Hello! my name is Monica Shaner and I have created this blog to explain my teaching philosophies and how I plan to achieve them in my classroom. Thanks for visiting!!!!!

Teaching Techniques

My teaching techniques include students doing group activities. This helps them get out of there comfort zone and interact with other students that they may might not know. Second, I believe in making social science fun and interesting by incorporating "bell ringers" at the beginning of the class. This will help get students on task while making it a friendly competition to see who finishes the little assignment the quickest. Finally, I goal to make sure all students come out of my class with an understanding of major and minor events in history, government, and a sense of respect for community and leadership.

Multi-culturally Minded

I believe that I am very multi-culturally minded and do not discriminate against any ethnic group. I believe every child should have the same opportunity at a GREAT education to help themselves and their community. We live in in a very diverse world and education should also be diverse so that all children are included.

Technology

History tends to get a bad reputation for being very boring and dry. For technology I hope to have a Promethean Board in my classroom. This kind of technology is wonderful to make lessons come alive and it also makes it more interesting to the students. I hope to use sites like Skype to reach out a let other, educators form all over the country, to come and talk with the students. With a tight budget this makes it like a in class field trip.

Philosophy

My philosophy is to be a progressive teacher. This means I would like for my class to branch out of the classroom and do hands on activities rather than sitting in straight rows and taking notes while I lecture. That is not all children's learning style. Being a secondary social science teacher, I want to make history come alive to my students and for them not to regurgitate what I teach, but to truly understand the lesson.