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Kahoot! is a great learning game for kids.  Teachers are able to ask their own questions (multiple choice, short answer, or true and false). Students use their phones to connect with the teachers quiz, answering the questions using technology, and still having a fun time while learning. Another goal of mine is to use fun games such as Kahoot! to create a fun, learning environment.

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Kahoot! | Learning games | Make learning awesome!

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Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that brings engagement and fun to 1+ billion players every year at school, at work, and at home.

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Teaching 5-8th grade would be my ideal teaching age/range. I think it is a perfect age to teach because they are no longer being dependent so much and are starting to branch off on their own. Opposed to older kids, they are not so snotty and bratty throughout high school and having to worry about ACT, SAT, and all different things they have going on for college prep.  I see myself going on those little field trips, planning field day, having mandatory parent/teacher conferences, things like that, being more involved in your students and classroom.

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I always wondered what it really is like being a teacher. After reading some of these articles, it helped me open my eyes to see what it is like being ''in the field''.

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Below are 10 articles about education, teaching, and students that we feel are essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what it's like to be a teacher today. Read them and comment with the articles you think best sum up the experience of being a teacher for our next post.

"I would tell them that students who break rules at our school often don't receive consequences. Last year our school had a higher number of office referrals and in-school suspensions, so this year teachers have been 'strongly encouraged' to deal with discipline problems themselves. That means that unless the offense is severe or dangerous, students remain in class, whether or not their behavior is blatantly defiant."

"There's an element of this rage at bad teachers that's hard to talk about, and so it's often avoided: the dismaying truth that we don't know how to educate poor inner-city and rural kids in this country."

"But what makes a good teacher? There have been many quests for the one essential trait, and they have all come up empty-handed. Among the factors that do not predict whether a teacher will succeed: a graduate-school degree, a high score on the SAT, an extroverted personality, politeness, confidence, warmth, enthusiasm and having passed the teacher-certification exam on the first try."

"My school, like all schools, is big on research-based strategies. Anything we do with the kids, they want to see a study proving that it works. And yet, like every school I've ever seen, we also try to use fear to motivate the kids to achieve on standardized tests ... despite the fact a mountain of research tells us that's pointless."

"The hard part of teaching is coming to grips with this: There is never enough. There is never enough time. There are never enough resources. There is never enough you."

"The condition of a school building may have a stronger influence on student performance than the combined influences of family background, socioeconomic status, school attendance and behavior, according to the National Clearinghouse for Educational Statistics. More specifically, students who attend better buildings have test scores ranging from 5 to 17 percentile points higher than students in substandard facilities."

"We can't answer the question 'Is tech useful in schools?' until we've grappled with a deeper question: 'What kinds of learning should be taking place in those schools?' If we favor an approach by which students actively construct meaning, an interactive process that involves a deep understanding of ideas and emerges from the interests and questions of the learners themselves, well, then we'd be open to kinds of technology that truly support this kind of inquiry.

"The overwhelming isolation of students of color in schools with mostly low-income classmates threatens to undermine efforts both to improve educational outcomes and to provide a pipeline of skilled workers for the economy at a time when such students comprise a majority of the nation's public school enrollment."

"Because Don and I were lucky (white) enough to live in middle class neighborhoods with good schools, we had opportunities denied to many other children. Don and I read our way to better lives because we had books to read in the first place. Many children raised in poverty-disproportionally children of color-grow up in communities without meaningful, consistent access to books or positive reading experiences."

"Teaching is like a relationship. As awesome as it would be to be given a script of exactly what you should say on a first date (instead of, for example, rambling incessantly about facts you learned about dolphins from a podcast), life just doesn't work that way. If you did follow a script on a first date, you would sound like a robot and be completely unable to maintain any kind of conversation, let alone a relationship. Teaching is not that different. A different kind of relationship, yes, but one in which authenticity, responsiveness, and listening matter fundamentally."

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10 Articles That Will Help You Understand What It's Like to Be a Teacher

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Below are 10 articles about education, teaching, and students that we feel are essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what it's like to be a teacher today. Read them and comment with the articles you think best sum up the experience of being a teacher for our next post.

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I plan to get my teaching degree at Governors State University. After some time I will come back and get my masters degree. Written at: Governors State University, room D2430G.

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What made you decide to be a teacher/educator? What goals do you have when it comes to the use of technology in your classroom?

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This is the first class that I am taking in my college career toward my degree.  My goal in this class is to help open my eyes about the kind of teaching I want to do and the different tools I can use to be a great teacher.   "Participate in a local learning community to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning", that is my objective for this class.  I hope to engage with my community and the other teachers around me to come up with new and exciting ways in technology to help our students learn in a more effective way.  There is no better way then to teach them using technology, because kids now a days are always on their phones, laptops, tablets, etc. As as community, we can come up with a fun, effective way to use technology to our advantage and to help kids learn through the devices that they use day to day!

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Since I was a little girl, I always pictured myself being a teacher.  When I was about six years old, my mother bought me a chalk board/dry erase board for Christmas. I would tell my mom and two little brothers to sit down because I wanted to teach them about anything and everything I could.  My mom told me I would be at it for hours, writing on the board, talking to no one, pretending like I really had a class of students behind me.  Most of my family are teachers, of all different subjects.  Of course though, math is my subject.  I love every bit of math, except geometry, but does anyone really enjoy geometry? My God Mother was a math teacher at Mother Macaulay. She is the one person that inspired me to follow the path of teaching.  She knew that it was something I really had interest in and something that I would be great at!  Throughout the years, I have thought about other things to do with my life and teaching is the only one that speaks to me.  It is the only major I can see myself enjoying.  This is the reason I am going to be a teacher one day, and a great one!