My Senior Year

In high school, I had a lot of teachers that fully believed that classroom instruction was their way or the highway. It didn’t matter to them what type of learning style their students were; they were going to teach a certain way no matter what. I think it is going to be very challenging for me to create a lesson that works well with auditory learners because I am more of a visual or tactile learner. I think I am more likely to create a lesson that would work with the type of learner I am rather than for the type of learner my students might be; I fear that I will become the type of teacher I dreaded. I have similar fears in regards to multiple intelligences and the right versus left brain instruction; I never knew that teachers considered so much when they starting designing instruction (I wonder if my teachers did).

Yet another thing that I think will be challenging to me is English language learners; I have no clue how to really instruct ELL students. During my first practicum, I had no ELL students in my classroom and during my current practicum the ELL students are sent to the library every day to work on the Rosetta stone. I have had no actual experience teaching ELL students and all I have been left with is a line or two on a lesson plan asking me how I will adapt my lesson for ELL students. Actually, I did have one teacher that did a little workshop of sorts to help remind us to keep other students’ cultures in mind when teaching but I don’t know how much this really helped. I am one of those people that has to experience it in order to understand it (tactile learner in this sense) and I have yet to have that experience.