Thursday, March 26, 2015

Designing instructional activities: differentiated instruction

      I remember my math teacher when I was at elemantary school. He has so much experiences about students so that he can easily make descriptions about students in his classroom. He recognized who is good at math from the first day and gave us tasks accordingly. In his exam, he had already known which student could solve problem 1 , problem 2. I was good at math those times and in one his exam, I couldn't solve the first problem which was the easiest one. Also, I was not the only one who was good at math and couldn't solve the problem. When we spoke with him, he said I have already known you couldn't solve this problem. The question was solved by everyone who took low grades, but I had solved all questions exept this one. He had known where I was good at. Also, he had always given as worksheets to improve our strengths in specific areas.

      When I become teacher, I will encourage my students to take risks, but for the reasonable ones. Also, I will teach and make them experienced about how they can have a sense of "what is reasonable?" so that they can take risks for their benefits and I think they will see the benefits of this even if they couldn't handle it. It makes them more experienced for the upcoming risks. I believe they will be the winner at the end of process.

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Teaching as a Profession: Collaboration with Colleagues

       In my current college life, my relationship has always been good with my friends. I believe that they have lots of positive effects on me as I do on them. We always have conversations about our classes. These conversations could be on our homeworks, group works, projects, mid-terms, etc. . We help each other when we have a trouble about class issues. Thanks to that, we have a chance to understand our misconceptions.

       In the academic life, being successful requires studying hard. Also, collaboration needs working hard, so I think there is no weaknesses of collaboration if the concept was understood well. To improve collaboration skills, we should target our aim and know what we want. We should also consider goodness of each others. To gain experience, we should practice such collaborations because I think experience have a big importance when we talk about collaboration. Moreover, it is much easier when everybody knows their duties if there are distribution of tasks.

       When I become a teacher, I will transfer my knowledge about collaboration to my students when there is a task which requires collaboration by giving advices to them. I will begin to do that by teaching them steps which are where should they start, how can they think more efficiently and etc.

Monday, March 2, 2015

Why do I want to be a teacher?

         In my life, I have seen many kind of teachers. I want to be a mix by containing all effective and good characteristics of those teachers because I want my students to be best in the computer science. I believe that if I can be the effective teacher in my mind, I can accomplish all of my goals.

         Education is so important. It is also important taking it from right people. I want to do everything right for my students. I want to be a teacher to teach beneficial people for their society and themselves.