According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook , teachers must do a number of tasks including planning classroom activities, grading papers, plan, evaluate and assign lessons, maintain classroom discipline, and supervise extra-curricular activities, among many more. With the experience I have already had dealing with children, and the experience I hope to gain throughout my remaining years at DSU, I feel that I will be a good teacher. For the past three summers, I have been the coordinator of a summer recreation program. From this experience, I have gained knowledge of what it is like to work with children on a daily basis. At this program, I had to perform many of the tasks outlined in the Occupational Outlook Handbook as well as the other sources from Lesson 1.
Teaching requires a great deal of time, both inside and outside of the classroom.
During these two months, teachers can take classes to re-certify themselves, or plan for the upcoming school year. Teachers often have to show up early, stay late, bring work home, and attend meetings and extra-curricular activities along with their regular duties. After reading all of the information in Lesson 1, I feel that I have grasped a better understanding of what teaching will be like when I enter the field. I enjoyed reading the articles from the first year teacher's and their views on how their first year has been.