Domain 7 Communication
Funny how I have awaited this day for so long. I feel like I have not even been able to fully process the fact that I am almost done. I cannot believe that it's over; I have tried to stop and think about it, but my mind and heart are still racing 100 miles an hours. It's going to be hard to focus these next 2 days before Thanksgiving; I'm ready for a chance to truly take a break and just be. I hope I get that opportunity this weekend.
Although my lesson plans were pulled off at about 2:30 this morning, I still managed to squeeze out some instruction. I had a discipline issue to take care of this morning (we had to call a mom on Friday to come in today, and the vice principal or mom wanted me in there). I realized through this experience that I should not have waited till the 5th instance of "bullying"/"reacting" to call his mom, and I apologized to her and told her I was still learning too! I didn't even think about it because all along I was just thinking about the importance of keeping track of the behavior, so I could have record and chart consistency.
Again, I also learned that I don't like others to take over my lessons. Because I had to step out, my teacher taught spelling. Although I had written plans out and told her what to do, when I stepped in for a minute and came in to take back over, she was not doing my plans. I understand that she has her own way of doing things, but I was excited about that lesson (like I am of most lessons), and I wanted my students to experience it.
One more thing...it has been hard to be excited about teaching writing because it is so frustrating to work with students on writing. I am learning that I must keep the expectations simple. For example. I told them I need an attention-getter and a wrap up sentence in the intro (that's all I will grade on for that paragraph). Writing just seems like such an overwhelming task, and it takes so much time. Not to mention, you have to help edit over and over.
Tomorrow I am going to plan writing when the Title aide is in there! He's studying English, so I believe that will be super helpful!
Keep plugging away at your work! You can do it!
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Olivia,
ReplyDeleteYou are definitely in the homestretch!! I'm so excited to go through your e-folio. I did get it to upload though my internet is so slow at home. Hopefully I can go through it tomorrow:).
I'll be praying that you can keep focus the next two days. I hope you do take some time for yourself over the break...you deserve it.
Glad to hear you are learning to the end. Take each moment one at a time as you learn and grow.
It was great to see you this evening!!
Prof. Forshey
PS We still need to get together and I'll help you better understand how easy it is to teach writing:)!