I feel torn about this workshop. To be quite honest, I wasn't excited about coming to school on a Saturday (and it didn't help that I was late because I thought it started at 9:30). I'm torn because I enjoyed the content and the way the speaker approached addressing us but I didn't enjoy a lot of the interactive portions. As I've mentioned before, if groups are nessicary I would rather be in charge of who is in my group. I understand that this is hard in a group like the one today, who didn't all know each other. Near the beginning, when he gave us individual time to figure out an ostinato and then had volunteers show the group was more comfortable than being forced to perform it. Most of his points were already very in line with my beliefs of what a teacher should be and I feel as though he made quite the effort to connect with every person there.
I also really enjoyed his passion. I was talking about this with someone the other day, that when people are passionate about what they are doing, it doesn't matter if you like that same thing, you're intrigued. I see it all the time in music or when I'm explaining the plot of a tv show to my brother. It was the same today. His passion for student centered teaching is what made certain parts enjoyable. He is very well thought out and it looked liked his direction for our time together flowed vey nicely. The thing that really put the day into perspective for me was when he said "student centered teaching doesn't mean less structure, it means more guidance". This cleared up a lot of questions I had about student center teaching. How do you stay with the curriculum if the students are leading? How do you keep students on task? Where is the line between student centered and student led? I grasp the concept of student centered teaching more now, although I feel like I won't truly know what it looks like or feels like until I have experiences in the area. I admired his energy through the entire workshop. It felt as though there was no point in which he got discouraged or tired, or at least let it show through. I don't know if this is his personality or if it's something he turns on as teacher. In the past few weeks I've realized that I notice teacher's outward expression when they teach. I think this is because through out highschool I had a few teachers that would one day be completely happy and an enthousiastic teacher and than the next day either get mad at every turn or not even speak to students. I am a strong believe that teachers shouldn't let their emotions guide their interactions with their students. If they worked in an office they wouldn't get mad at their coworkers or clients. That was a long winded answer to say that I felt engaged everytime he was speaking because his energy was high and his intination was exciting, which is another indicator that he phacilitaed the public speaking aspect very well.
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