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I attend the University of South Alabama, majoring in Secondary Education Sciences. This is my blog for EDM 310 with Dr. Strange. I want to teach 11th grade Sciences. Any subject is good, I love them all. I want to be a role model for my students. Someone they can look up to and look to for advice.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Blog Post #10

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After watching the video Do You Teach or Do You Educate?, I definitely wish to be an educator. I really liked this video and how it how it showed the difference between a teacher and educator. The video describes a teacher as someone who becomes a teacher to only teach. They show you information to you, and expect you to spit it right back on a test. Teachers like to show and explaining how things are done. Punishment is an option when something isn't done the way they want it done. The video describes an educator as someone who inspires you; a person who wants to educate you while being your mentor and a person you trust. That is the person I want to be during my career.

I decided I wanted to become an educator last year. Before then I was working on my degree in Biology. I have been working with youth through 4-H for four years and I really enjoy it. I was a regional and state reprehensive. Having the kids look up to me for advice was really humbling. I like my experience with 4-H and wish to continue it though education. I want to be the person that kids can learn from, a role model, and as well as come to for anything.

Karen J. Lloyd's Storyboard BlogIn the blog, Don’t Let Them Take The Pencils Home, by John Spencer, he writes about a conversation between him and the School Curriculum Instructional Interventionist Academic Specialist named Gertrude. Gertrude tells him not to let his students take home pencils and paper, because that it could result in lower standardized test scores. She also talks about starting a parent pencil program. Gertrude says how parents don't even use pencils at their job so they don’t even know how to use them. I had to read a few comments to fully understand what the blog was about and make sense of it. The pencils actually represent computers. I definitely believe that parents should know how to work the technology their children are using in their classrooms. This way, when the students come home the parents can help them. If parents don't know how to use a computer, then could attend a program, like the one Mr. Spencer talked about, so they can help their children.
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  1. whitneyNovember 6, 2011 at 5:42 PM

    After watching “Do You Teach or Do You Educate?”, I also want to be an educator. I believe that everyone who is in the education department should want to be an educator. We should want our students to gain as much information as they can from our classroom. I know that I want my students to be actively learning and not just memorizing facts.
    John Spencer’s post made a good point. I don’t see how a teacher would read an article and immediately just think that if kids don’t use pencils at home they will have better scores. Like Mr. Spencer, I would want to know why this would be true and what we could do to fix it. Students using pencils at home isn’t the problem, it is what the students are doing with the pencil that creates a problem. I enjoyed your post and the thoughts you had.

    Thank you,

    Whitney

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