Blog Post 10

After reviewing my blogs one thing I noticed was I always talked about how to be a good teacher. Consistently I was listing off traits that were "good" and traits that were "bad." The beginning blogs were more structured and less open ended. We were talking about ourselves and responding to quotes in the reading. I think we did this so it got our mind in the blog mindset and talking about just education in general. We were trying to form our opinions and each blog slowly did that for us. Later in the semester the blogs got more open ended and I enjoyed that. When I was writing it didn't feel like I was doing homework, rather just talking and reflecting on class. After writing all of these blogs it made me realize how much I loved my high school and how most of my teachers displayed good teacher qualities. I would love to teach in my high school and be part of such an inviting and supportive community. This being said as a future teacher I plan to interpret many of my former teachers teaching styles and make them into my own. I think the most important quality a teacher can have is caring for the students and finding the balance between teacher ad friend. I know that this is a very difficult thing to master.  I think in my blogs I talked about experiences I had in high school that I didn't enjoy and related that to the reading. Like teachers being too focused on teaching and not forming relationships. In conclusion, my blogs have really opened my eyes to what kind of teacher I want to be and the readings we reflected on have helped shaped my beliefs.