Sunday, December 13, 2009

DiSPOSiTiONS

I feel like dispositions can not be taught because it's your own opinion and this is your time to write what you feel. Their should be no teaching involved. I feel like these dispositions were very useful for me to do, because I was able to express what i felt about certain criteria.

I would recommend for future use that you keep using these dispositions because they will be useful to future teachers.

RESiLiENCE

I think everybody that wants to be a teacher knows that it will be stressful at first. They should already know this because hey were students once before and saw the way theirs teachers stressed out. The teachers that do not know this will have a rude awakening their first couple of years as a teacher. You really can not prepare for these types of situations because they usually just happen and there's nothing you can do about it.

If people want to be teachers then their going to stick with that career. We can't really prevent teachers from changing their professions less than three years into their career because it depends on how strong the person is. Teachers need to be strong so they will survive, weak teachers are not useful in the workforce. Teachers that are weak will not last as teachers, children are to manipulative to their teachers these days.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

HUMiLiTY

Humility is a word that has a lot of different meanings to it. People that have a lot of pride, sometimes even too much pride in themselves think that they always have to be right and can never be wrong.

I'm the type of person that can be honest with others and myself, and that will admit if I'm wrong. I have a lot of pride that i hold and that I will never deny, but I still will admit if I'm wrong. I have been wrong plenty of times, so there none that really stick out to me.

Everyone should always admit when their wrong. People will have so much more respect for them and treat them better.

Friday, December 4, 2009

COLLABORATiVENESS

I have been playing softball since I was four years old. The teams that I have played on before do not even compare to Luther Softball. Last year I was a freshman, and I just loved how the team bonded so much, and how everyone was really nice and welcoming. I think what made our team successful was the connection we all had and how we acted like a family. To make a team successful you must act like a team and all get along during game time. There is no I in the word team, so all of the team members need to come together and act like a family and play their hearts out.

Monday, November 30, 2009

EFFiCACY

I have helped many people believe in their ability to succeed at something, but only one time stands out to me. My little brother didn't believe that he could hit the ball and he thought he would strike out, but I told him he could and he didn't believe me. So we went to the park, and i taught him a few lessons on hitting and I started pitching the ball and he kept missing. I told him that he needed to have the confidence that I had in him and so he finally had confidence in himself and he ended up being the biggest hitter on his team this past season. You just have to have confidence in what you do and never second guess yourself about it.

REFLECTiVENESS

Teachers and students find it hard to reflect because they don't want to be wrong, they want to be right. People think that reflection has a right or wrong answer, when really it doesn't. Also, sometime reflections aren't needed, and then some reflections take longer than others so most people don't like to do them.
Some people consider reflection to be the heart of the teaching process because people need to reflect on how teachers are doing. If they are teaching poorly do we really want our kids to be taught by these teachers? No, so we need to do reflections on these teachers so that it doesn't happen.
Sometimes reflectiveness can be a positive thing, but at the same time it can be a negative thing. We need reflection so that we take the positive reflections and keep doing them and learn from the negative reflections.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

CREATiViTY & iNVENTiVENESS

I think teachers need to tell their students that it's okay to have a creative mind and to have an imagination because in the future they could be famous. Their is and was a lot of famous people that have creative minds and that have an imagination. You don't necessarily have to be famous or become famous, but people that have imagination's their life is so much better, they can expand everything they do and make stuff up that they never thought they could do.

I wish i had an imagination because then i would be able to think outside the box. It would have expand my horizon and show me things that i never knew I could of done. I think it's really important to have creativity as a skill in the 21st Century because it helps you in the real world looking for jobs, or playing sports, etc. You have to be your own person and everybody has their own different creativeness.