This was my favorite assigned reading thus far. I think Mr. McClung had the perfect tone through out his post and you could tell he was a kind and patient teacher. His reflection on himself was honest and inspiring to many people. He recognized the importance of listening to your students, it is for them that we are in this profession. It may be stressful planning and teaching a lesson when worrying about if you are delivering the material the right way or what co-workers are looking on but we must keep our students as number one priority. Like Mr. McClung said, listen to them, watch their faces and really communicate with them. In his post he had stated, "In order to be effective you have to be able to let your audience drive your instruction." Who is our audience? Our students are our audience. Mr. McClung also stated to be flexible, be reasonable and never stop learning. While these are all things we may be aware of sometimes it takes hearing or reading it from another source to realize the true meaning in these words.
Mr. McClung is going to Skype EDM310 soon and i will record it. Any questions for him?
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ReplyDeleteI also liked reading Mr. McClung post. I think he was very realistic and made us realize that everything is not going to go as planned. It's good to have a lesson plan to guide us, but we need to understand as future teachers, that things are going to go wrong and we need to be able to work with it.