I thought these tools were quite easy to use, and I imagine I will use them again to cater to visual learners in my classroom. I particularly like the idea of a mind map because they really require you to dig deep for all you know about a subject, and I think this would be a good formative assessment to use in my classroom.
I made this flowchart at Gliffy.
I made a mind map with Mindmeister.
I know that's just the tiniest thing ever because it's very long. I thought a neat thing about this Web 2.0 "thing" is that I was able to export just the text which says:
I Want to be a Teacher Because
-I love children
--my own children inspire me to see all children as someone's precious baby
--I strongly feel I have a gift to connect to children on a different level than many adults
-I love learning
-Teachers constantly learn new things
--The best way to learn something in depth is to teach it
-I am creative and resourceful
--Creativity will help me create project ideas
--Creativity and resourcefulness will help me meet the needs of diverse learners
--Resourcefulness will help me make good use of the tools I have
-Field trips are just about the best thing in the world
-I am a happy person, and a sunny disposition can take me far in teaching
--Cheerfulness is contagious and my students will pick up on it
-I love structure and organization
--Lesson plans will be my strong suit
--My classroom will be neat and tidy and not the least bit chaotic
-I am flexible
-I am dedicated
-I am professional
-I can be a leader, but I can be a team player, too
-I love technology
-I am a compassionate person who wants to leave this world better than I found it
--My goal is to model tolerance...no, celebration of cultural difference
--Social change can start in the classroom
-I was meant to be a teacher: as sure as I know anything, this, I know
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1 comment:
I like your note about being creative and translating it into the classroom. One of the things that attracted me at first to elem ed was the holiday parties (I'm such a big kid, we really only had a kid so I could keep trick or treating...not joking, well only a little bit joking). Then I realized, I'm the teacher, I can be creative, and dang it we are SO having Valentine parties and the like. And I'm excited about getting to use my creativity with room decor, parties, and lessons. I love reading your blogs, the way you talk about being a teacher makes me want to teach where you go, just so I can feed off of your enthusiasm
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