EDEL 2200 "My Ideal Classroom"

My ideal grade that I want to teach would be first grade. I want to teach here in the United States. I possibly want to teach here in Utah. I want to teach a multicultural classroom. I think that if I have a culturally diverse classroom, then we could all talk about our heritage/culture. Then as a class we could do activities that represent all of our different cultures. By doing this my students will learn early on that we should celebrate and love our differences.

I want to have students who are excited to learn and who are easy to motivate. I want my future students to all participate and feel that all of their input is important. As a teacher I plan to make lesson plans come alive through lots of hands on activites and field trips. I want my students to love reading, because I love it. I plan to have many storytelling events, and even have the children make up their own stories and tell them to the class. I would love to make this a weekly thing in which we could all participate, kind of like a little play.

I want the parents of my students to be active in their child's education. I want parents to be able to voice concerns to me about what their children are learning and what hopes they have for their child's education. I want parents who will help their children learn to read and support them in their homework. I want parents who simply put are involved and truly care about their child's education.

I want the classroom itself to be very homey. I wouldn't mind a classroom that isn't terribly big. I want my classroom to feel like a home away from home for my students. I want to have a reading pool, or a reading loft or something of that nature. I want it to be decorated with my students' artwork. I want to decorate my classroom for the holidays. I also want my classroom to be very print rich. I want to utilize music, art, dance, and technology to make learning fun and exciting for my students. I want my students to be able to become familiar with computers. I myself need to become more familiar with them myself. I think we could do many things on the computer.