Teaching them wrong: A pre-service teacher's fear
By Beautiful Cloud
EDI 600 Psychological Foundation of Education
School of Education
Long Island University, C. W. Post
April 15, 2009
My biggest classroom fear is providing students with the wrong information. To one day find out that what I taught was incorrect and then to have these students live believing what I taught them was the ‘golden rule,’ I would be devastated. I think this has a lot to do with why I originally didn’t want to become a teacher and went to school for business. In the business world, you make a mistake, like, losing a huge amount of money or client and the worst consequence would be getting fired. However, as a teacher, who is responsible for molding the future lives of his/her students, I believe the consequences are much greater. Every bit of information, big or small, that my students retain from my lessons become contributing factors in who they become as adults.
I can recall a discussion I was having with my brother. He said that light reflects off of light colors and is absorbed in higher amounts by dark colors. I, on the other hand, disputed this comment. I knew that light colors absorbed more light and dark colors reflected it. I mean, how could I be wrong when this information was taught to me by an extremely intelligent science teacher that I worshipped? This teacher, whom I had in elementary school was so smart and had an excellent method of reaching out to the students. He made science fun and easy to learn and therefore, whatever he told me, I believed and tried to retain to the best of my knowledge. After adamantly rebutting my brother’s comment that my teacher was a moron, I went and did my own research. I will only say that, disappointed was an easy way of describing the horror I discovered.
Scenarios like the one I’ve experienced me strike me with fear when I think of my classroom applications. However, I take it as another way to prepare myself to work harder to be better prepared so that I do not make the same mistakes made by my former teacher.
Today’s class gave me an additional sense of comfort. To know that I am not the only one with this worry and that everyone has a fear when approaching the classroom. In addition to finding people with similar fears, I became aware of worries I didn’t really think of before today. By discussing different fears present in everyone’s minds, I believe we were all able to find comfort through each other.
Long Island University, C. W. Post
April 15, 2009
My biggest classroom fear is providing students with the wrong information. To one day find out that what I taught was incorrect and then to have these students live believing what I taught them was the ‘golden rule,’ I would be devastated. I think this has a lot to do with why I originally didn’t want to become a teacher and went to school for business. In the business world, you make a mistake, like, losing a huge amount of money or client and the worst consequence would be getting fired. However, as a teacher, who is responsible for molding the future lives of his/her students, I believe the consequences are much greater. Every bit of information, big or small, that my students retain from my lessons become contributing factors in who they become as adults.
I can recall a discussion I was having with my brother. He said that light reflects off of light colors and is absorbed in higher amounts by dark colors. I, on the other hand, disputed this comment. I knew that light colors absorbed more light and dark colors reflected it. I mean, how could I be wrong when this information was taught to me by an extremely intelligent science teacher that I worshipped? This teacher, whom I had in elementary school was so smart and had an excellent method of reaching out to the students. He made science fun and easy to learn and therefore, whatever he told me, I believed and tried to retain to the best of my knowledge. After adamantly rebutting my brother’s comment that my teacher was a moron, I went and did my own research. I will only say that, disappointed was an easy way of describing the horror I discovered.
Scenarios like the one I’ve experienced me strike me with fear when I think of my classroom applications. However, I take it as another way to prepare myself to work harder to be better prepared so that I do not make the same mistakes made by my former teacher.
Today’s class gave me an additional sense of comfort. To know that I am not the only one with this worry and that everyone has a fear when approaching the classroom. In addition to finding people with similar fears, I became aware of worries I didn’t really think of before today. By discussing different fears present in everyone’s minds, I believe we were all able to find comfort through each other.
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