Week+3+-+So+you+want+to+be+a+teacher

__Week 3 - So you want to be a teacher?__
by Scarlet Daly

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Well after that inspirational lecture by Howard Nicholas I definitly felt good about potentially becoming a teacher. I felt his lecture had many strong and quite emotive points. I liked his use of music examples to depict different emotions towards teaching from both the student and teacher’s perspectives. Looking back on old examples of how teaching was viewed was interesting and hopefully is not still in the Education system today where physical punishment, or chirning out meat (or like-mided people) is not the main aim of the classroom!=====

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I felt Howard’s inclusion of the story of his friend struggling with bipolar disorder was honest, emotional, and aiming to make us as future teachers, think about morals and the morals we want to instill into our children. Quite clearly that policeman had no idea how to handle a person with a mental disorder, and sadly I thought about the either in-correct or poor teachings that policeman/women may receive. In their training.=====

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One of the readings however brought a lovely light to my page when I read about the idea of having essential attitudes including realness or genuiness, prizing, and empathy. There were positive reinforcement quotes from students of teachers who portrayed having these attitudes, and I imagined myself being able to hold these great qualities too in the classroom. This was in the article by Rogers & HO. J. Freiberg. The main idea of the article was that “if there is one truth about us, it is that we live in an environment that is continously changing.” I agree, that we should be adapting our teaching methods with the continously changing environment that we live in.=====

(By Scarelt Daly)