Monday, February 15, 2010

Personality type

I took the personality test and it said that I am an ENFJ. Which is a teacher. Which suites me perfectly after reading the personality traits and some of the other interesting things that it mentioned about my personality. I believe that by having differint personality traits, we do learn differintly. By knowing that not all people are the same, as a teacher I will realize that I cant teach the same way to all of my students. Not only teach, but interact with them in differint ways so I can have a good relationship with them.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Spread sheet

As a basketball coach, I have used spreadsheet to calculate my players statistics and have it all in a nice easy to find what you are looking for layout. Spreadsheet allows you to do things you want at a much MUCH quicker pace. such as putting names in alphabetical order, or averaging out a whole bunch of numbers at one time. For teachers, spreadsheet is very useful in the classroom. It allows you to take attendence much easier and especially recording grades is now less time cosuming than it was in the past. Now, with spreadsheet, if you ever want to know the students' average, it is right there at the click of a button. Theres no need to type in every single grade into a calculator then devide them all. Instead, just highlight them, click average, and there it is! The coolest thing is that you dont have to do that for every student either, you can just highlight the entire section of grades and there averages will show up in a new colum. I have also used spreadsheet to create seatting charts, tournament brackets, and many other things that I have had to do for my job as a teacher/coach.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Inspiration Program

I really enjoyed the ideas and the programs presented in the video. I believe that if any teacher were to see it, they would be able to find something that they could use in their classroom. Students today learn in differint ways than they did ten years ago, even just five years ago. Today they are more visual learners thatn just being told what to do or readding what the answers are. With the program, they will be able to see the things they need to do which will be more helpful to them. As well as being more entertained i think.

The best part about this program might be the fact that it helps with organization. One of my biggest faults is not being organized. I usualy know where stuff is but its usualy with a bunch of other stuff that has nothing to do with it. So it would be benificial to me and i believe all people like me to have. Teachers need to be organized because the students are dependent on them to have their papers or at least the proof that they have gotten credit for work that they have done. The progam to me seems like it is more in our time than the normal way of doing things. the computer is used very much these days in everyday life. So useing it more in the classroom to me, only makes more sense.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

My introduction

For some reason it didn't post this when I did it the first time so I'm doing it in class today.

My name is Bryan Jones and am a coach at Fannindel High School. I am the head Junior High everything and the assistant on Varsity for pretty much everything as well. The school is VERY small. There are less than 90 kids in the whole school, 6th-12th grade. When I finally graduate, I am planning on being a Physical education teacher and a football basketball and/or baseball coach at the high school level. I played all three of those sports when I was in high school, and got all district five times along with lots of other awards. This class is so much fun!!!