One of my biggest accomplishments this week was being offered an Early Contract in the county I've been student teaching. This was such a huge relief and so satisfying to know that all of the hard work I've put in over the past 10 weeks has truly been noticed and has paid off.
My experiences over the past 10 weeks has taught me more than I could have ever imagined. I entered student teaching thinking I would learn lessons about how to teach an effective lesson or how to differentiate better. While both of those things were definitely lessons learned along the way, there were also lessons I never expected. Such as, how to be a good coworker, how to collaborate with coworkers, how to comfort the child who loves school more than home, how to attempt to balance a social life and teaching, along with a long list of many more.
This week I spent a lot of time analyzing the differences in mine and my CEs teaching, now that I have a more developed teaching style than I did prior to student teaching. This coming week I will observing 5 other teacher at my school and I will get to learn from their teaching styles as well.
This week I exhibited 1A, teachers lead in their classroom. I did this by planning small group math rotations based on observations from the previous days math lesson.
I exhibited 2D, teachers adapt their teaching for the benefit of students with special needs. I did this by adjusting my lessons based on student's reading levels for guided reading rotations.
I exhibited 3A, teachers align their instruction to NCSCOS. As I aligned my plans to the NCSCOS.
I exhibited 4A, Teachers know the ways in which learning takes place, and they know the appropriate levels of intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development of their students. I did this by readjusting my plans to engage students during math rotations.
I exhibited 5A, teachers analyze student learning. I did this by remediating and allowing students to retake their measurement test.
The countdown to graduation begins!
