And here I
am…at the mid-way point in my senior year of college. Today was the last day of classes and next
week is finals. I cannot believe how
fast time has gone by. Anyways, with
this milestone reached, it is now time to prep for what is to come! STUDENT TEACHING!!!!! Well, first I want to reflect on my methods
course, and then I want to talk about my student teaching placements.
Methods,
well, was actually a lot of fun! I truly
did learn a lot from this class.
Granted, if I would have received one more R in that class, I would have
probably exploded in pure anguish and defeat!
I do know though that without Dr. Shannon pushing all of us so hard, we
would not be as prepped for teaching as we are.
Let’s see…through methods, I wrote an entire unit, worked on LFS items,
learned about common core, did more observations, and numerous other
things. I now have these items to use
when I am a teacher. Methods was so
helpful, but I don’t know if anything can prep someone for student teaching.
Student
teaching is something that I have been looking forward to ever since I was a
freshman in college. This is the step
right before you become a teacher! All
of the work we have done up to this point has been the theory. Now it is time to put that theory to
work. We started this year by doing, yet
again, observation hours. I had the
pleasure of going to East Penn High School and Central Dauphin Middle
School. I had great placements at both
of those schools and learned a lot working with my cooperating teachers. For student teaching, I will be returning to
Central Dauphin Middle School with my seventh graders and for my high school, I
will be going to Central Dauphin East High School to work with senior
students. I am really looking forward to
both of these placements and hope they will be fun. I think that these two placements fit me
really well, but it still does not calm my nerves any.
Like I
said, I have been super excited to start my student teaching BUT now that it is
here, I am excited and SCARED! I hope
the students will appreciate my teaching style and I hope that my coop teachers
can help me to their fullest! I think it
is going to be fine, and I plan on keeping up this blog (if I can and have
time) during my student teaching. I am
signing off for now to go study for final exams…because now I get to give them
instead of take them after this point! AHH!!!
