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Existentialism
Existentialism is a highly subjective philosophy that stresses the importance of the individual and emotional commitment to living authentically. It emphasizes individual choice over the importance of rational theories. Jean Paul Sartre, the French philosopher, claimed that "existence precedes essence." People are born, and each person must define him or herself through choices in life. Influential existentialists include Jean Paul Sartre and Soren Kierkegaard.

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Teacher Interview:

Mr. Devet

Lindsey Hall

Q: How long have you been teaching?

A: 4 years

Q: What do you have to do to get/renew your teaching license?

A: Take more classes to get a higher education or take different classes specifically for teaching stuff.

Q: What are some of your duties that I wouldn’t expect a teacher to do?

A: Being a neutral party in people's personal lives and being there to help them.

Q: Do you ever collaborate with other teachers?

A: All the time, many teachers that teach the same subject talk so they can teach the same things on the same day.

Q: What was your first year like?

A: Interesting, he was a 22 year old white male, teaching in a school that was mostly blacks.

Q: What is the salary like? Do you get vacation or sick time?  How is working under a contract different from other jobs?

A: 1. It is manageable if you don't have kids in your first couple of years of teaching.

2. 2 days off for personal days and then 10 days of sick days

3. Every two years it is stressful when you have to renew the contract, but it is not that different from other jobs.

Q: How do you feel about students being friends with their teachers on Facebook?

A: He doesn't agree with it unless it is for a club or something, until after that person graduates.

Q: What do you think are the 3 top things students need to learn in your class?

A: 1. Problem solving

2. How to work in a group

3. How to complete tasks that they don't want to complete.

Q: How do you accomplish those things?

A: Trying to create a classroom where people want to work in and making students feeling personally accountable for themselves.

Q: How do you know that you have accomplished teaching those things?

A: Observation, and self evaluation. Like what is going okay and what is not going okay, and the amount of effort students put into their work.

Q: What is the stress level of being a teacher?

A: Depends on the day, can range from normal stress to rip your hair out and not knowing what to do.

Q: Do you have any tips for organization for a new teacher?

A: Get a plan together and stick to it the best you can.

Q: How many hours per week do you work and not get paid for it?

A: Around 10 hours

Q: What is the best part of being a teacher?

A: Hanging out with all of the students.

Q: What is the hardest part of being a teacher?

A: Preparing and grading papers.

Q: What do you wish you had known when you first started teaching?

A: How much behind the scenes stuff that happens between coworkers, like drama or political things.

Q: What do you think are the qualities of a good teacher?

A: Someone with high empathy, patience, and having a desire to be a good teacher.

Q: Where do you get your lesson ideas?

A: Other teachers, or from previous years.

Q: Has one of your lessons ever failed completely?

A:  Yeah, lessons fail all of the time.

Q: How often do you get sick? Do you think working in a school has boosted your immune system?

A: 1. At the second week of aug. and week after football ends and at the end of vacations.

2. Yes

Q: Do you have a trick for learning students’ names?

A: No, and he is really bad at it.

Q: Is coaching and teaching tough to juggle?

A: Yes, the students are the ones that pay for it the most

Q: How do you deal with disruptive students?

A: Try and get ahead of the problem and build up a good relationship with them

Q: What do you do when students make fun of the way that you talk?

A: Deal with it, it is just their way of joking around, if it gets too bad he talks to them about it.

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Instructions:

HOW TO PLAY

Select a piece to play with

Roll die to see who goes first (highest number goes first)

Then go clockwise around table

Roll your die and move your player’s piece to the corresponding number on the die

If you land on a pink spot, you miss a turn due to lack of sleep

If you land on an orange or blue spot, pick up the Fun Facts card and read it out loud

If there’s points on the card keep track of them

If you land on a yellow spot pick up a Win A Prize card and read it out loud

If there’s points on the card keep track

If you land on a purple spot, pick up a mystery card and read it out loud

If there are points on the card keep track of them

All cards are worth one point, but some cards have extra bonus points

Some cards make you lose points

Modifying the Activity for Special Needs:

Scenario: A child with high functioning asperger's syndrome.

We would specify and go very in-depth on directions and the rules of the game.

Each step would need be very detailed and they are in the correct order so there is no confusion for the player.

We would give them paper to keep tally of their points, and have them double check their math after each turn.

We would prepare for the possibility that a player could lose a turn or lose points if they pick a certain card.

Emphasize that the game is for fun.

Questions:

What time does Wayzata start? Because they were the newest school to switch.

How did they conduct the study?

Why is it okay for young kids to start earlier that high schoolers, why is it mostly studies on teens not adolescents?

How did you come up with the game board idea

Why did we pick this topic?

Does this affect you?

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"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop"
-Confucius

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1. Pretend that you’re in an interview and your potential employer asks you

what you learned during your Service-Learning experience. How would you

respond?

I learned that it is super important to have patience and to not get upset when a child doesn't understand something right away because they are just starting to learn something new so they aren't going to get it right away. They are going to mess up a lot before they start to understand what is going on. So you have to be willing to wait and correct them until they understand what they are doing.

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1. Answer this question: Think about the work you are doing for your classrooms and students. What are your future professional goals? What are you doing in this experience right now that you think will be important for your profession, even if it’s not teaching?

I'm not entirely sure what my future professional goals are but I would like to be able to present myself with confidence and be kind to everyone that I meet. What I think will be important for my profession would be to be kind, polite, and patient with those around me and to treat others how I would want to be treated because not everyone thinks or learns the same way so some people might be a little behind others and that's okay.

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Lindsey is a wonderful addition to our classroom! She is friendly, caring, and excited to work with the students! She is flexible to our daily activities. We all enjoy having Lindsey in our class!

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Some of my favorite memories with the kids were when we did the Make A Wish Foundation with them. They were able to donate so much more then I thought. It was a lot of fun being able to count how much money they brought in each day and they were just as excited about knowing how much they brought in as we were. I loved reading and writing with them and seeing how far they have come since I first started working with them.

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White Bear Lake Area High School

Dear Mrs. Maple,

My name is Lindsey Hall and I took this class so that I can get more hands on experience with kids and to be able to learn how to work with them and to be able to have a positive impact on them. I also took this class so that I can see a little better if this is what I really want to go into and to see if I can work with kids in this way. Some of the things that I like to do in my free time are reading, drawing, and hanging out with my friends and family. I have a job working as a coach at Flips Gymnastics that I love. I love being able to teach them new things and seeing them grow and continue to get better.

Throughout the years that I have been in school there have been a lot of teachers that have made a positive impact in my life. One teacher in particular is Mrs. Hutson. She always made me laugh, and I felt comfortable talking to her about anything. I felt like I could ask her questions, but I could also joke around with her. Which was a really good thing for me because I can be very antisocial and scared to talk to some of my teachers, but having her be so nice and open to talk about anything really helped me start to open up and it taught me that it is okay to ask for help when you are confused about something. That really changed me and made me want to be able to have that same impact on other people.

What I think it means to be a good teacher is that you need to have a lot of patience with the kids. You need to be able to take a breath when things get frustrating, because sometimes the kids don’t know any better or they need to learn that what they’re doing isn’t the right thing. Another thing that you need to be able to handle a bad situation in the best way possible because you need to teach them how to solve something in a respectful manner and not in a harsh way. Also you need to be able to show positive body language and teach them how to have good social skills and to be able to communicate with other people in a respectful way. Two of my strengths are that I am able to learn quickly and get the hang out things and also be patient with the kids because I understand that it can get hard for them and that they can get easily frustrated. Some weaknesses that I have are that at times it can get very difficult for me to keep my cool and at times I can bring in personal emotions that don’t relate to the classroom but I am working on getting those under control so that it doesn’t affect the kids in any way.

What it is that I would like to get out of this class would be to learn more about what actually goes on in the classroom and to further my knowledge of how younger kids work and how they learn. I want to see if this is something that I am capable of doing and that I would enjoy doing for many years. I am hoping that being in this class will help me decide if I am capable of becoming a teacher. I would like to thank you for this opportunity to further my education ands the opportunity to help kids.