November 16th!

Student Intern: Barbara Edwards Week Ending:

Placement: First Grade Clinical Teacher(s): Mrs. Hallmets

If you did not teach a full load this week, please indicate which subjects you taught.

1. The main discoveries that I made from teaching this week are:

This week so far has been a busy week. We had our plc day on wednesday and early release. We talked about the new writing for this month. We are focusing on how to papers. The children today seemed to understand and enjoy how to writing. The children also noticed that it is harder to write out the steps rather then just doing them. We got a new student last week from pinehurst she is very behind in all subjects and I have set time aside to help her on her reading skills.

2. When I think about being a teacher, I am concerned about: I am still focusing on time management as well as:

* I am getting more nervous as the days pass and I am getting closer to graduation. I feel like I am ready but at the same time I am concerned about having my own class and facing the parents and everything that comes along with teaching. Its stressful.I am excited but still scared.

3. I feel...

* I feel like I am still improving. I learn so many things each week. I loved this weeks meetings and PLC. They actually taught us how to teach how to lessons. The plc meetings were hands on and gave us many resources. We also had meetings on the new teacher evaluation process which was exciting because we talked about this already in the classroom.

4. Questions I have after working this week are:

* This week I am actually ok with questions. I am still worried about how many weeks I have had a full load. It bothers me that I am getting penalized bc kelly wasn't ready at the time to give up the literacy block.

5. I rate my experience this week as:

Inadequate Marginal Excellent

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6. Other reactions:

* This week we still continued rocks. The children are still fascinated with studying the different types of rocks.

7. After discussing this week with my clinical teacher(s), next week I will focus on:

Guided Reading groups. My higher readers are starting to become lazy. I have actually dropped them down a couple levels because they could not have discussions with me about what they were reading. Now they feel like it is to easy but I want them to comprehend what they are reading before moving up any more levels.