Thursday, January 27, 2011
This We Believe Pg 1-26
This section of the book focused on two big things: 1) Goals of middle school education and 2) How to accomplish those goals. I actually agreed with all of the goals put forth in the book, especially the one, "Develop the interpersonal and social skills needed to learn, work, and play with others harmoniously and confidently." I think this is a very important skill for young people to have. I think this, because in this day and age, the world in a lot smaller than it used to be, what with the emerging technologies that make it easy for us to communicate with people all over the world. So it is important for young people to know how to interact with everyone, not just the people they will encounter every day at school. Also, I feel like the phrase "interpersonal and social skills" doesn't just mean the skills to be friendly with anyone they meet, but it also means that students will learn how to be tolerant and accepting of other people, cultures, religions, races, sexual orientations, etc., as they will encounter many different people in their lifetimes.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
MMM Chapter 17
I really enjoyed reading this chapter. I thought the excerpts from the graffiti wall were so fun to read. They made me laugh a lot. This chapter made me realize how much fun it can be to be 12 years-old, and how school can either make it more fun or make it depressing. I feel like school should be fun, and you should learn things while having fun. I don't think that at school, you should learn things and not have fun.
MMM Chapter 2
I liked this chapter as well. When I was in middle school, I didn't really have a lot of teachers who motivated me really well. If I had even one teacher who did things like in the book, I would have enjoyed school a lot more! I particularly enjoyed the section Express Enthusiasm for Your Subject. In my opinion, the best teachers love their subjects more than anything, and are very passionate. So in order to be the most effective teacher, I think passion and enthusiasm is what in necessary.
MMM Chapter 1
I really liked this chapter. I really liked how Wormeli asked the readers to reevaluate and look at themselves before they could be effective teachers. There's nothing worse than a teacher who is just burned out; because then the students suffer. I especially liked the part about Listening. I think this was a good part for anybody, not just teachers, to read, because I think listening is a skill necessary to any successful person, not just a successful teacher.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
TP 2000 Chapter 2, pgs. 102-105
Chapter 2, Pages 102-105
In this chapter, I read what changes have been made to the recommendations from Turning Points to Turning Points 2000. I was a little confused in the beginning, because I was unfamiliar with what the first book presented, but once the chapter started to focus on what was in this book, it became a little clearer.
I think that certification for middle school teachers is pretty necessary. I’ll put it like this: I wouldn’t want a doctor giving me a physical when that doctor wasn’t professionally trained and certified to actually be a doctor. So I think it’s the same for teachers: I don’t think I’d want someone teaching my children if they didn’t know what they were doing, and they weren’t trained and everything. So that’s why I think it would be a good idea to have teachers be certified to teach just middle school, instead of being certified to teach middle and high school, for example. Because there are people that want to teach middle school, and there are people that want to teach high school, so why force the people that want to teach middle school to be certified in teaching high school and vice versa?
In this chapter, I read what changes have been made to the recommendations from Turning Points to Turning Points 2000. I was a little confused in the beginning, because I was unfamiliar with what the first book presented, but once the chapter started to focus on what was in this book, it became a little clearer.
I think that certification for middle school teachers is pretty necessary. I’ll put it like this: I wouldn’t want a doctor giving me a physical when that doctor wasn’t professionally trained and certified to actually be a doctor. So I think it’s the same for teachers: I don’t think I’d want someone teaching my children if they didn’t know what they were doing, and they weren’t trained and everything. So that’s why I think it would be a good idea to have teachers be certified to teach just middle school, instead of being certified to teach middle and high school, for example. Because there are people that want to teach middle school, and there are people that want to teach high school, so why force the people that want to teach middle school to be certified in teaching high school and vice versa?
TP 2000 Chapter 1
Chapter 1:
In this chapter, I thought it was pretty interesting to read about how the original Turning Points book helped changed a lot of teachers and schools since it came out. I’d never heard of the original Turning Points until this class, and it was nice to read about a book I’d never heard of and how it created so much change. Also, I thought it was that, toward the end of the chapter, it gave kind of a summary of what Turning Points 2000 will be discussing and getting us to learn. It was nice to get a sense of what I’m going to be reading about in this book, and not have it all come at me at once as a surprise. I liked getting some background information, and then some idea of what’s new in this book. So overall, I think this was a pretty helpful chapter to me.
In this chapter, I thought it was pretty interesting to read about how the original Turning Points book helped changed a lot of teachers and schools since it came out. I’d never heard of the original Turning Points until this class, and it was nice to read about a book I’d never heard of and how it created so much change. Also, I thought it was that, toward the end of the chapter, it gave kind of a summary of what Turning Points 2000 will be discussing and getting us to learn. It was nice to get a sense of what I’m going to be reading about in this book, and not have it all come at me at once as a surprise. I liked getting some background information, and then some idea of what’s new in this book. So overall, I think this was a pretty helpful chapter to me.
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