Sunday, April 12, 2015

Blog 7


To ensure a smooth transition from you to your cooperating teacher, I hope to accomplish only one thing. Because, tomorrow we are starting a new unit on Waves and it is a month long unit, I hope to prepare all the lessons and activities that I would have thought, if I was to finish out the unit with my class, so that there is continuity of learning and scaffolding and so that lessons aren’t disjointed.
 
I’d have to say that my greatest growth experience so far during my student teaching time would be learning how to relax and not be so nervous while teaching. My fear of public speaking, while greatly diminished, before the start of my student teaching was ever present, and it got in a way of being a confident teacher. Now I can say that I no longer suffer from that affliction, and I have no apprehensions about standing up in front of my students and teaching.

I’m very excited about attending the April 27th Alumni Panel. Given a chance I would ask the Panel what was the most difficult part of first day of school on the new job? How can we prepare for it to make it easier?

After spending 17 weeks with the student of 7th grade, I believe that it is my cooperating teacher who made my teaching experience a pleasant and fairly easy assignment, I will also miss the 7th grade teaching team who made me feel welcome from day one and treated me like one of them. However, I believe that it is the students that I will miss the most.

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