I survived chaperoning my first middle school dance on Friday. I had heard horror stories from some of the teachers about having to break up inappropriate dancing so I practiced my “Have some respect for yourself” speech Thursday night and was fully prepared to use it on Friday. However I didn’t have to give my [...]
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Reflections of a Student Teacher: Week 10
Posted in P3: Legal/Ethical responsibilities, tagged dance, relationship on May 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Reflections of a Student Teacher: Week 9
Posted in L1: Learner centered, P1: Professional responsibilities, S2: Standard alignment, T1: Standards-based assessment, T2: Intentionally planned, Uncategorized, tagged expectations, motivation, MSP, poetry on May 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
9 weeks down, 6 official (7.2 unofficial) weeks to go! Last week was a continuation of the week before in terms of student engagement levels. At some points I feel myself starting to think, “Well, I’m not going to care if they don’t care,” which is not what I want to be thinking or feeling. [...]
EDU 6139 Reflection 5
Posted in L1: Learner centered, P1: Professional responsibilities, T2: Intentionally planned, Uncategorized, tagged educational research on May 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This week’s Wong and Wong reading discussed how the effective teacher understands and uses the research process to improve student achievement and student learning. While I agree with what they are saying, I couldn’t help but think about my internship situation and conclude that the Wong’s have a sort of black and white approach to [...]
EDU 6139 Reflection 4
Posted in L1: Learner centered, P1: Professional responsibilities, P2: Professional growth, tagged care, EDU 6139, positive attitude on April 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Wong and Wong discuss how smiling, saying please and thank you, and calling students by name are helpful in letting students know you care about them and in helping form positive attitudes. I wholeheartedly agree with this and am working on following their advice, but am finding it extremely difficult to do with certain students. [...]
Reflections of a Student Teacher: Week 7
Posted in P2: Professional growth, tagged anxiety, philosophy, rexlation on April 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I say this in the best way possible, but I am so glad that week 7 is over. Robin was out Thursday and Friday, which meant Monday through Wednesday were spent stressing out about those two days and Thursday and Friday were spent taking deep breaths. Unfortunately, my mind always seems to go to the [...]
Reflections of a Student Teacher: Week 4
Posted in P2: Professional growth, T1: Standards-based assessment, tagged reading, Teacher's College, test prep, workshop on March 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was fortunate enough to attend two trainings this week with a staff developer from Columbia’s Teacher’s College (TC). I’m not entirely sure how the system works, but I know that because Hamilton has made a commitment to teaching under the Workshop model, TC visits Hamilton around twice a year for training and teachers from [...]
Reflections of a Student Teacher: Week 2
Posted in P2: Professional growth on March 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This week was trying… to say the least. I felt it, Robin (my mentor teacher) felt it, and the students felt it. There was just something in the air that made everyone feel blah. But, we made it through and ended the week on a good note. Thursday was especially trying. Robin was out and [...]
EDU 6363 Weekly Reflection 9
Posted in P1: Professional responsibilities, P2: Professional growth, tagged EDU 6363, education reform, Gates Foundation on March 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s face it; it’s hard to be a teacher today. Not that imparting knowledge to the future leaders of the world was every easy, but today teacher’s work with the students of a different society – students who face more complex and mature issues than ever before. Add to that the pressure of meeting state [...]
EDU 6363 Weekly Reflection 6
Posted in P1: Professional responsibilities, tagged EDU 6363, teachers of literacy on February 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Make learning relevant. Vary your teaching styles. Create a compelling, student-centered curriculum. These are some of critical pieces to becoming a successful teacher that have been stressed throughout my teacher training. While these are all incredibly important, the principle I take most seriously is that all teachers are teachers of reading and literacy. Personally, I [...]
Moral Issues
Posted in P3: Legal/Ethical responsibilities on January 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I believe that as educators we have a professional responsibility to teach our students about what it means to be respectful citizens. This can be done in a myriad of ways and there are on-going debates as to the best way to approach this. Regardless of this fact, it is still our duty. I believe [...]
