Lesson 15

This week we worked on Power Point presentations. This tool is very useful and there are hundreds of different ways to utilize them in planning lessons and activities. I really liked looking through the 50 power point activities book and seeing all of the different fabulous ideas that I plan on using when I teach. I like how the book gives you ideas but you can use the ideas for whichever grade you are teaching and just modify it to fit your lesson plan. After watching the video it helped me to realize the important roles that we play in students lives. They look up to teachers so much, they go to them when they need help with family, friends, or school problems. Teachers should always be there to dry their eyes, give them a hug, pat them on the back, and give them the encouraging word that they need to hear. If we don't believe in our students then who will? The future generation is in our hands! If we raise them up believing that they can achieve great things then they will, if we believe they can influence other people they will, if we believe that they are capable of hard things they will be able to conquer the hard things that come there way. I was talking to my mom the other day about "self evaluations" and how sometimes even if you know you have fulfilled all the requirements you put a 4/5 or 8/10 on something because you don't want to look cocky. She told me that when she was evaluating herself on a job some years ago she gave herself 5/5 on all of the questions. When her boss told her that he had never seen anyone give themselves full points like this before she told him how her dad told her "if you don't think of yourself highly than who will." I think that this can be related to the movie clip because if we don't think highly of ourselves as teachers and our teaching abilities and capacity then our students won't think highly of us either and vice versa. If we don't think highly of our students then who will? But by building their self esteem and showing that we care about them, believe and trust them then we can help to build a fabulous generation for the future.