Teaching

In this entry I don't have any pictures, but I am writing about a teaching opportunity i had with a group of kids from a local elementary school. Looking back on it now, i think that there were a lot of things i learned there that were not easy to take out and extract from that experience at first as they are now.

In that class, we got to teach at an elementary school, and it was a lot of fun. It also was very informative and educational because I was able to see what it would be like to be a P.E. teacher for younger kids. I had an idea, but it was good to see from more of a firsthand perspective what it would be like to do that every day, and I have to say that I would love going to work if I got to spend my day with kids like that. Even though they’re learning things during P.E. class, they don’t necessarily realize it. They can be learning fitness ideas and skills, but think that they’re only playing a game. And almost every child has a desire to be active, if not only to have fun. So that experience definitely did not turn me off from teaching, in fact, it kind of instilled the desire deeper inside of me. It helped reinforce my desire to be a teacher.

Experiences like these teach me a lot I think, and I believe that there is little that can replace the knowledge gained from actually teaching kids and working with them. I think it is the experiences like these, actually working in the field, that really reinforce my desire to become a teacher.