Blog Response 2

I think that novelty is very important, if not the most important thing to have in the classroom.  I have always prided myself on the fact that I am able to inspire and enlighten people in new and exciting ways.  I would use all kinds of visual cues and interactive activities to make kids excited to come to class.  I remember when one of my teachers would have us all write stories and then turn them in without our names on them and have everyone in t he class guess who wrote each one.  I always loved to write things that people wouldn't expect me to write and fool the whole class.  I think that it is things like this, or when we are asked to re-enact famous people when giving a presentation that made me excited to go to class, and made me love to do work and get involved.  I think that a student needs to be inspired to work hard and get good grades.  This is what I want to do for my students.  

Blog Response 1

I think that I would define intelligence by the amount of experiences you have.  I think that through education you are given experiences, mostly in the classroom but sometimes outside.  You also gain a great deal of life experience by going to school.  You get to meet new people, hear new opinions, gain new knowledge based on other people's views.  I think that there is no way to measure a person's intelligence because we are constantly living and experiencing new things.  It is because of this that I believe that we are always getting more and more intelligence.