Blog Three

For my third post I would like to comment on Elise’s “Help for New Teachers” post. Like her I also volunteer at Butler Campus and have seen many of the same situations. It’s incredible to me sometimes what the teachers are supposed to work with. There seem to be so few children and yet even fewer books which is obviously very detrimental to their education. I have also talked to my teacher about this. She has been teaching for a while, not at Butler, but long enough to know how to create creative lesson plans. She too sympathized with the newer teachers who weren’t as able to make lesson plans without materials and didn’t know of all of the resources. I hadn’t heard about the mentoring program for the new teachers but I think that is a fabulous idea. I think that one problem that many schools face is that they don’t have great TEACHERS. They may have very intelligent people working for them, but they oftentimes don’t have the ability to relay that information. I think that the mentors would really help the staff at Butler especially considering their lack of resources.