Students of Today

The students of today’s generation are something else. I sit back and listen in the classrooms of my local high and wonder if I was like that when I was there age. You can learn alot about who your students are if you take the time to listen. I find that the experience that I am getting from being a substitute teacher three days a week in different classrooms is quite rewarding. From time to time, on a free period, I would go and visit a class where I was a sub and see how the students interact with their regular teacher. In some cases they are completely different and in some there are the same. I have been exposed to some teachers that get their point across in a weird way. I am starting to learn that it is not so much about the content of the course; however, it is keeping the students interested in and disciplined enough to want to pay attention.

I am now in college and attend full-time. I have been attending college for numerous amounts of years and find that college can teach you all there is to know about what to teach, but it can’t teach you how to command the students in the classroom. It doesn’t, and I don’t think it can, teach you how to deal with certain situations or scenarios. College doesn’t teach you what to do if a student is out of line and that student needs to be disciplined in some fashion, where the student doesn’t benefit. There are alot of things that school, college, and your peers can teach you, but there is no other lesson better that is available like first hand experience.