Post your first internship day's journal here! Just tell what happened in class and what you learned and observed. Classroom management techniques? Lesson ideas? Teachable moments? Moral/Psychosocial/Cognitive development examples?

Education Questions to Ponder

Directions: Click on the "Comments" pencil at the bottom of this post to answer.

Do you consider yourself a risk taker? Would this be a good thing for a teacher?
Brainstorm some blogging activities that you believe would work in your classrooms.
What are some effective ways to build rapport with students?
How do you feel about noise in the classroom? How do you handle noise in the classroom?
How do you give your students recognition? Do you think a student can have too much recognition?
If you could create the ideal school, what would it be like?
How do you encourage students to learn? What works for you?
Are you an objective person? Give an example.
Are you patient? Give an example.
What is the most important thing you need to be thinking about to be an excellent teacher?
Describe a "best practice" that you have observed in your classroom.
Now if you could ask questions of your peers, what would they be? It would be interesting to develop good questions. Isn't it amazing how much we can learn from each other?
Your experiences throughout the course will make for some great reading. Keep on posting on your blogs!

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