The kind of teacher I will be in the future is a person who is involved with children academically and a friendly person who can be counted on for support when needed. I will role model to the student punctuality, actively involved with children and youth in and out of school with learning and or sporting events. I will be understanding with the children and help teach children to start using an agenda for at home school work and passing on notices about our everyday activities. I will set limits at the beginning of the school year like for instance, why it is important to sit quietly when the teacher is speaking to the classroom, why the children do not all speak at once and everyone will have a turn to ask questions, the importance of taking off their hats and jackets in the classroom and I will not forget to mention how much fun it will be to work together through out the whole year! These little steps to remember in the classroom will be a routine for the children and they will show respect by following the rules.
I will be able to enter a school with respectful attitudes from the children, parents and co-workers because I will build lesson plans that will have children learning and having fun at school everyday. I will incorporate some of my aboriginal teachings, such as having a talking circle once a week where we will have discussions to see how the children are feeling about school and what they liked best about past school activities. I was involved in one school observation where teachers work together with children in a group is such a great way to be involved with students everyday. I would like to take a few minutes a day to go over vocal exercises because that would benefit children in facial muscles and speech sounds.
My classroom environment will include a word wall, punctuations and numbers and letters to help improvement with journal writing. When children work in groups I feel the children who work together on assignments may have a better experience at learning the lesson hearing the teacher and through group involvement. The children who work ahead more often will need to keep moving on in the school work which will leave me with two groups of assignments to work on for the children or that can be a time to play educational games.
The lessons I have learned through out the year are very important ideas shared with the teacher candidates and needs to be passed on into the school district. The lessons I found important to carry on are the First Nation Pedagogy that we researched for one of the N.I.T.E.P courses which were a variety of lessons that work on sound and spelling. On one of our field trips to meet other Native Indian Education Program students there was one game that stood out for me which was where we had to all stand in one circle and each person had to share their feelings about the past weekend with thumbs up, down or sideways. The way you show your feelings are thumbs up for good feelings, thumbs down for bad feelings and thumb in the middle for half good and half bad feelings. I feel that the game is very good to do with children at the beginning of the week and the last day of the week to let out some feelings about home or school out on the floor and maybe lighten the children to have a better working effort with school work. I also liked the Simon says game where the children all walk or jog around in the classroom to loosen up and let all the body parts move around after sitting in the desk all morning or afternoon.
