Blog Post 10

An Open Letter to Educators
By: Morgan Bayda

I can so relate to this blog post. It describes the educational setting in any school you walk into. This is sad. We go to school and in most of our courses we sit and listen to someone talk endlessly about things we could care less about. Then we go home and memorize it just so we can make a passing grade. As soon as
we walk out of the class on test day, we never think about what we learned again.
The video by Dan Brown was so true. Schools are way behind in times. Education has not changed with the world around it. If it doesn't, it will go extinct. People are already attending homeschool and attending college from home on the internet. So, why should we keep putting money into these huge buildings at Universities that will be useless. It makes more sense to educate yourself in your own way. Then, you have actually learned what you "have" to research on your own.

Blog Post Number 9

What I've Learned This Year
By: Mr. McClung

This was an amazing post. It gave much needed advice for teachers. New and veteran teachers could use the advice he gives. He touched on communication in the work place, adapting lesson plans, and being flexible.
These things are very important to teaching. He also talked about not being afraid of technology and that lifelong learning was very important for teachers.
As teachers, we will need to apply the advice he gives. I loved what he said about lesson plans and how what you plan and the lesson that you will actually teach are always different. That makes complete sense to me because part of that would depend on the atmosphere in the classroom that day. The advice about communication was good. It is hard to communicate with people you hardly know, but this is the only way you will make it as a teacher. Communication is very important in any job setting.