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New Year, New Goals
For a New Years resolution I have decided to blog. I mainly want to blog as a way for me to get my thoughts centered in one place. As a second year teacher with high-functioning depression and anxiety it is important to have an outlet. I'm hoping to be able to use this platform on a more regular basis and discuss all things education, life, and anything else that comes my way.
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Learning all about technology for education. Learned about creating apps and videos, visual bookmarking, and classroom management through internet. #iplay15
Oh, we believe it, alright. Been there, done that.
It's depressing how much money teachers spend on their own classrooms.
Reflecting on the end of the week
As I reflect on the second week of school, I am amazed at how often my cooperating teacher implicates multiple instructional strategies in a class block. He consciously tries to implicate at least one visual activity, and one audio activity in each class. Although kinesthetic learning is harder to imply with squirrelly eighth graders, he has had multiple lessons with the students getting out of their seats and interacting with the board, the students, or with artifacts. Each class has a different personality and my cooperating teacher has done a good job in the second week of school determining what the specific class needs from its students. If the class is more energetic, he would change the order of how we would teach the class by starting with a quieter activity and then progress with interactive activities. He does this to allow the students to calm down and focus on the class. Another strategy my cooperating uses during our study hall is to have them be quiet, but during the last ten minutes of class allow the students to talk to each other. I like this technique because it gives students something to look forward to and have a goal. It rewards their good behavior, and I like his use of positive reinforcement.
Greatest motivation for reading an 8th grader has EVER come up with.
The First Week of School
As I begin my second week of school today, I reflect on all of my experiences and emotions from last week. I underestimated what my energy levels would be after one week of school. During the week I did not feel that I was exerting too much energy, seeing as I was not really teaching just observing my cooperating teacher. It is helpful, however, to know how exhausting teaching is just to better prepare myself for the next fifteen weeks. Preparation that involves going to Costco for a big bin of coffee.
Students are always nicer the first week of school, I understand that. But I am liking 8th grade more than I thought I would. Maybe it is the district I am at, maybe it is the educators I am surrounded by, or maybe I had low expectations of middle school ages that they surpass my assumptions. One aspect of my first week that broke my heart was learning about certain students and their backgrounds. Learning about how some students live and what their parents do, or go through was very powerful. These stories make me want to go above and beyond for these students to suceed.
Now that the first week is over, and our classroom's 'get to know the students' activity are turned in, I am excited to start teaching Early American History for the next 7 weeks. Now on to maps and current events.
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