1.What is your job title?
Elementary school teacher
2.What is your job description?
To deliver the curriculum for the grade level assigned, report on it at required intervals and asses work that is handed in.
3.What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job?
Lesson plan, gather materials, give instruction and asses and mark assignments
4.What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas:
a)training?
Ongoing professional development in various related areas
b)education?
Bachelor’s degree (my mom has a bachelor’s in science) and a teaching certification
c)experience?
My mother has had 5 years as an assistant in a classroom and 15 years as a teacher in grade 1-11
d)skills and attributes (personal qualities)?
Organization, Patience, good with kids, creativity and a desire to help others
5.What are some of the things you like about the job?
It’s an opportunity to be creative, opportunity to positively affect someone’s life, your not just sitting and out get to work with individuals who for the most part are excited to learn.
6.What are some of the things you dislike about this job?
Remains insufficient support for students with challenges and sometimes there is a lot of marking.
7.How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so?
Students will have increasingly more control over the path of there learning and technology will play a bigger role then ever.
Name: Sophia
Rap: Class: Ms.Lotter (24)
Student Reflections:
1.Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific):
- a) I love working with kids! I really like younger children around the age of grade 3-4 especially because for the most part they can read but they still are learning simpler things.
- b) I like to organize things; plan events and plan activates. Teaching takes a lot of planning and creativity to come up with interesting and engaging projects and activities that enhance the students learning that keeps the student interested.
- c) I would be able to help others (which is an aspect that I really want to be a big part of my career). I really want to be able to improve someone’s life and I want to be helping others on a daily basis and I think that a good or bad teacher can have a very large impact on a kid.
2.Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific):
- a) I would like a job that let’s me work more with my passion for music. I could be a music teacher, but I’d prefer to be in theatre and performing music.
- b) It would be hard to have patience sometimes. It could get repetitive especially if I chose to teach younger kids who need consistent repetition to understand something like reading, writing, etc. It might be hard to start from scratch every year.
- c) I would really like a job that let’s me travel. Even though I know it’s not super realistic I would love a job with flexible hours. Teaching is nice because it is very consistent but there is not a lot of wiggle room to take holidays outside of the prescribed days.
3.Is this job for you? Why or why not?
I believe it is one of my options but I’m still not one hundred percent sure about my career path yet. I would love to be a teacher. Maybe teach theatre but I am not sure if I would want to teach in a traditional school environment. I think this was a good opportunity for me to see what sort of stuff I’d be doing if I taught in a classroom. I would love working with kids everyday because I love kids and I could get super creative and use my planning skills. I would love decorating my classroom and getting the kids interested in learning. But I’m not sure if I would get bored of the repetition. Then again, I can imagine that there are some pretty interesting things that go down in a classroom so I would have to put a lot more research into it before making any decision.
4.Explain the value of the TOKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post secondary (after highschool) plans (education?, training?, travel?, work?).
I think it is good to keep kids interested and thinking ahead and it sort of starts the wheels turning. I like to plan so being able to experience even if just for a day what my life could be like is very valuable for me. I think it can also encourage people toward or away from a certain career path.