Last Thursday I gave a power point presentation to my education class about why I wanted to become a teacher. To recap the reason I want to become a teacher is to pass on all this knowledge I have been collecting over the years so that I can help the younger generation hopefully learn from my mistakes and hardships. All of this amounts to my Grit, or what it takes to pick yourself back up after things don't go the way you planned. This idea about Grit, I believe is one of the best things I can bestow upon my future students so that they know that no matter what as long as they can get back up, then they can find a another way or path to achieve.
Since I am coming from a construction background I thought it would be a clever idea to use a construction theme. So, in my presentation I used terms like detour, building and merging. The original plan I started out with in life lead to many detours and finally is merging together for me to become a middle childhood educator. The cool thing about it is that I mentioned workshops in my presentation and this week coming up I have a woman's workshop to teach them to build crafts and also a kids workshop, where I can teach kids how to use simple tools to build pre-made kits.
I used Microsoft Power Point to make the visual aid to help me present. I picked power point mostly because it is what I had access to at the time and also I am familiar with it. I have tired prezzi before, but for some reason find power point more comfortable. Some of the the prezzis in class were very nice, so I might try using that next time.
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