Lesson 9: Is Teaching for Me?

I have come to learn that becoming a teacher is pretty difficult.  There are 20-30 different students that all have different levels and abilities that you need to take into factor and some of the students you would like to go further and others you need to hold back on and help them catch up with the rest of the class. I feel like being a teacher is like spinning multiple plates on balancing sticks at once. I have wanted to be a teacher for years and have done it in my parents classrooms and this semester has just invigorated me to becoming a teacher as well and I am really excited to enter the teaching world. I would say Ive already done volunteer work in the classroom before this class so I wouldnt attribute my decision to this class, but just the service placement has helped in general and I encourage all students to try it before they decide to move forward. I guess my next steps are starting the major next semester and I will be volunteering in the classroom for three weeks I believe, so I will continue my hours in the classroom until I graduate I believe. 

Christ at the Helm

As Elder Dallin H. Oaks has taught us: “It is not enough for anyone just to go through the motions. The commandments, ordinances, and covenants of the gospel are not a list of deposits required to be made in some heavenly account. The gospel of Jesus Christ is a plan that shows us how to become what our Heavenly Father desires us to become.”

True obedience, therefore, is giving ourselves entirely to Him and allowing Him to chart our course both in calm waters and in troubled ones, understanding that He can make more of us than we could ever make of ourselves.


-Von G. Keetch
"Blessed and Happy Are Those Who Keep the Commandments of God"
Oct 2015

Blog Entry #8 Assignment

This blog or portfolio that we are creating with our thoughts and notes written on them is really helpful and effective to help me develop my teaching skills. I had forgotten some of the things or views that I had expressed and love that they are here at my disposal anytime I want. I just wish some of the video and audio assignments that we turned in were all handed in through our blogs that we I can review them years later to either motivate me to be better or laugh and think how foolish I was at the time. I have no idea how on target I am, but I think I am doing good with the teachings and hope that I will be proud of how good I was in this class to help me get a leg up in the teaching industry. Yeah I think having this blog has really helped me dig deeper and understand and apply my service hours and try to see if they were effective and what I want to incorporate and not incorporate into my future career. I think the biggest development I see from my first to last blog post is that there is more than one way to teach. As teachers we are handed a book that has the required teaching criteria's and that we need to present it to students to be able to pass off state testing that occurs at the end of the years. This class has taught me that class doesn't have to be boring and we can be adventurous and explore new and different styles of teaching to help the students learn better than the boring lectures that we've all experienced in our classes at one point in time or the other.

Charity the Pure Love of Christ

1 Nephi 19:9 And the world, because of their iniquity, shall judge him to be a thing of naught; wherefore they scourge him, and he suffereth it; and they smite him, and he suffereth it. Yea, they spit upon him, and he suffereth it, because of his loving kindness and his long-suffering towards the children of men.


Ether 12:33 And again, I remember that thou hast said that thou hast loved the world, even unto the laying down of thy life for the world, that thou mightest take it again to prepare a place for the children of men.

34 And now I know that this love which thou hast had for the children of men is charity; wherefore, except men shall have charity they cannot inherit that place which thou hast prepared in the mansions of thy Father.