Talking About my Electronic Scrapbook

In my electronic scrapbook I have tried to link facets of teaching and learning that support this process. Most of these pin point the different areas I find important when become an educator for children. The philosophies I have gathered from MacNaughton & Williams, Teaching Making a Difference are informative and give helpful techniques on how to put these areas into practice.


The theme of my slides start with my exploration on critically viewing an instructor at Karate and noting my ideas. Firstly, I notice the ‘positioning of materials and equipment’, ‘Timing of engagement’ and ‘equality for different race and culture’. The instructor is prepared when placing the equipment into position, he considers different aspects such as safety, learning experience, equal opportunity, age and ability. The children connect with having fun in this training facility, linking place-thought as a major aspect of their learning.


After analysing the instructor at Karate, I began to explore the different things I should consider when I become a teacher. A high priority was ‘planning and scheduling’. I began to grow my ideas around structure, such as ‘children’s wellbeing’ and allowing in my plan to give the children downtime in my lesson. I feel that children will learn these organisation skills from their role models and I hope to be one of those teachers that when children connect with past-present they remember these skills for life. 


My third image of myself is how I put teaching into practice. I discovered that ‘listening’
and ‘guiding’ children into making meaning of the different learning topics is imperative. As MacNaughton & Williams clearly state, the way something is facilitated during a class will depend on the process of making children’s learning easier. I strive to have a classroom full of children engaged and generating thoughts and questions, so they connect with learning to be affected. This will allow them to grasp these concepts of making meaning. Listening to your students view on topics enables the teacher to see how different children learn.

Basically I have included different techniques, topics and ideas on the philosophies I believe matters when becoming a teacher.


References

Techniques for Teaching Young Children, MacNaughton, G, Williams, G, 2009, Third Edition Pearson