Ella's Blog

  As a future teacher one of the most important things, I can learn is how to have those important uncomfortable conversations. Certain conversations for kids can be confusing and complicated if an adult is not there to guild them through it. For example, as a kid they are exposed to so much so quick with how much media influences our lives. A student could be watching the news one night and see something they have never seen or heard before. For a child that can be very overwhelming and scary if they aren't able to conversate what they saw on the tv. As teachers, that is where we come into the picture. We are able to talk through problems in the classroom and help answer our students' questions.  My golden line this week helps further my point on why talking about important issues is crucial for the classroom. I said, "how we talk about things matters" and the reason it matters is because our words have power. In a classroom we are the most influential person to thos...

  Why Teach?                                 I feel like every future teacher gets the question why do you even want to teach? Are you sure you can handle being around 20-30 kids for 7 hours of the day? It's difficult to be in charge of so many kids do you think you can handle it? Well, when I first got these questions thrown at me, I thought there is no way I could possibly do that to myself.    I have grown up watching my mom be a teacher and now my sister is one too, so after seeing what they have to do and hearing all these questions about how hard it is I told myself I would never go into this profession, and I would just do business or real estate instead... However, that obviously did not happen, or I wouldn't be in this class writing my blog post. My teacher journey is because of one kid I met my senior year of high school. I needed some extra cash and I h...