Myself as a teacher (Pre-thinking)

Seeing the forest through the trees....

The gaps I had in my popplets about teacher needs were found in the sections I color coded for myself as a teacher. I even found more information to add to student needs in the same notes.

I also found previously unnoticed influences from my past - my perceptions of cultural expectations!

My goals for students

Larger Categories

1.  Tool box of thinking skills to navigate educational culture
2.  Essential understandings that tie to their out of school lives

Relationships between the categories

1. Exploration and Movement
2. Understanding
3. Sensitivity to internal and external dialogue
4. Resilience
5. Self-Efficacy

Relationships between Myself as a teacher, Influences from the past, Influences from this class

What I have learned about myself as a teacher

1.  I have been influenced by things I can see can't see. I need awareness of these things so I can adjust and moderate my own development
2.  I see myself in my students
3. My needs are similar to the needs of my students
4. My goals for my students are related to developing the self-awareness of their needs within the context of their world so they take ownership of their development into self-actualized individuals 
5. Teaching is part of my development