Today we were able to hear first hand from someone that
student taught within this last year. I believe that I learned a great deal
from him. The biggest thing his
presentation reminded me was to take advantage of the experience. This will be
the last time I will get help before my own classroom. With that it is
important to get all of the advice I can get.
With that I learned that sometime your cooperating teacher
might not be as good at giving you the feedback you would like. He discussed
how he had a difficult time with one of his teachers. He said that he really
had to ask him to get any sort of feedback what so ever. As, someone that can be reserved I
think it is important for me to realize as well that it doesn’t hurt to ask him
or her for advice. They might not be saying it out loud but maybe they do have
something to say. Also have your cooperating teacher help you take care of
classroom management issues. Let them stand by as you take control of a
situation. Do to liability issues it is important for them to be there thought.
The other thing that came to my attention while he was
student teaching was lesson plans. He implied that he spent a lot of time
working on lesson plans and therefore had many late nights. I don’t doubt that
this will happen either way but it made me realize that I should probably put
together some sort of binder or something of lesson plans that I can take from
in the future. One is going to need a lot of them for many different grade
levels. I think my sleep is important to me so working ahead of the game with a
lot more lesson plans then I currently have would be a really good idea.
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