Yesterday was my last day of student teaching. I honestly will miss my students at Ramapo High School. I will miss all the banter and joking nature they brought. I love being sarcastic with them. I love that I got to joke around and be silly. It's just something I know I will miss. I know a few student in my 8th period will miss me since some proposed to me the day I left. (Gotta love high school boys!!!)
One strength I had in the classroom was my spirit. I have a natural way about teaching. I know how to be flexible and change up an assignment. I know how integrate different techniques and different attributes. I saw that every day with my regents classes. They aren't as skilled as the honors kids. Most of the regents students will probably have to take 10th grade English again. However, I think the regents kids benefitted from my flexible lesson planning.
One weakness in the classroom was my organization. I'm not the most organizational person in the world. I aspire to be organized. I have great intentions about being organized... but I worry that one day, I'll be that teacher with the classroom of papers everywhere and losing student's assignments. I don't want to be that way. I notice when things go crazy in my personal life, it affects my work life... in organization. When I get overwhelmed, it shows. And I don't want that to happen anymore. I just need to figure out how to be less unorganized and more... organized.
Student teaching taught me a lot about myself. I learned that I like it when people like me... and that's not possible for the whole world to like you. I learned that I love being at teacher. I would rather be with students than adults most of the time. I learned that all that work we all have done for the past 4 years (or more) to get this degree... that it will work out in the end. It's all worth the battle.
I hope to look back on this blog and say, "Wow. I grew up so much!" This was definitely a growing experience.
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