My Musing

For the first class of the year, I thought that I would summarize what I think that I can bring to teaching and what my strengths and weakness are.  The idea would be to look back on this at the end of the semester to see if my thoughts about me and teaching change in any way.

                I believe that I will be a positive influence to my classroom as well as to the school that I will work at. I do everything I can to surround myself with positive people and thoughts. Life is way to short to dwell in negative thoughts and situations. There is rarely anything that happens that is so important to worry yourself about. Stay positive and fix the situation if you can. If you can not fix the situation then there is absolutely no reason to be negative about it. I enjoy smiling every chance that I can. This act seems to help others smile and stay relaxed. I am hoping that this attitude will help my students enjoy my lessons and work hard in the class.

                Another strength I hope to bring to my classroom is my ability to help students to relate to what I am teaching them. Everyone needs different examples to grasp an idea and I feel that I can find what the students need and tie it all together. Most of the time you can not individualize you lessons but you can find the happy medium for everyone. After the larger lesson, individualized instruction can take place for anyone that might have missed some of the important points of the lesson.

                A weakness of mine might be a lack of patience on some days. As much as I want to remain positive, I still have days where smiling might be one of the hardest things to do. Everyone has these days but I would like to be able to let the issues go that are dragging me down and at the very least be neutral, if not positive. Negative behavior is infectious and no one has the right to bring another down.

                I will expand on these thoughts as I have more time to explore them and will do my best to never forget them.