Friday, March 22, 2013

Blog Post #9

Mr. McClung Posts

Mr. McClung has some pretty good advice. In his post "What I Learned This Year- Volume 4" , he states 2 things. You cannot base your teaching methods on the need to satisfy your colleagues, as a teacher you must base what you do in the classroom on your students. If your students are having fun, enjoy your class and learn as they go along then you as a teacher are doing everything you need to do.
As a teacher you must challenge yourself, if you get too comfortable teaching the same lessons over and over again you will begin to get lazy. Mr. McClung says that getting too comfortable in teaching the same subject can have a serious effect on your actions as a teacher. He says to always challenge yourself as a teacher. Teach a new subject when given the chance or change the grade in which you are teaching.

In Mr. McClung's second post I read entitled "Lessons Learned", he writes about a snow day the school has. Other schools around his had closed, making his class very meek. He says he rambled with his students about Facebook and pet peeves all day in class, which made his students more comfortable around him. It's always good to get along with your students at times.

Mr. McClung


His advice was very good! It was also really nice to see he had been blogging throughout his entire career. This is a good idea, to me, because he can look back on his career. He can reflect on things he has already done, what he has learned. Almost like it's his own personal diary.. except the entire world can read it.

2 comments:

  1. Samantha,

    I enjoyed your blog post. We share many of the same ideas concerning this blog post. Mr. McClung made a great point when he said that you can not base your teaching style on another instructor. You have to find out what works for you and your students and make it work. Good luck with the rest of your semester.

    John Carpenter

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  2. You were to read two of his annual summaries, not one plus a post from his class blog.

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