SCED 4200: Blog #4

I would have to say that I do not qualify myself as a good reader at all! Ha ha. I can read at a normal pace like most people, but the reason I say that I am not a good reader is because it takes a really good book to get me to finish it. I have a hard time finishing books, or even starting books for that matter. It is really weird that I am not much of a reader, because both of my parents LOVE to read, they always some book that they are reading.

The types of reading that I do like to read are magazines, and books that are based on true stories. I had a hard time reading books that were assigned to me in high school because I had no desire on the topics of the books. If I am interested in the topic, then I will enjoy reading the book. When I am teacher, I think the best way to influence my students to reading is going to be by letting them pick the book they want to read as long as it is related to my content area. That is what I liked best growing up, is when my teachers let us students pick out our own book to read. It let me have a good attitude towards reading the book from the start if I was able to pick it out.

SCED 4200: Blog #3

I am not the world's best writer, that's for sure! My mom would always proof read my papers and say, "you write like a 6th grader." Ha ha. I would much rather express my ideas in drawings, even though I can't draw very good either, I feel I will be graded less harshly with drawing. When I was a child, I did not write very often, I think that is why I am not a very good writer today. The kind of writing that I do now, is mostly in texting, Facebook, blogs, and emails. I wish that I kept a journal, but I just never have had the discipline to do it often.

The writing assignments that I had in school that I enjoyed the most were when we had free write or did reports on historical figures. I liked those types of writing the best because that is what interested me. The types of writing that I do not like is when I have to write about a topic that I am not interested in. When I am a teacher, I will give my students a subject to write on, but I will let them use their own ideas and topics to write about so it is interesting to them and they will want to continue to write throughout my class.

SCED 4200 Blog #2

I have a lot of great experiences in my discipline area, physical education. When I was in elementary I had the opportunity to help my PE teacher with other classes during my recess time. That is what got me inspired to want to teach PE. 

I love sports. My parents always had me in some sort of sport while I was growing up; I think that is another reason why I was very interested in physical education. I think that I can use these experiences in my life to help me in my teaching career by showing my passion that I have for physical education. If the students see that in me, then they may be more excited about learning. I can use the student’s background experiences to help connect with them with the standards, by using and seeing what they are interested in and applying that into my curriculum so that they will be intrigued in class.