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.

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.