- Learn each students’ name.
- Make a connection with each while teaching, discussing hobbies, etc.
- Learn how to have a good control in class while promoting cooperative learning.
- Soak in as much information from cooperating teacher and supervisor during experience.
- Make learning fun and exciting for each class
The other part of this assignment is to explain a meaningful experience that happened while student teaching. There were so many different ones with different personalities its hard to pick one. The one that I am going to describe is one that I felt helped me as an educator be more engaging.
This experience was a bittersweet one. It was my first class of the day. I had a student with their cell phone out in class so I told him to give it to me and he replied with a not so nice profanity followed by no. Obviously I sent him to the office and then continued on with teaching. As we were doing our assignment the class was very uneasy, talkative, disruptive, and unsettling. I could feel my patience on the edge and I finally raised my voice and made them work quietly alone for the rest of the hour. This worked relatively well, but the meaningfulness came in the next class. As I began and had a minor disruption I didn't realize it but one of the students made a whimsical comment of "why are you so crabby?" I didn't pay any attention to it at first, then while they were working I thought about it and realized that I had let that first class of the day affect my next class when they hadn't done anything wrong. This was profound to me, and I have been really trying hard not to let previous classes ruin my mood and or level of cheerfulness. This pleases the students and me too, a win win situation.
