Brittany Tripp's blog
Terrified
I know it's the middle of the summer and I have no reason to be thinking about next semester just yet, but lately it seems to be all thats on my mind. I'm going to be a junior starting next semester and my fate is sealed as becoming a teacher, which I am actually pretty happy about. The problem is that I am starting to get scared. I know that I want to be a teacher but every time I think about the road that lies ahead of me all I keep thinking that I'm not up for the task. I fear I may not know all the answers to the questions my students ask me. I fear that they will either walk all over me or that I will be too strict and they'll hate me and not participate. I'm not giving up on my dreams.
read more »Becoming the teacher I always was
This semester is the first semester of college that I have had teacher education courses. At first they seemed cumbersome, with assignments due almost everyday. But now I see how much of an impact these classes have had on me. Before I got into the education major I thought that teaching was a cake job. You stand in front of kids all day, grade papers, go home, and do it all over again. Now I see how difficult and complex this field of vocation is. You have to put your whole being into teaching by connecting with the material, the students, and yourself. This is unique to the education field and it takes a special person to be able to do these things. The more I learn about teaching, the more I realize that this is what I am suppose to do with my life.
read more »What scares me
My name is Brittany and I am a sophmore science education major. One of my Educ. 3200 group member's blog about their fears as a teacher has inspired me to talk about my own fears. The biggest fear I have about teaching is that my students will not be interested in what I have to say. I am going to be a high school science teacher and I realize that most students only take science courses because they have to. Still, I feel like if I should be able to get my students interested in science if I am a good teacher. The reason I am becoming a teacher is to be an influencial role model and to get children interested in their education, but if I can't even get them to be interested in what I am saying how can I do that?
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