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My classroom will be a "well oiled machine." Like a football team, my students will be the team and I will be their coach. My students will know what is expected of them. I will be able to complete all the lessons I have planned for each day. At the end of each day we will have all achieved our goals. I will have taught them and they will have learned. I firmly believe that students want to learn. I think that they do not show this all the time, but they can make sense out of what they learn by making the information their own. I strongly believe in Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. I believe that students learn in many different ways. I want to be able to create my lessons around this fact, that student’s have many different learning styles. I believe that external pressures, rewards and grades are huge motivators for students, but I do not think this a way for them to learn. I think a motivator such as filling a jar of marbles is a great idea for them, but can only go so far. I want to be an assertive teacher and I will need to set boundaries and limitations for my students based on the rules we make on the first day of school. I will need to model these rules to show the students that everyone must follow them, including myself. I want to take and show a general interest in my student’s life, and not make it seem that I do not want to be around them. I want technology to be a focal point in my classroom. I want to show students that there are different ways of learning, and technology plays a huge role in this learning.