Drew's Foundational Brain

Benefits of teaching

Vastly-rewarding!

Teaching is a constantly developing profession that offers the incredible opportunity to positively guide a student in the learning journey. Teacher's salary's have increased since 2000 and the job market is promising.

Digested Drew Brain Thought - Profession is receiving a lot of attention but the value and investment in the industry could continue to increase

Challenges of teaching

Noisy Emotional!

Within the education system, teachers are at the bottom end of a long pole where decisions are made at the top and passed down. Teachers can be lost in the machinations of educational policy but as an educator you will have your classroom that generally offers flexibility in how you meet the learning standards.

The time you put in will not line up with your job description.

You can't save every student.

Learn your on/off switch and take care of yourself

Educational Philosophies

Richly Confusing Frustrating

Dynamic beliefs on methods of teaching and learning as well as the importance/place, transmission, and construction of knowledge.

- Philosophies or theories allow you to define what your senses absorb in the classroom. The ability to define your experience with a student provides shape to an idea and opportunity for growth.

- It was devastatingly confusing to learn all of the theories but take them as lens that you can apply for your own use and ultimately build your own.

Impacts on Education Policy

Lota-cooks

The macro level ideas on what ends up being taught in the classroom.

10 groups play a role in the shaping of educational policy but the state has the strongest voice.

Be creative with whatever the policy is and look at it as an opportunity not a sentence

History of Education

Interestingly Growing

- Tracking the growth of education is interesting. I fear it creates a box or framework that confines my head to rigid thoughts on the limits of education.

Ethical Issues in Education

Daily Responsibility 365

Teachers are ethically tested daily while working with students. and ever more as societal norms and accountability change and grow. The spotlight on teachers is bright and constant.

- Guide yourself with the phrase DO NO HARM

Curriculum

Lota-Cooks part II

The planned and unplanned teaching of students that satisfy the requirements of the learning standards of the blended wants of the Federal, State, and local powers.

The boiled down educational policy distributed at the classroom level. Teachers make the curriculm to meet expectations and

Assessment

Tinkering Tools for Impact

Greatest informal and formal tools for teachers to figure out the great question of if my students are learning

Classic assessments are written tests, class work, and homework. Research has shown how imperfect these are as students game the system and we discover more about learning and knowledge

Teachers should constantly be thinking about how to assess students outside of the traditional framework. Do not rely on your gut because being a good teacher is recognizing what your students need and there is no way to know if you don't know what they know.