Logan's+Philosophy+of+Education

There is a saying that goes, "Those who can do, and those who can't teach." In American people think that being a teacher is second choice to some corporiate job where engineers build comercial products and business majors sell those products. Moreover, these same people believe that you can actually be over qualified to be a teacher. Seriously, haveing a better understanding of your subject area only makes you a better and more engageing teacher! This American opinion stems from people that put a low value on education. In other countries, like Japan for instance, education is respected and therefore teachers are also respected. It is my intent to teach in such a way as to: educate my students to the best of my ability and, in doing so, to change this steriotypical opinion. Aditionally, I intend to intigrate technology into my classroom in order to be a more effieient teacher. In our public school system we have only 180 days with each class, and we need to teach them as much as possible. Using technology allows us to convey more information in that limited ammount of time. Also, with the massive knowledge base know was the internet, the possilibities are really endless as compaired to just 15 or 20 years ago. Being a teacher and making a difference, acidemically and socially, are increadably important and what I will dedicate my life to.