Tuesday, October 16, 2007

research paper blog

The topic that I chose to do my research is elementary education. The reason why I am doing research on this topic is because it is what I want to do for a career. I really like to work with children and there is not a better job in the world to me than to teach young children the skills that the will need to become a great student and a asset to whatever they chose to do in life. I really don’t know that much about what it is going to take to become an elementary teacher but since that is the career of my choice I fell that it a very good idea to get as much information about this topic that I can so I have a complete background on it. The main question that I am going to try to get across in my paper is that steps it takes to become a elementary education. The main question that I want to get across is what is the process that I will have to go through to complete in order to become a successful teacher. Some sub questions that I am going to look into is what university in the surrounding area has the best elementary education program is available to me. Do I have to take more or less classes to become an elementary teacher or do i take the same classes that a person would if they are going to become a junior high or high school teacher. I am going to get as much information that I can about the topic by looking online and I want to talk to some of my current teachers about what they had to go threw to get to this point in their career and if they are currently working on anything else that would excel them to become a better teacher for example going back to college to get a master degree in the field of their choice

2 comments:

babygottats said...

I would first like to say good luck to you at your dream of becoming a elementary school teacher. It is very important to teach our younger generations that they can be what ever they like as long as they try. I think this is a very good topic and it is quite interesting all the steps and time you must take in order to achieve the privilage to teach young students. I would like to know, that is if this can even be found, what are the pro's and con's of teaching younger students? Maybe even how do you even teach younger students? I know that teaching younger students compared to older students is a completely different process and ability. The advice I could give you that will help you and i know helps me is, find one main question then pick three or four other main questions that match with your main question the best and use those as your guides. This will help you give direction to your paper, keep you from being confuzed, and help you be oraganized. Other wise I think you will do a great job on this paper and a great teacher soon. Good Luck!

Dave DeBaker said...

You sound like you have plenty of questions to answer and will have no trouble finding good research. Mary Belknap is in charge of our teacher education program and she would be a valuable resource for you.