Multiple Approaches

“Make him go left! Make him go left!” These four words haunted me while I was growing up. One of my passions in life has athletics and athletics was how I spent most of my time. One of skills I tried hard to develop what to become equally as good dribbling with my left hand as my right hand. You see, only being a proficient right handed dribbler, I was a one dimensional player. So, when I would bring the ball up the court, the opposing coach would yell, “Make him go left!” The desire to become multi-dimensional pushed me to practice and practice something that did not come natural to me. Looking at learning goals that I have laid out for myself in Education is much of the same as what I strove for on the basketball court. I want to be a multi-dimensional educator. My undergraduate degree was in education and I spent my first two years out of as a classroom teacher. Those years, studying education and being an educator allowed me to be acutely aware of my need to have multiple approaches to teaching. Now as a leader in the church, I want to continue to develop my approaches. Through this class I hope to further develop two of my learning goals which are to 1) broaden my repertoire of teaching methods 2) is able to use multiple approaches to learning. While these two goals may seem the same, they are quite different. First, to broaden my teaching toolbox is to use different methods to teaching. Teach to each type of learning. Second, to use multiple approaches is to be able to use things like media to inform my learners. Hopefully this class will be able to help me develop both of these goals and keep moving me down the path as an educator.