25+Random+Thoughts+on+Education



1. Teachers should come to class prepared to teach for the time they are allotted. Don't show up just in time and start class late everyday.

2. When you want your class to hear something tell them when you have their full attention, not while you are excusing them and everyone is already up and moving around.

3. I had a teacher, who is somewhat the reason I want to be a teacher, that even my mother agreed was an alien! Her approach to dealing with me was to sit me next to her desk off in a corner and have me read by myself.

4. Experience is a key tool to becoming a good teacher.

5. Use the sources available to you, why start from scratch if someone else has found something that works.

6. It drives me insane when professors don't use good teaching strategies themselves!!

7. I love buying new school supplies for school, even in the middle of the semester!!! I always loved getting it all together as a kid.

8. To be successful you have to keep learning and changing/adapting to your classrooms

9. You are one of the most influential person in a childs life, MAKE IT COUNT!!!

10. All students come into a classroom with problems, not just the ones with IEPS.

11. Tests aren't everything!! more often then not they memorize for the test and forget most of it right after!

12. Kids say the craziest,funniest and most absurd things!

13. To be a good teacher you need to create a relationship with each of your students!!

14. If your going to be a teacher be organized and plan accordingly! Don't waste your students time

15. Having a homework hotline/website is an amazing tool for any classroom!!

16. Get parents involved with their students school work!

17. You have to love what you do or its going to be miserable getting up in the morning!! If you love it the kids will love it! If you don't everything is going to be more difficult

18. There is a big difference between the respect male teachers get in high school compared to female teachers.

19. Technology is appearing in classrooms more and more often and becoming a more important concept to comprehend for students and teachers.

20. Reading books that you enjoy and sharing that with students is a lot of fun!!

21. Looking back on the work I did when I was in grade school the things I wrote were clearly influenced greatly by my mom and dad.

22. I want to make everyday fun!! There are going to be lots of times where students will just have to sit and do work but i want to make at least one fun activity in everyday!

23. One of my teachers in High school started everyday with time for us to talk about good news and then would tell us a corny joke!! This was a great tool because it got us in a good mood to start the class.

24. As a child, and still to this day, I loved being read to! I want to be able to read lots of books to my students and make it enjoyable to them!! Especially some of the Canadian authors I grew up reading.

25. In a physical education room much like any other class you need to model what to do and participate in the class as you expect your students to participate