Reflection 10/25

This week was a rough week. I am glad that its over and that I have some time to relax and prepare for next week. I have been struggling with my home base classes behavior and the overall dynamic of them. The kids are awesome, but put them together and I feel like its chaos and beginning to get unmanageable. On Friday I ended up turning off the movie they were finishing and holding an emergency community meeting instead. We talked about what the problems are in the room and what were some ways that this could change them. I did tell them that there will be no more fun privileges like movies for a while and it will not come back until their behavior shows they deserve it again. On top of all that I have been feeling extremely sick and tired, but I have been trying to not let it show.

On a more positive note, I am continuously growing as a teacher and don't feel nervous at all any more when I am preparing to teach. I feel like I had another successful teaching experience on Friday even though I had to change up my plans a little bit. I am noticing that for the most part the students do not understand a lot of this grammar stuff I have been teaching as review (nouns, verbs) so I took some extra time on them and cut out some of my lesson for Friday to focus more on that. This in turn will affect what I do Monday and I feel like this way they will really be able to learn this stuff since its all things they do need to know in order to be successful. I have been pretty successful in keeping things together this week even though its been pretty crazy with all the unit planning, MEAP week tension, and all the extra stuff I had to fit into my schedule. I need to be able to juggle things in this profession and I am happy to see its happening.

This week I would like to work more on my time management and my ability to get things done, but not let it overtake my life. Even though I've been getting everything done I still feel like I overlook my own sanity in the process.