Reflection #1: Introduction

Good evening student teachers! I know these past couple of days have been filled with a bunch of information. My name is Ryan Parker and I will be teaching at SAISD but more specifically at CFC where I will teaching 9th grade Pre-AP Geometry. I don't know about anyone else, but I am nervous and very anxious to begin this journey as a teacher. It seems with all the information that we have received that this will be a daunting task, but we have to remember to relax and tell ourselves, "We got this." This is a powerful statement to remember because each day as a teacher is full of different surprises that we may not be ready for. Upon graduation I plan on moving back to the Fort Worth/Dallas area to further my teaching career. My primary focus for employment will be Mansfield ISD. Educators in this day and age wear many hats on any given day. In my opinion, the top three hats that a teacher wears are the ones as the role model, the assessor, and the facilitator. As the role model the teacher has the opportunity to share some of the uniqueness of the subject with the students. We can instill a curiosity and promote for a better understanding of the topic. The teacher's role as an assessor is an important one.  Students can walk away from bad teaching, but they are unable to do so if given a bad assessment. Within the role as the facilitator, we as teachers are seen as the manager of the students' learning. If we look at the basis of problem-based learning, we the teachers role is not to inform the students but to encourage them to learn for themselves using the problem as a focus for future learning. 

This is my best friend in the whole world!