Parents

    This week on Mrs. Stevens blog, there is controversy of the teacher's side of view and the parent's side of view when it comes to how a student learns and grows.

    As a student intern, I see the different sides of the education process. I see that the parents will more likely listen to their kid over the teacher. I also see that the teacher sees a different side of the child's characteristics. There should be a compromise of the teacher and parent by listening to each other along with helping each side as best as possible.

    When thinking about the professions that are out there, I can think of four immediately. Doctors, Teachers, Architects, and Lawyers. Out of the four, the only one that makes the others exist is teaching. Without teaching, the other professions would be useless. In other words, I believe that being a teacher is the highest of all of the professionals. Of they are not perfect, no one is. everyone makes mistakes, so it is alright to question even the highest paying professionals.   However, the adults are not always to blame. The students are in charge of whether or not their schoolwork gets finished and turned in. In fact, students should take responsibility for their actions once school begins.



    Students can't really learn how to take responsibility for their actions, if their parents are always making excuses for their child. The saying of "Oh, they're just kids" is implying that it is alright to make excuses and not really pull the weight. When these kids grow up, they will not take responsibility and make excuses all of the time.

    By not taking responsibility for one's actions, the affect in the future will be relied on the parents and other responsible people. After a while, there will not be enough responsible people for each excuse maker.

   

Invite Creativity.

This week on Mrs. Stevens blog, creativity matters.n

To me, creativity is a great way to express the differences of learning, and visual features. Along with the expressions of the differences, there is the feeling of being different. Being different from the non-creative, boring life serves many purposes for the human race. Some examples of creativity are; taking songs with certain lyrics and change them up to mean something totally different, taking a normal picture and add/take away features or use different colors to create something totally different.



In education, the main focus is on getting students to pass their classes with an one answered key and only one true way to finish an assignment or project. With this process, students lose some to all of their creative strokes that make certain pieces of work stand out, by the end of their senior year of high school. In other words, creativity matters quite a bit. I watched a video that talked about how creativity influences the student  to achieve more and be more focused in school. The artists usually can not think about what the teacher is saying, unless they are doodling. Though it may sound odd, it helps in the long end with brain juices.



The only way we can fix the lack of creativity is to encourage daily creative activities/lessons that will involve the student and keep them focused..... for the most part. Another way to fix this problem is to encourage more creative classes to be mandatory as well as the four regulars. Or some of the regulars can just be cut out. For instance, Science. It isn't really needed unless one would be majoring in a science.

Appearance counts

This week on Mrs. Stevens blog, we talked about the first appearances when interviewing for jobs.

When it comes to professionalism, the right attire helps to get the job. The employer does not want to see someone coming in for a job interview that is dressed in painting shirts, really short skirts, or hair all messed up. The way someone comes in is the way the employers believe that the person lives.



Not only does the employer look for the way a person dresses, but also how the person acts around them. If  the employer feels as if the person that is getting interviewed is acting nervous or not paying attention, then they will look for someone else. The key is confidence. With confidence, there is a want to be an employee in the specific company. However, being overconfident can lead to an uneasiness to the employer. The importance to the professional attire is to show the future employer that there is a defined want to access the job and that it is important.

This is what not to wear to an interview.

Break! For Spring

As the end of a marvelous spring break comes to an end. I have to say, that I feel very accomplished. I made up my mind before this break even started that my room was going to become clean. Many may ask why my room wasn't already clean and why I was waiting until Spring Break to start. Here is why I waited.

My family built our house back in 03. The original design was calling for three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a game room on the second floor. However, since I was only 8 and my brothers are younger than I am, my parents decided to close the game room and make it a bedroom. I got the second biggest bedroom in the house with the most windows.

After almost 10 years, my room was looking quite small, with all of the furniture and junk that had invaded my room. Since I am moving out in a few months, I thought no better time than to clean my room. I am happy to say that I have successfully cleaned my room in six days.

I have done other things besides clean my room. One of the other things that I have done is go to the money making plant in Fort Worth. It is a free way to learn hands on how our US currency is made. Note, it does not include coins, only paper money. There are many things that are allowed to do while at the Bureau. Usually during spring break there are certain people that come to the Fort Worth and show what they do. One person showed of how to recover money, and another showed how to engrave on metal. It was a true experience.


 The best part of the experience was seeing the stacks and stacks of the money becoming money. The money isn't called money until it goes through the vault at the end of the line.

Tiger Day

As the end of my high school career is coming to an end, it is the right time to make sure that the college that I want to go to is still the one I want to go to. In order for that to happen, I went to the campus of East Texas Baptist University yesterday for their showcase day or better known as Tiger day.

For this trip, I went with a group of friends from my church. We took the church bus and drove out there at five in the morning. This trip happens to take three and half hours, with Tiger day starting at 9:00. So of course, I fell asleep.

Now I am just going to skip ahead to when we arrived at the campus. ETBU is a small campus in the middle of Marshall, Texas with tall pine trees everywhere. We take the time to drive the campus, which takes a total of five minutes. Like I said, it is small. I was probably the only student that has been to the campus before, so  I felt at home as we drove the campus, and looked at the different buildings.

Once we parked, we went to the chapel to start our day. The best part was how some of the members that I met from the previous times that I had been there, had remembered me. This kind of thing doesn't happen at the bigger colleges, so it was a good feeling. As the day got under way, I found some of my friends that are at ETBU already, and got to talk for a while. In the sanctuary, there were different presentation boards on the stage showing the many things and activities that one can be involved while at ETBU. Activities such as band, communication, SGA, theater, and many others. I don't remember what SGA and communication mean, but it sounds really interesting. As the day progresses, I went on a tour, went to an Education session, and went to lunch where the pizza was pretty good. After lunch, there was a chance to go to the bookstore or roam the campus for a few minutes. I went of by myself at one point and I just stood in one place. I could feel the peace as I looked at the scenery.

This campus may be famous for "Ring by Spring" but is also known for other great aspects. "Ring by Spring" means that girls go to find future preachers and will become engaged by the springtime. The other great aspects are the teaching program, nursing program, sports, and their fine arts are known for all of their hardwork. This just makes ETBU a really great school. I am very excited to see how God will use me at this great place.

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Storyboard That- introduction to farm animals
This is the lesson plan to my Storyboard
This Glogster is in relation to the Storyboard

My glog blog

Kindergarten farm animals

http://s93b9kj.edu.glogster.com/farm-animals/