In what appeared to be then "red carpet" night for teaching awards, Ms. Ellen Fisher won her first Teacher of the Year award.  As she dazzled down the red carpet, stopping and posing for pictures, Ann Curry from the Today Show asked why she thought she had won this award.


Ms. Fisher responded after many years at UNM and through following her heart at CNM she has come to realize how to be the a great teacher and parent.  With her award winning novel called Green Earth she has been able to teach her students and children through nature and not political agendas. 

There were several peers, environmentalist, and other teachers that were all there to congratulate her on what is an epic day for her.  One student quoted " I really do have someone to look up to now" While in the background you can hear chanting and harmony all at once.


During the acceptance speech she thanked God, but did not Tebow, her parents, family, and all the teachers that put up with her through out all the years.  As she was leaving the grand finale she, of course, fell down the stairs cause she is known to be quite clumsy but she just laughed it off.  Congratulations to the Teacher of the Year, Ms. Ellen Fisher. We thank you for all that you do.

OK I am going to  make this short. I attempted to  do this assignment the other day and my computer crashed....I then attempted on a second computer when the screen got hit with a ball and broke in 3 places. I believe God has told me now that this is not a homework that I need to be doing. There are just enough signs. I do not know my philosophy on teaching because I have not taught yet and as for the the Super Bowl I was going for the Giants because I am a Packers fan and that is who I lost to. I am borrowed time on this computer so I will not be responding to anyone elses blogs for this week.  I am sorry for the inconvenience and inconsistency of this blog. I am hoping by the middle of this coming week I will actually have something that will work to my favor.  Thank You,
Ellen Fisher

Blogs/Wikis

Well, truthfully, it has been a frustrating week from a blogging sense.  I have emailed several people trying to get the assignment with no luck but now have receive information about it form our instructor. 
And on a technical side two of my computers at home with not allow the blogger.com website to come up our computer. Not matter what system we are using.  Well with that said I found that the Ferriter reading was a quite helpful resource.

I believe some of these blogs/phlogs willl just completely rejected or not read.  Others will or might have a profound impact on the intructional society, as well as,  the learning society.  I completely agree with Ferriter that it is nice to be able to read/learn/understand what peers around one is saying about the same sort of subjects.  With that said, blogging is basically one mans' diary that is just happened to be shared.

Now not everyone will agree on what is written but that is what learning is all about.  Having to questions others sayings, teachings, and motives.  I believe this article has a lot of great information in it about how to reference other sites.  I am particaularly interested in the (www.edublogs.org). I have a feeling in the future I could use this site or one like it to really get to know my students, as well as, my peers and study groups. 

I believe a wiki would be great for a group activity, say in high school, to be able to through a bunch of information together on what each person is supposed to go over with in the project. Once all the information, ideas are collected that they can come together and talk/analyze their soon to be presentation. 

I think blogs/wikis will be a great tool of progressive learning for peers, students and teachers alike.

I believe that this is my first"official" phlog. If that is a real term?  So to talk about teaching versus schooling.  Truthfully, before I had never thought there was a difference until I read all the questions and it made me think.  I guess that is the point for these question to begin with. 

I now think that there is a difference and that schooling seems to be a technical term to me where as education is what a student actually takes home and applies to the real world.  Schooling, to me, seems to be the action of teaching and education is the process that one goes through.  The questions make me think of how " he got schooled on the court" which means to me he has been taught or taught a lesson depending on how bad it was. 

I do not think growing up most students understand or would even think of the difference between schooling and education and if one is more important than the other.  My own experiences would make me believe that I was taught (schooled) in Spanish but was not fully education or engulfed in the culture itself.  I was a straight A, Spanish National Honor Society, student and to this day can not hold a conversation in Spanish, let alone be able to understand it. 

A fundamental purpose in teaching is to spread knowledge or belief's to a student.  Whether it be good or bad a person can literally be taught anything.  Now whether a student understands it is another question.  Overall, everone can be taught but not everyone is educated.

     My philosophy of education is that everyone sees it differently, responds to it differently, and will in turn teach subjects differently.  I believe that education should mention facts, experiments, and teachers should be able to express the facts in different ways so that each student can learn.

       The reason I believe that everyone sees education different is because everyone is brought up differently.  Through religious beliefs, parents involvement and follow through, and how the teacher appropriates the information.

       The reason I believe that everyone responds to it differently is cause not everyone agrees and believes in the same things.  I do not believe that teachers can teach morality but that that is taught from the home, or it should be anyways.  I do not believe that a child only learns through how others act but how he/she is taught and respected or disrespected in some cases.

       I feel that a teacher can make or break a students willingness to learn and to accept when is being taught.  Teachers have an effect on children's lives sometimes more that an actual parent does. I have experienced through being a director of child care before that this day and age parents are leaning more and more on teachers to teach morality, respect, acceptance, and understanding.

     I have been through 8 years of college and had changed my major several times. Never once was it because of a teacher though.  It was because I tried to prove to my  parents that I could do one subject, hated it, then finally decided to go on my own with Geology.  Many people believe that they should their parents like that and others do not. 

     Overall,  I believe that education can highly shape and effect a students life but not should not be the only thing.  Unless, it is education from life experiences, parents, teachers and other peers.