This week I continued full time teaching, making it my 2nd
week. What I have found these past few weeks is that there is literally no time
during the day to get anything done! I reached for my teacher notebook to look
at notes I had taken about this week and was surprised to find that I didn’t
have any! Full time teaching has forced me to make mental notes about things I
have seen and hope that in between class periods if I am not making copies of
something or preparing for the next group of kids to come in…there is no time
to take notes!!! Even though I arrive at school earlier than I am suppose to,
prepare at home, and use every free moment at school to review lessons and see
what changes I can make, there never seems to be enough time!
On a more positive note, my mentor teacher and I decided we
would tackle our 3rd period collaborative math class together. It is
a collaborative class after all. So, my mentor teacher, the SPED teacher, and
myself all teach this class together and switch off between example problems
and walking around the room to help various students. This has seemed to work
the best! It has also given the SPED teacher an opportunity to see how my
mentor teacher and her collaborative teacher did things last year…she is used
to more one on one resource room teaching. I have to admit collaborative teaching is something I really
enjoy and would like to learn more about and get involved with when I become a
teacher in the future. I think this really helps the students because sometimes
other people are able to explain material in a different way that different
students will understand better.
My English class is still moving forward with their novel
Walk Two Moons. My mentor teacher gave me some suggestions with this class and
their tendencies to ask many questions that really do not need to be asked.
During one lesson, we were checking a paper that could have more than one
answer. As soon as we were done reviewing there were about 8 hands in the air.
I asked them if they had a question about whether their answer was right or
wrong, than they needed to put their hand down. And ALL the hands went down! I
don’t think this was to harsh because I had spent 5 plus minutes explaining to
them that their answers may be very different than others and that was ok. My
mentor teacher also suggested that when their questioning gets to out of hand,
to tell them if they have a question, write it down and come to me after class.
This helps save time during instruction.
We took our students to the “safe place” this week also.
This is a place the school is suppose to me incase the building is not safe. My
mentor teacher has to carry a bag with parent numbers, emergency contacts and a
lot more. This definitely opened my eyes and made me think that when I am a real
teacher, I will be in charge of 25 lives at all times and it is my job to make
sure these students know what to do and that I know what to do in case of an
emergency. It is very scary and overwhelming knowing that soon I will be the
one in charge.
As I being my 3rd week of full time teaching I am
expecting on being exhausted, but I am also expecting on learning a lot and
taking in as much as I can about middle school.
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