Madonna Abdalla

LBS 400

Teaching Reflection
During my education journey, I found out that effective
teachers care about students, know the content and know how to
explain it. Effective teachers also expect and demand high levels
of performance of students, and are great performers and
storytellers that rivet their students' attention. A great teacher will
keep the students wanting to come to school just to see what
interesting things they will explore and discover each day. I now
know for a face that

education should ensure that children,

young people and adults are equipped to be unsettled, confronted

by difference, to be changed, and to effect change. Education is a
channel different cultures, different places, and different times. I
realized

that

purpose

of

teaching

should

be

to

expand

expectations, not to confine them. It is to support our students in

understanding the impact they can have on their world.
As a liberal studies major student, I have taken many classes
that prepared me to become a teacher. During LBS300 class, I
experienced working with third grade students and I realized that

the classes I took prepared me to teach the materials but it didnt

prepare me to be in charge of the classroom. Only the early
fieldwork experience that taught me what working with students
is really like. On the first day I felt deeply unprepared to deal with
students, and by the last day of the fieldwork I realized that I can
do this. I feel that I just need more experience working in
classrooms. As teachers, we must project an enthusiasm and
excitement for learning ourselves, acknowledge that we quite
often, in fact do not have all the answers, that we do not know it
all, and that we do learn quite a lot from students.
Lastly, I believe that teaching is about engaging the mind. It
is about introducing students to a conceptual framework with
which they can begin to, in a deep and profound way, make sense
of, understand, and actively produce and alter the dynamic social
world they shape and which shapes them. Successful teaching is
also about listening to students, and taking the time to work with
students one-on-one, whether that time is devoted to in-class
and/or out-of-class academic projects. I do hope that someday I
will truly have a positive impact on my students choices in life.