One-Third of My Student Teaching Experience is Completed!

This week was nothing special! I do feel as if the workload was lightened. Monday, Mrs. Mann went over their tests they took before I started teaching. Tuesday they went to the computer lab to schedule next year’s classes. Wednesday and Thursday turned out to be workshop days for the students. I decided to have them teach the remaining vocabulary words to see how they would run the classroom if they were in charge.

I learned that through all my planning, I will need to make adjustments. Thursday at the beginning of second period, some student pulled the fire alarm. It cut our class time down to about twenty minutes. Therefore, instead of starting their teaching on Tuesday, I pushed everything back a day. This pushed the day I’ll be giving them the test back, and the day we’re starting the research paper back a day. Even though it was a bit upsetting at first, I knew unseen obstacles would come into play. Now that I have a four-day weekend ahead of me, I can redo my plans for the next few weeks. The funny aspect of that is, my new plans might need to be changed again. I’m learning that to be a teacher you need to be very flexible.

I also took part in my first parent/teacher conference this week. I loved the way Mrs. Mann worded her answers and took charge of the meeting. I know I have the best cooperating teacher. She highlighted the student’s best qualities, while mentioning the student’s “needs improvement” areas. As you can tell by that last sentence, I need to work on my wording of sentences.

Well week three is completed. I have nine more left. I’m sure it will go fast; I can’t believe I finished one-third of my student teaching experience.