Week 3 Student Teaching

 

Week 3 of Student Teaching 

    This week was even more crazy because of the long weekend and coming into school on Tuesday. This week was crazy with behaviors, following expectations, staff meetings, and meeting new students. I feel like this week was my most stressful so far because I haven't been faced with multiple behavior issues back to back. I enjoyed experiencing it because it helps me when I am a teacher. It helps me understand how I can handle the situations, how I can go about talking to the students, and how I can manage myself after the situation. 

    I learned a lot about how we should lesson plan through a scripted curriculum this week. I started filling out our lesson plan with basic information for the observation on Wednesday. Trying to lesson plan with a scripted curriculum is hard in my opinion because it's a lot of plugging things into a worksheet instead of my own words. It is really interesting to see how some people have to plan for their week with outlines. I am excited to see how I do with writing lesson plans. 

    I still think I am struggling with gaining the students respect in the classroom. I do not want to overstep but today (Friday) things were a lot harder when it came to students listening to my instruction or redirection. Specifically, there was an incident where I was redirecting a table to independently work on their paragraphs. While I was doing so, one of the students pushed back with me and simply stated "isn't this a free country?" I was SHOCKED because I know it's the age group but I never thought I would hear that from a 5TH GRADER?!? I reacted normally and just continued to redirect them to quietly work. Miss Vega had to say something because I guess they were making disrespectful faces at me afterwards. I try to learn something new about each student in each class so I can connect to them. I know right now is the common time to see how far they can go with me. I know it will get better so I do not let it ruin my day. 

    I am excited for next week because I get to start co teaching more with Miss Vega. I know I will start to feel more confident once I am in front of the class more and teaching them. I still am thinking about how I can manage behaviors, disruptions, and distractions in the classroom!