Reflection

I am really excited about this semester in the teaching program at MTSU.  My previous years have focused on getting the content knowledge that I need to teach students, but beginning this year, the focus has been how to teach what I know to students.  I have spent the last month working in a classroom at Marvin Wright Elementary, and it has been an amazing experience.  I am getting to work with students, which is what I began this degree to do!

Additionally, this semester I am taking a digital learning class.  This class is teaching me how to teach students in a 21st century classroom.  I grew up with house phones, Nintendo consoles, and cassette tapes.  There were no cell phones, household computers, iPads, or mp3 players.  Digital learning has helped me learn how to use some of these devices in order to teach my students who have grown up in a world where technology is commonplace. 

I have used Pinterest before my digital learning class, but everything else I have learned in this class has been new to me.  I have learned how to create a blog (much like the one I am writing now), and I recently finished my own website.  It was a little frustrating trying to figure out how to create a website, but once I was done, I felt like I had learned so much.  Now when I get a teaching position, I will be able to quickly create a class website.