I'm ready to learn...are you?

                              Team 16- What's your learning style?  How are you ready to learn?

Cartoons to make you think...

"I hear and I forget.  I see and I remember.  I do and I understand." ~ Confucious

This quote is so powerful.  As educators, we really need to discover how each child in our class learns best each year.  Then we need to modify our teaching style accordingly.   Here are some cartoons that show how important learning styles are:

How do you learn best?

Smile Team 16

 

The sign on Thomas Edison's office wall

"There is a better way to do it; find it."

simple, short, and to the point...

Each year, as educators, our job is to "find it."  We need to find out how to meet our new students needs and interests.

I look forward to the challenging of "finding it" with Team 16 this September!

4th Grade here I come...

I am extremely excited and looking forward to teaching 4th grade this year.  I am always looking for ways to challenge myself and learn innovative ways to educate children.  Learning a new curriculum  inspires me to research the latest trends in order to teach most effectively for EVERY child.  I have a passion for the brain.  For the past several years, I have researched all aspects of the brain in order to truly understand how children learn.  The brain is fascinating and truly amazing.  In educating myself about the brain, my teaching style is continuously changing due to the diverse learning styles of the children in my classroom each year.  I focus on getting to know each child from the inside out.  Last year, in particular, I felt like I could "see" inside some of my students and see how they learned best and why they had certain behaviors.  I am transforming professionally, as well as personally daily.  (Yes, I read or talk about the brain everyday.)

4the grade, here I come!  I am looking forward to getting to know my new students from the inside out.  What is your learning style?  How do you learn best?  Think about it...

"I am a Child" Poem

I am a child.
I come to you, a teacher.
I bring a whisper.
Can you hear the poem in it?

I am a child.
I come to you, a teacher.
Will you tell me what you think,
Or show me how?
Will you teach me answers,
Or the symmetry of a question well composed?

I am a child.
I come to you, a teacher.
Will learning be only about doing things right,
Or about doing the right thing?
A thing of joy,
Or of duty?

I am a child.
I come to you, a teacher.
Which will matter most to you,
My soul,
Or my grade?

I am a child.

I come to you, a teacher.
Can you teach me to chart my journey,
Or must you use a standard measure
To place me always
In the shadow of others?

I am a child.

I come to you, a teacher.
Will I go away from you ascending my
strengths,
Or hobbled by my weaknesses?

I am a child.
I come to you, a teacher.
I bring you all I am,
All I can become.
Do you understand the trust.


My hope and dreams of a teacher...I hope I understand the trust...