Last Blog... Better Late Than Never

This is very late I think, but I thought that I would add it just in case. I decided to reflect on my experience overall this semester. I had the best time! My class was the best, I had great professors, and a wonderful cooperating teacher. This was one of the best experieneces that I have ever had. Some days were hard and I did not think that I would get through it, but I did! I am so happy that I got to do this! This experience has shown me that I am in the right major. I am so happy that I learned what I did in these last few months. This experience has taught me so much, not only about teaching, but about myself.

Unit!!!

This has been the best two weeks in partnership yet! I have been able to plan and teach a whole unit and it has been wonderful. I think that I have had such a great time doing this unit because it has made me feel like a real teacher. It has had its ups and downs with observations, planning, and my smartboard not working. These were all things that stressed me out and made me nervous but they are also things that will happen all of the time when I become a teacher. This experience has been one that I will always remember. I am so sad that I only have a few more weeks with the kids. I feel like I have gotten to know them so well that I cant even imagine leaving them. I have enjoyed these past two weeks so much and I cant wait to have a classroom of my own. I know that the teaching profession is the one that I am meant for.

Blog 3

I am having a lot of fun during partnership! It has been a really great experience! I am learning so much and really getting a lot of teaching experience in the classroom! I am also seeing the hardships of teaching. I have been trying to help one student in my classroom since I have been there. He is so oblivious to what is going on around him. He cannot concentrate, he does not care at all about school, and he just has a hard time in the classroom. I try so hard to have patience with him because he has had a really hard life, but it is so hard for me to be patient when you can tell the student does not care about anything that you are trying to tell him. I have had some success with this student, he has improved in some areas like some of his organization has improved. I am just having a hard time keeping his attention not just during my lessons but during my cooperating teachers too. She does not always pay attention to him when he is off task. I try to help keep him on task but he needs to learn how to do that on his own. I really want to try and get his attention during my lesson. I am going to work really hard to make my lessons exciting for him so that he can stay on task and for once feel productive in the classroom!

Blog TWO!!!

I have had some really amazing things happen over the last week! I got my tutoring student and she and I have been working together for three sessions so far. The first session she was very shy so we did a get to know you activity and she seemed to open up. Then we started assessing. This was probably one of the most challenging things that I have done in my teaching yet. There is just so much riding on the assessments that you cannot mess them up! I was having the hardest time finding her instructional level when doing a running record. I was getting really frustrated because she was breezing through all of the books that her ZPD that I got from the school said she could not read. So I kept trying and trying and finally on the 6th or 7th running record I found her level. That was a really big accomplishment for me because now I am able to continue with my tutoring. I also got to help one of my students stay organized this week and several times he has come up to me to show me his desk and to tell me that he is doing what I asked him too. This is a student that did not look at himself proudly and now he has something to be proud of. He is just so excited for that extra attention and that makes me feel like I am actually doing something in that classroom. I also go some good news from my teacher! She invited me to teach anytime that I want. I think that she is finally seeing that I am capable of doing the small things around the classroom and is starting to trust me with something big. I am really loving this whole partnership thing. It can be very challenging sometimes and so stressful but I know that it will all pay off in the end and I am having a great time with my class!

Part Two of First Impressions:

I am making this blog not only because it is a requirement for this class but because they are useful to the classroom. My blog will be used for me to reflect on the happenings of being in partenership and my overall thoughts, frustrations, celebrations, and feelings towards everything that has to do with being a partnership student. I do not know that I really have any features on my blog but I did choose the style because it looked like a teacher. All of the books in the background reminded me of a teacher. I think that I would be really excited to use my blog in my teaching. I think that the first thing that I would use a blog for would be to communicate with parents things that are happening in the classroom and with their children and then I would also keep a classroom blog each year to let students or myself record neat things that are happening in the classroom and that are making them excited. This could be a fun way to reach out to techy children and a cool way for me to see what works in the classroom and what does not. I am really excited to see what we can do with blogs this semester.

First Impressions! :)

These first few weeks at my partnership school have been so much fun! I am so excited to be actually putting everything that I have been learning into practice. I have really gotten to be there in the classroom and that has been a great experience so far. I think that this whole thing no matter how hard it is will be a really awesome learning experience and will make me grow stronger as a teacher. I am really enjoying the classes too. I feel like the teachers are so supportive and you can actually go and talk to them about things that you are struggling with . They are very approachable. One of the highlights of my week was feeling like a real teacher. For the first part of my experience I wasn't really feeling like I was doing anything much other than observing and this week I really felt like I was doing something. I got to help the students during one of their activities. They were asking questions and I was answering them and I felt like they really responded to me. I am really excited to see what next week brings.

Practice Post! :)

I am a somewhat new blogger and I just wanted to test this out :)