Day Four

When you are a teacher, it is important to be "child centered" because a teacher is solely working with children, wether they are older or younger. If a teacher is not child centered they would probably not want to be around children very much and if they were, they'd be miserable. Also, when you are a teacher it is so important to have the best in mind for your kids because after all that's the reason you're there, right? Teachers in our community are held at a higher standard because they are what the children have to look up to and as the kids are spending so much time with their teachers they'll probably take a lot from the teacher, and not just school knowledge but in their behavior and attitude. Where as if there was a teacher that didn't really care for the students and who had a bad attitude towards them and above all didn't care for them at all, the kids would probably get a negative experience from that. Therefore, yes it is very necessary and fair for all the teachers to be held at a higher standard. All the teachers in SBISD have new "Activ" boards. These boards are very high tech and a teacher would have to have a fairly good knowledge of technology. Also, all the kids these days are using their phones and they're all very technologically advanced and as a teacher, I would have to keep up with that to understand everything that is going on in a child's life. Teaching would definitely be an option for my career because I  absolutely love working at Westwood. I love the kids and I love to see their faces when they learn something new. Being an elementary teacher you would have to have set down the basics for what the student will learn later in their life and that's a huge thing. Its so amazing to me and I'm so excited to go back.(: