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media type="custom" key="11734582" Mr. Morrison I am an ISU student majoring in Elementary Education. I am originally from New Berlin, IL a town outside of Springfield, IL. I am doing my student teaching at Dubois Elementary in Springfield, IL. I am currently a 5th year student at ISU. I love to read books, watch sports, and play video games when I'm not in school. The Green Bay Packers are my favorite team to root for. My favorite subjects in school were Social Studies and Math.

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Initial Reflective Essay
Ethical and intellectual demands in the classroom have become very important for future teachers to be aware of and to learn the best methods of handing these demands. To become a successful and an effective teacher, future teachers will have to learn as much as they can about the different virtues. After the teachers learn as much as they can about these virtues, they will be able to implement them with their students. The moral virtue that I feel that is important is sensitivity toward the varieties of individual and cultural diversity. The intellectual values that I feel important are wide general knowledge and a deep knowledge of the content to be taught. The other virtue that I feel that is important is deep knowledge of the content to be taught and knowledge and appreciation of the diversity among learners. The ethical demand that I found to be most important was the one stating, “sensitivity toward the varieties of individual and cultural diversity.” I remember when I was younger that my teachers taught us to be nice and sensitive towards others. The teachers emphasized this so that the students would not make another student feel left out if they were more diverse. I have found out that everyone is not the same and should treat everyone equally no matter the differences that a child might have. I hope that I will be able to use these past experiences to help make me effective. I would make sure that I be sensitive towards any students different cultural and individual differences. Another virtue that I found to be important was “wide general knowledge and a deep knowledge of the content to be taught.” I have found that it is easier to teach a subject when you know more about the content on which you are teaching. I believe the teachers throughout my life that I learned the most were from the teachers that knew more their subject content inside and out. I hope that I will be able to learn as much information as possible in the subject area that I am teaching. This will help me because students will always have questions and it will be easier to answer those questions if I have the knowledge of the content I’m teaching. The last virtue that I found to be important was deep knowledge of the content to be taught and knowledge and appreciation of the diversity among learners. Based on my life experiences, I have found that every student learns differently and at a different rate than everyone else. I remember during elementary school that some students did not always learn the information and were lost on future lessons. The teachers did not go over the information well enough for these students to be able to retain it. I hope that I will use this experience to help make me effective by teaching the information in different ways and going over the information multiple times to make sure the students learn it. I find that all of the virtues are very important to master to become a better teacher, but I picked these three because I thought they were the most important. I will use my prior experiences from observations and as a student to help guide me to become an effective teacher. I hope to learn from the mistakes that any of my teachers might have made and to not make them when I am a teacher. I realize all of my students will be different and will have to teach them the content in different ways and to be sensitive to each one.

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