Post 5 A

First and foremost, as a teacher, I want to be able to create a learning environment that is safe and productive. In order for students to learning cognitively, they have to be able to ask questions and learn effective skills that will help them to critically think. The essential skills that I want my students to know and be able to relate to are communicating in a respectable professional manner, keeping grammar in mind. I want to prepare my students for their professional career as well as their high school career. My main focus is to not only to teach students mastery of English, but make it relate-able to both vocational and university paths. If students are learning life skills including literature skills, they are more apt to listen and pay attention if they know for a fact that they will use those skills again. I want them to learn that memorization is not application or comprehension. So many students in today's classes are solely relying on memorization to get them by. I know this for a fact because I was one of those students, but when I would try to recollect on things that I had memorized in school, I couldn't. I thought that memorization was learning. The only form of learning. I understand that students in math, science, or sometimes English need to memorize certain things. But when our students start relying on memorization instead of application or truly understanding material, they are at a disadvantage. I want to make students aware of this increasing issue and help instill skills of cognitive learning.