Blog Assignment # 10

Do You Teach or Do You Educate?

In the video, “Do You Teach or Do You Educate?,” it gives the many different definitions of the words teach and educate. The main ones that stood out to me were the definition of educator as being a mentor or an advisor. I want to be there for my students as mush as I can and help them along their educational journey.

I first knew that I wanted to be an education major when I was in about eleventh grade. I was never really a big fan of school when I was a student, but I had this one great teacher or “educator”; she was amazing. I would go to school just so that I could go to her class. She was my eleventh grade French teacher and everyone loved her just as much as I did. She would have something fun for us to do every day, whether it was doing a presentation in front of the class or watching a video to help us better understand the language. Ever since taking that class I knew that I wanted to become an educator and try and be someone like her and have my students want to come to class everyday and learn something new.

Don’t Let Them Take Pencils Home

In the blog post “Don’t Let Them Take Pencils Home, Mr. Johnson tells a story about a teacher who lets his students take home pencils. One of the specialists at the school informed him that she had just read an article stating that students who take home pencils score lower on standardized testing and she wants him not to allow them to take the pencils home anymore. The teacher doesn’t like this and instead of just listening to her, he decides to find a solution to this problem. His solution was to give students ideas on how to use the pencils at home in a beneficial way.

I completely agree with this teacher. We shouldn’t just listen to these research studies and follow exactly what they tell us to do. We should come up with solutions for the problems!