Hello to any and all future students. I am Bryana, but I just go by Bry. (Or Ms. Bry/B to you.) I am currently 25 years old and in my junior year at CSUN. I enjoy reading and anything to do with nature like hiking, camping, beach days, etc.
I have been lucky enough to be part of a time where technology is so useful and easily accessible. I do believe the generation of kids I would be potentially teaching could gain a lot more experience and feel more comfortable with using technology in a school setting. However, I would love the opportunity and freedom to incorporate a nature based learning environment for my students. Whether I start out small by teaching lessons on picnic blankets under shady trees, or involve more outdoor activities for my students, I believe this approach would benefit future students.
A few sample experiments I would love to try would be arranging a time and space outside for students to read or work on homework outside. Maybe starting a small garden and planting various herbs, fruits, and vegetables of the seasons and teaching students how to incorporate such crops into their daily diets. We can actively recycle, compost and spread the word of its importance. I would love to hatch butterflies with my students every year.
Overall, incorporating small actions to help the environment, and making time for breaks outside of a stuffy classroom and off our phones/laptops are great examples I actively want to embrace in my teaching career.
I have been lucky enough to be part of a time where technology is so useful and easily accessible. I do believe the generation of kids I would be potentially teaching could gain a lot more experience and feel more comfortable with using technology in a school setting. However, I would love the opportunity and freedom to incorporate a nature based learning environment for my students. Whether I start out small by teaching lessons on picnic blankets under shady trees, or involve more outdoor activities for my students, I believe this approach would benefit future students.
A few sample experiments I would love to try would be arranging a time and space outside for students to read or work on homework outside. Maybe starting a small garden and planting various herbs, fruits, and vegetables of the seasons and teaching students how to incorporate such crops into their daily diets. We can actively recycle, compost and spread the word of its importance. I would love to hatch butterflies with my students every year.
Overall, incorporating small actions to help the environment, and making time for breaks outside of a stuffy classroom and off our phones/laptops are great examples I actively want to embrace in my teaching career.
Hey Bry!
ReplyDeleteI think you make several interesting points throughout your post. Incorporating nature into learning is a really cool way of heightening the learning experience. It is so important for our students mental health that they learn in a comfortable environment. Growing up there was nothing better than having a teacher take us out during a beautiful sunny day to do our lessons. I think the fresh air and the sun have such a positive effect on people, especially kids. While it sounds like you may potentially be dealing with younger students than I will be, I think that I will keep this idea in my back pocket to use in the future. I think that this could be an effective way to help teach our students to take responsibility for planet Earth. It will be important to teach them how to be good stewards of the world as well as good students. Anyways, I think this was a really thought provoking post! Great job!
Hey Bry,
ReplyDeleteThe points made are very unique and I really enjoy your outlook on the environment. I think having the children be outside and in nature will bring them closer to each other. Growing their appreciation for the outside could hopefully resort to them not using technology as much. I think in the classroom for the generations of kids we teach technology might become a problem. Even in the video we watched we see that children are having more mental health issues as a result. So your idea of bringing the focus back to nature and loving the outdoors will hopefully reel them back into the real world. People get lost in technology and it can become very saddening to witness because that's not how it used to be. I also think that growing a garden could be very useful for your students to learn so they can carry that with them as they grow up and even do things on their own such as having their own classroom or their own home.