I think teachers play a much bigger role than just teaching and they can change lives. I truly have enjoyed this class and now Im looking forward to teaching so much more. Thank you so much for all your help. I truly appreciate you and what you do. Danica Male =]