Thursday, February 7, 2013

Is a teacher a designer?

Who are you designing for?
A teacher is a designer for themselves and for their students. For themselves because they design their day, their lesson, their classroom set up, their mood, their attitude for the day, etc. In the same idea, the teacher is a designer for the students because the teacher needs to target the students with lessons, ideas, thoughts, classwork etc. A teacher is also designing for the whole population. One class at a time changes the world. Lastly, for other teachers because we all need to help each other to make every day and every grade easier.
What are you designing?
A teacher not only designs the obvious factors in the classroom for example, lesson, tests, classroom layout etc. but, also designs for the future. A teacher has a teaching philosophy that they want to fulfill and every day they work towards that goal to make the students not only learn in an educational aspect but in life. 
Final product?
A better future for education, students and teachers.
*Collective comunity
*Fulfillment for students and teachers

Take away note: 
I took away from the class that idea that technology should not be an "add" on but rather an implementation. I can agree to disagree with this point, technology should be used in the class as long as it is not the focus and the students focus more on the lesson not the use of the technology. I also never called myself a "designer" per say even though now that I think more on it I guess that I am. Teachers design curriculum, lessons, classroom set up, students plans for the day, the educational system etc. The word teacher took up a whole entire dry erase board to explain, and I guess that's the beauty of the field we are in, teachers are a little bit of everything.

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