I came across this video on Youtube - Do You Teach or Do You Educate? I think a blog assignment in relation to this movie could be beneficial to all education majors.
The blog assignment would read something like this:
Watch the video, Do You Teach or Do You Educate. Think about why you became an education major. Write two paragraphs stating how you intend to educate rather than just teach.
If this would have been one of our assignments, my blog would have been:
How true is this video! We are called to be educators not just teachers! Our job is to lead the students and to engage them in such a way that we spark their creativity and we guide them to be the best that they can be. All students learn in different ways and if all we are doing is drilling them with facts and forcing our opinion upon them, will they be able to think for themselves when they "grow up"? Will they be able to take what they have learned in my classroom and apply it to real life? Will they know how to use the vast amount of information that is available to them through technology and the internet?
These are just a few of the challenges that we encounter as educators! I look forward to the challenge and hope to have a classroom that is enlightening, nurturing, engaging and successful in influencing the students to always want to learn more. I hope to inspire them to be forever students and to be willing to experiment with new things and to know that every experience is a learning experience. Some lessons will work, others will not but I hope to be an educator that is continually learning and inspiring my students to do the same!
I love the quote from Socrates, "Education is the kindling of a flame - not the filling of a vessel." What a statement and what a responsibility we have as educators! I look forward to the challenge and the responsibility!
Lisa,
ReplyDeleteI loved this video, and I definitely agree that we are called to be educators. Your post was very inspiring, and I think you have some great ideas of what an educator should be and do. I agree that it is extremely important to engage and encourage our students, and I think the use of technology can definitely accomplish this. I think all teachers could benefit from this assignment because so many times, we forget what it means to be educators.
This video is very good. It does a good job of explaining the difference between to teach and to educate. I agree it's true we are being trained to be educators and to continue to learn.
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