Wow! What a final week it has been. Still a few hiccups, but so much great information. My cooperating teacher was very rigorous but in a good way. I really feel that she did a great service to me, kicking my rear in gear! She treated me with as much care and consideration for my success as she does with her smaller students. I am honored to have been able to serve and learn in her classroom.
On Friday she and the students had a farewell party for me during "Fun Friday" they all made me cards and there were lots of hugs and one purple stuffed gorilla given to me as well. I'm looking forward to emailing Ms. S. and her great kids about how things are going in my next placement, and to see how they are coming along. It is hard to leave them, although I will get to see them Monday evening, as they are performing their Greece Rome and Mali presentation at 7 and I wouldn't miss it for the world.
Moving forward, I've met my next teacher, at the next school. This school has little in common with my last one, although oddly, their mascot name is "The Braves" and the school I just left is as well. hmm. The room number of the new placement is 126, my last...326. Okay that's a little coincidental.
Ms. B, the new teacher, is very affable. She has plenty of experience to share, and has told me that she welcomes my creativity and tech savvy. The school is older, and though she has 3 desktops and a laptop in the room, There is no room mounted projector and the monitor in the room doesn't work with the computer thought it is supposed to. (I'll be checking into that for sure.)
The school does have Smartboards and cows that can be checked out and I will be availing myself of them I'm sure. I also plan to assemble a portable technology ensemble that I can go back and forth with. A friend in the networking biz. has offered to loan me an old underused projector, and I have several good movie screens and that's a start!
It will be interesting, I have been really fortunate in my career thus far, in that the places I have spent the most time in have all been team work oriented. Mrs. B says that isn't so at her school. Disappointing, but what can you do? Mrs. B and I will be a team and that will be fine.
Until later.
David
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Nearing the end of stage 1
It is amazing to realize that I've only been student teaching in Ms. S's class for eight weeks next Friday. It seems like a year! Though I got off to a rocky start, things have worked out pretty well. I know that I still have a lot to learn, but as my advisor and Ms. S have said, when I go to the next placement, I will know exactly what to work on.
I hate leaving students midstream like this because it's disruptive to them and they will have to re-adjust to a different room dynamic, but it's the nature of the beast I suppose. I hope to be able to send an email every once in a while and hopefuly get a response. I will be going back in two Fridays to see the 3rd grade presentation of the Greece, Rome and Mali performance they are doing. Ms. S. invited me to come back and I definitely want to be there to support the kids.
I'm having a little trepidation because I don't have any idea what rescources will be available in the next school. All of my teaching thus far has been in Va Beach, so it will be interesting to see how things are done in Chesapeake.
Until later ......
I hate leaving students midstream like this because it's disruptive to them and they will have to re-adjust to a different room dynamic, but it's the nature of the beast I suppose. I hope to be able to send an email every once in a while and hopefuly get a response. I will be going back in two Fridays to see the 3rd grade presentation of the Greece, Rome and Mali performance they are doing. Ms. S. invited me to come back and I definitely want to be there to support the kids.
I'm having a little trepidation because I don't have any idea what rescources will be available in the next school. All of my teaching thus far has been in Va Beach, so it will be interesting to see how things are done in Chesapeake.
Until later ......
Friday, October 3, 2008
Sleep.... Must.......get.....slzzzzzzzzzzzzz oh my posting!
Wow!
What a whirlwind-treadmill-sleep deprived couple of weeks WHEW!!!!
This was my third week of rubber to the road teaching for me and I have learned many things about myself and about teaching. About me I have learned that I can not infact create a new lesson for every topic every day every week. Instead sometimes I must rely on others (colleuges in the school, or other resources like websites) to provide the actuall stuff I will use to teach the curriculum. I got it! there are not enough hours in a week to do it all.
Instead, next week I am making a couple of whiz bang lessons and looking for other effective high quality ones on edhelper.com, enchanted learning.com (which I'm notmthat enchanted with frankly) and others. This will allow me to get some sleep!
_David
What a whirlwind-treadmill-sleep deprived couple of weeks WHEW!!!!
This was my third week of rubber to the road teaching for me and I have learned many things about myself and about teaching. About me I have learned that I can not infact create a new lesson for every topic every day every week. Instead sometimes I must rely on others (colleuges in the school, or other resources like websites) to provide the actuall stuff I will use to teach the curriculum. I got it! there are not enough hours in a week to do it all.
Instead, next week I am making a couple of whiz bang lessons and looking for other effective high quality ones on edhelper.com, enchanted learning.com (which I'm notmthat enchanted with frankly) and others. This will allow me to get some sleep!
_David
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