Week Fifteen

Aspects of the week I found most valuable:

This week was very valuable for my professional growth. I was able to teach Wednesday and Thursday without my co-op. She had too leave early Wednesday due to her daughter being sick and Thursday she was away. This gave me the opportunity to face the challenges all teachers face everyday. I enjoyed the challenges and feel as if I am prepared to have my own classroom. I was also able to relax a little this week considering I had finished all my lesson plans for the upcoming week early. I was able to catch up on some much needed sleep.

If given the opportunity to start the week over I would:

After my co-op left on Wednesday I was unable to use her computer because she forgot to log me on. This forced me to have to think on my feet and demonstrate materials differently. Overall my demonstrations went well however, if I could start the week over I would have demonstrated one thing the students were doing by having them complete the task while I talked them through it. I did this later in the day with my sixth period Computer Applications class and it worked well. Sometimes it is nice to have to think on our feet, in my case a good lesson was learned.

Hope you all had a great week. Three days left! : )