Meet+Your+Teacher

A page called "Meet Your Teacher" that introduces who you are as a teacher, a brief educational philosophy, a well-written paragraph or two reflecting your philosophy on integrating technology into your teaching and student learning, and a WHY YOU SHOULD HIRE ME component (you may choose to do this later as a digital story);

Meet Your Teacher: Mr. Brown

As a teacher the number one goal that I have is that my students leave my classroom enjoying math and not dreading coming to my class on a daily basis. I wanted to become a math teacher because I had a teacher named Ken Prevot who made a huge difference when it came to teaching the subject of mathematics. He made it so that each step of doing a problem was not overwhelming and was able to concentrate on doing each step correctly to come up with the correct answer. When you do it that way the right answer is not as important as knowing how to use to arrive at the answer with a repeatable system.

Now as a 21st Century Teacher technology will become a very important part of what will be done in my classroom, this is in order to show my students that math is applicable in their world, not just in the future in the job market. There is a math program called Mathematica out there that has become huge when it comes to math in the 21st Century. It is a program that the student can use to input a function and get the answer, which can become hindering but from the answer students can use it to find the correct process to find the answer that was given to the student using Mathematica. Another technological option is something called Webwork, this is a program that gives a problem online and the students answer it online. I see this as being the future, replacing textbook problems with work on the web which will obviously save the school money on having to update their math textbooks year in and year out. Also in my 21st Century classroom I will have my groups of students teach a chapter every so often and they can use anything they want to do it; whether that be a power point, a video presentation, animation... the possibilities are endless. This will give the class a different view on certain subjects rather than only my way of doing things.  I would be a good hire for your school because of the goals I have as a teacher: to make math enjoyable, to give them life skills, and also show them other ways to go about math work than just the same old pencil and paper routine. Also with this as my goal my class will not need textbooks because all of my homework problems will be online or done in class. As a math teacher in your school I will make it so that students want to take math with me as their teacher, which means that more students will graduate because they will fill their math requirement. A lot of students that drop out usually don't have their math credit because they either feels that they can't do it or it is something that they don't want to do. Making math exciting is the thing that I will bring to the table and why I should be hired into your school as a math teacher.