My First Day as a Science Pioneer!

The first day of science class was a worthwhile experience where we had the time to reflect on our history and past experiences with science. Class began with our teacher introducing herself and sharing her background with the class, which is important when trying to develop a relationship between teachers and their students. We then made name cards to place on the spots where we sit, so Dr. Smirnova would learn our names better. When I become a teacher I'm definitely going to use name tags because I believe that they really help in trying to remember students names. I might even take pictures of my students on the first day and place those on the name cards as well. Next we broke off into teams and picked a team name. Our team came up with the name "MST Maniacs". We chose this name because we were given time to talk about our interests and what we had in common, and our team realized that we all took MST classes in the past. Two of our group members, Clarisa and Stephanie, are both math majors, and Bridget and I are IT majors, so the "MST Maniacs" fit us perfectly. We then reflected on our past science experiences by ourselves, and as a group, and we all said we thought a good science teacher has to be motivating, fun, and knowledgeable. In the future I am definitely going to be as motivating as possible to help engage my students in learning science, because often science is a subject of little interest to elementary aged children.