This week was awesome! I have had some great experience and have been able to really feel like I am in charge in the classroom. My greatest strength has been planning and executing my plans. The opportunity that my CT has given me to plan for Friday and have the two class periods on my own has been great. On Friday, my CT needed to leave in the afternoon so I continued with my plan without her there. There was a sub in the room for support, but I really felt like the teacher! The students response to me being the teacher was great and I feel like this experience is going to help me in all aspects of my intern year. My confidence has been able to grow as a result of it. One of my favorite things to do is plan and come up with activities so I have been really enjoying the chance to do that as well.
I continue to work on discipline as the weeks go on. This week I tested out some of the things my CT advised me to do, such as pulling kids out to talk when they get disruptive and sending kids back to their seats during community meetings. My opportunity came up on Wednesday of this week and I did pull a kid out while he was being disruptive in book club. We had a good talk in the hall and I explained to him what our expectations for him were during book club. I feel like I had a moment to bond with that particular student and got a chance to see what may work for me. I do not really know if it did any good because he still had to call home to tell them that he was being disruptive even after I pulled him out. My goal for this week and the following weeks will be to find something that works for me and shows results, without being too harsh of course.
I have really learned that as the teacher, you need to be prepared with all questions that come your way and be able to explain everything in your lesson. I did a lesson on pronouns and they were specifically personal pronouns listed on the worksheet. They began asking me why her was not one. I ended up looking it up online and giving them the answer, but if I did not have the internet I feel like I would have not known the answer. The thing that would help me for this week would be doing the assignments I give in advance so I can tell if there are things that I need to know in order to effectively teach the lesson. I think that this will help me most in math, because I do not have a lot of confidence in my own personal math skills.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
It is a good idea to do everything that you can to feel prepared and comfortable teaching a lesson...you never know what questions students come up with, but you can predict some of them by reviewing your lesson. Also note what questions they do ask for future reference.
Post a Comment