Mr. D'Amato - My Education Blog

 I believe that there are some core ideas about "what is good teaching" and how to be a good teacher. The first way is to make sure that your classroom is a safe environment for all of the students. I believe that it is important to promote open minds that can engage in an intelligent discussion with peers. Good teaching also provides a classroom that is organized and clear; this will reduce the amount of stress that the students will have to endure so they can focus on the actual objective of the classroom. Being flexible and understanding is a great part of good teaching because every student is going to be unique. Being black and white with how you treat students will not be beneficial to you or them. In order to be a good teacher or promote good teaching then you must provide active feedback to your students. What are they doing that is good? What can they improve? How can they do this? What steps should they take? Most importantly good teaching requires the teacher to re...

 " In many ways storytellers are alchemists. What is storytelling?" In order to be a great storyteller then you need to be able to take a story and make it interesting. This is similar to how the alchemist was trying to turn regular metal into gold; this was because gold was worth more. If you can take a story that may be boring but tell it in a way that creates excitement / more worth then you can be considered an alchemist. The art of storytelling is hard, two people can tell the same story but the way it is told can elicit certain emotions that make the story way more interesting. The storyteller also understands the type of emotions that the audience is "here" for. Do they want to laugh, cry, or question the scene? 

 

 

 1. The first article by Tim Martin was very interesting because he raised the question about how important fictional children's books actually are. For the most part, these are the first books that children either read or have read to them; this is a staple in every child's education. I think that it is interesting that the best fictional children's books do not get the recognition that they deserve.  2. The videos about what exactly counts as text were very interesting. Basically, I believe that text should always be accompanied by something, often images could do more than what text. And a combination of images and text (multimodal) would be the most effective for everyone.  Source: TCmake_photo / iStock / Getty This picture for example describes what multimodal can be without any words.  3. I believe that the article by Brigid Alverson does a great job of arguing for Graphic Novels and it seems clear to me. Actually, in high school one of my history classes was t...