This site is a class blog space for new Career and Technical Specializations and Heathcare Science teachers enrolled in the New Teacher Institute (NTI) at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Open Mic
I want to use this open mic time to express my views as a student which always spills over to my roles as a teacher. As a student, I have never taken such a straightforward class as NTI. The benefits and results of my studies with this group of professors are overwhelming. They have all been perfect role models and in every lesson have first shown us exactly what they wanted. Lesson Plans have never come as easy as they do now and that’s saying a lot with the HSTE curriculum. Additionally, their behavior towards the class, always available, willing to give a second chance, always pleasant, have been an excellent example for me and has taught me to assume a more productive role with my students. I have seen a major difference in my students this year and I truly believe that it is a result of what I have been taught at NTI. I keep saying I wish I had done this class the first year, but I sometimes wonder if I would have valued it as much as I do now.
I fully agree with you Delores. The NTI program ran extremely smoothly, everything was very applicable, and it was great to interact with so many diverse types of people/teachers. I have also wondered what it would have been like to have this class before I taught my first year. I am glad overall, though, that I had a year of experience under my belt and was able to see how much improvement could occur by implementing the things learned in NTI. I think that I would have been overwhelmed by all this information along with being in a high school classroom for the first time. I do commend those that have survived their first year of teaching along with making it through NTI.
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