BlogPost10: Summary

Summary

Over the course of the past 3 months or so, I have noticed many things about the field of education. To an educator, you must be able to adapt to your students, to new ideas, and being able to adapt as a person in whole. Ignorance and stubbornness in the field of education will lead to no good for educational environments and for students. Adapting in a learning environment as an educator includes that in the way they teach. This includes "Building Bridges" and "Stir and Serve" methods which can be enormously helpful in students' learning process and their abilities to take in information which is presented to them. Educator's must be able to adapt in innovative measures as well in school setting. A good example of this can be seen within one of my class observations. This past week, we visited a 'Professional Development' school, which can be seen as a more advanced version of a standard elementary school. A teacher at Gearity Elementary school in Cleveland Heights may not have studied ways of teaching with technology added when in school. However, when hired at Gearity, they now must be able to lesson plan and teach students while implementing IPads. Adapting in innovative ways is crucial to the success of student's learning. If an educator is not open to new ideas in teaching, whether suggested by peers or implemented by school core, then they cannot and will not be able to reach their full potential as educators.