Fires then and now

When I first wrote this blogs I had a stern belief that students should just follow the rules and do what is expected of them without having to be asked again. I believe in strict rules and classroom reinforcement tactics. From the beginning this has remained mostly the same. The degree in which I felt this way has decreased but not significantly. It is for these reasons that schools have changed so drastically that has made me really doubt and question my choice to become a teacher because we are teaching in the 21^st century, a lifestyle that does not compliment my teaching philosophy. My thoughts over practicum have changed from the beginning but they haven’t changed too drastically. I see the importance of why we need to keep students engaged and try and make them want to learn but I still revert back to my initial thoughts that students should be motivated to go to school and do the work (maybe not the work part). I think the major way that my thoughts have changed from before reading to fires to now is that now I have a better understanding that schools are not the way they were before. With that being said, that means as teachers we have to try even harder to get students engaged and to care about the content area.