What I Learned
I watched volume 4 first then Mr. McClung's 3rd year blog, and in these blogs Mr. McClung addressed being yourself and not a collegue pleaser, challenging yourself and welcoming change. In being himself Mr. McClung talked about how he allowed his collegue's preception of him to affect the way he taught his students. In challenging yourself McClung talked about becoming complacent in his teaching. While the routines made teaching smoother it stifled his excitement.
I agree with the majority of what McClung's blogs when he talked about the forementioned topics but I was alittle uneasy about not being affraid of being an outsider. I agree that our decisions when it comes to our style of teaching should be based on how well the students are learning class materials. Being that outsider can stifle your growth as a professional. You can not be wrapped up in pleasing everyone and trying to do so will have you running ragged. As long as your students are learning matieral being taught and your supervisors are in agreance with your work ethics and you are comfortable with yourself you will be an effective teacher.
The most important thing that I will walk away with is the "Dont touch the keyboard rule." In teaching students it is easy to take over a task and do it for them, it saves you time in explaining how to do it. But if you explain how to do the task in different ways and allow the student to stuggle through the task, the out come will be that they have learned how and or find a better way to completing the task.
Links and images are requirements for each blog post. This is unorganized and insufficient. There were a lot opportunities to expand on Mr. McClung's experiences and go into detail about the significance of his pieces of advice.
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ReplyDeleteHey Cyrus, I just finished reading your blog post 9 and I agree completely with your last statement. It is so easy for us to forget sometimes we can’t just do the work for our students even if it saves time. The keyboard rule is an awesome rule to utilize within our classrooms. I did find a few things you might want to work on. You didn’t have any links in your post nor did you have a picture (alt or title modifiers). I also noticed that your wording might need a little wok. In your very first sentence you said “I watched” this assignment was to read Mr. McClung’s blog post so there was no watching involved. Lastly you made several great points but your paragraphs didn’t flow well from one to the next, therefore your points were a little hard to follow. In my honest opinion it seems as if you were rushing to finish this up and your post paid the price. I would suggest taking your time next time and reading of your post several times before actually publishing it. It also may have helped if you would have split it into what you learned from version 4 then from year 3 instead of having everything crammed together. Overall I think you took away some valuable lessons from reading Mr. McClung’s blog.
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