Blog 10: Summary

Throughout this entire course so far and all my blogposts I feel that I learned a lot about the field of education and about my own beliefs as a future teacher. BP2 showed me that I think beliefs are important and play a large role in who we are. It also revealed that I think that having a strong belief system and being aware of it can have many benefits but can also cause issues in the classroom. BP3 showed me that everyone judges people unconsciously and that we interpret different things about people differently. It also showed me that it can be good to set our beliefs aside sometimes and have an unbiased opinion of those we come in contact with. BP5 showed me the importance of education of LGBT in schools and that it is a large topic of discussion in the field of education right now. The Mayfield Heights Middle School trip sparked my interest more in teaching middle school. Going into the trip I was very opposed to teaching middle school but after the trip I saw it as a new potential. Blog Post It was where I saw my own philosophy of education the most. I realized that I am a believer in a mixture of both liberal and radical approach to education. BP8 stressed the importance of building bridges not only from class to class but in my opinion from what students are learning in class and connecting it to the real world and showing them how they are going to use certain things they are learning in school in the real world. Our visit to shaker heights high school I really enjoyed. Being able to sit in math classes and see what it could be like to be a high school math teacher was very exciting. Blog 9 was our project on the ideal school. Because I attended an all girls private high school that I very much enjoyed I saw many elements of my high school in the school I created with my group. My favorite part about this course was individual observations. At Hathaway Brown I was able to observe the majority of the classes offered and the different teachers in the math department at the school. I was able to compare how different teachers taught and how the students reacted to their different teaching styles. It made me very excited for the future and definitely confirmed my desire to teach high school math.