Blog post #9

Mr. McClung wrote a blog post, What I've Learned This Year , to document his first year teaching. The things he talks about are very important and make me anxiuos as well. Like trying to impress the admistrative staff and not letting your students down. We must realize that we are only human and so are our students. We just need to try to mae the best lesson plan to our best ability and ask our students to just try their best as well. We should all set our goals high but have them be resonable and possible as well.

Children want and need to be heard.  McClung writes that as teachers we should never stop listening to our students. The number one thing that people want is for someone to listen to them. Everyone is to busy talking that no one listens to anyone anymore. Our students may not be being listened to at because their parents may be to busy with work and what not. So I feel that we as teachers should listen to our students as much as possible to show them good listening skills and that people do care about what you have to say. Also a good listener is a good friend.

In his blog he also speaks about how we need to not be scaredmof technology. I was never scared of it but now I am becoming more familar with more social networking sites and other educational online tools.Our children and students are going to expect us to be technology literate so we may as well start now. Thankfully I enjoy technoogy and everything it has to offer.