Week 13: Affection and Closure Part 2
Wow, I can’t believe that I have
completed 13 weeks of my student teaching. I am finding myself think about how
much I am going to miss my students. Part of me is excited about starting the
next chapter of my life adventure and part of me is scared about the unknown.
This week was a lot different. On
Monday and Tuesday, my cooperating teacher was proctoring the CRT’s so for most
of the day I was by myself. Don’t get me wrong it was a great experience
because I really felt like an actual teacher.
This week, we got a new student. It
gave me an opportunity to refresh the students’ minds on classroom procedures
and rules. Instead, of me going over the rules, I asked students to raise their
hands and share a rule with the student. We taught the students more square dances
for Spring Literacy Night and for a parents’ performance. My cooperating
teacher sent home a letter to the student who is a daily behavior problem
letting the parent’s know that due to her behavior in class she will not be
allowed to participate in the performance.
During our
grade-level meeting this week, we discussed the square dance performance
planning, end of year assessment and they discussed their feelings with the
teacher’s union. I helped my cooperating teacher choose the super citizen of
the month.
On Friday during
prep, my cooperating teacher and I were having a discussion about next week.
Since it is my last full week of teaching she wrote the lesson plans. We also
started to look at items for the dinosaurs unit. This will be a three week unit
that I get to start with the students and get them excited about.
My cooperating
teacher is working on setting up some observations for me in the other
kindergarten classrooms and 1st grade. I am looking forward to these
observations and seeing different teaching styles and getting different ideas
for my very own classroom.
One new thing that
I learned this week was about inventive spelling. Inventive spelling encourages
kindergarten and 1st grade students to sound out words and
phonetically spell out the word by writing the sounds they hear.
I can’t wait to
see what my final weeks bring. I can’t imagine what life is going to be like
without these students in my daily life. There are several students that I have
grown so much and continue to grow and I am so proud of them.
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