Friday, January 29, 2016

Week 3- Assignment 2 Post


Becoming a Win-win Teacher: Survival Strategies for the Beginning Educator

Author: Dr. Jane Bluestein

     

     My research this week took a turn into a different direction.  My original thought was to research teaching strategies for different learning styles.  As I was looking through the different databases for a book that would interest me, I was not finding any luck.  I used multiple keyword searches and used several search engines ranging from the Leatherby Libraries to Google books and also some research at my public library.  The titles I was finding did not give adequate information that I would have wanted to receive.
     While conducting multiple searches with a variety of keywords I did end up seeing some titles that did interest me but took me away from my original research topic.  Instead of researching the learning styles of students I have decided to look more into the kind of educator I want to become.  I searched with the keywords “First year teachers” and came up with quite a few results.  While looking into the titles I was very interested in once in particular. “Becoming a Win-win Teacher: Survival Strategies for the Beginning Educator” stuck out to me a lot.  While reading portions of this book I started thinking about how it will it be in my first year.  What kind of teacher will I be? The author, Dr. Jane Bluestein, gave some great examples of experiences she had and also gave great analogies of the types of feelings you could have stepping into a teaching role.
     I am really hopeful that the remainder of my research will be very beneficial to my future goals.  I feel like I had a broad idea of what I was trying to research and it made it difficult for me to find a book that would really stand out and be helpful.  I also think the variety of keyword searches I used help me find what I was looking for and what was interesting to me.


     

No comments:

Post a Comment