Final Post :)!

Last week, I set a goal to increase some network opportunities and to begin to develop my professional letters that which will help me obtain my position. This past week I have been able to network out for more opportunities and have about three opportunities that I will be introduced to. It is amazing to me that I am finalizing these documents and am ready to begin my professional career. This week, I do have an opportunity to get formally evaluated and have a mock interview with my school. This opportunity will help me grow in my professional development especially with the population I serve currently.

As I complete this week, I want to stay focused on how lucky I have been to have had two wonderful placements that have taught me as much as I have learned throughout these sixteen weeks. I wanted to make sure that I have fun and focus on opportunities to reach out to students that I have not had before or interact to make sure my students understand that I am here for them. Today I can not thank God for giving me what I have and the excitement that it brings to my heart for these opportunities. I pray that God will find me a permanent placement in the future and continue to guide me as I teach to students.

 

This past week and over my teaching career, I have had many opportunities where I have had to enforce school policies. This past week out of all my weeks was a difficult one with behavioral situations that occurred in my gymnasium. I had four students who needed some extra support and it became such an issue that the principals have come down to remind me that these things happen and not to get discouraged for these students actions. When situations occur at our school it is my goal to make sure all my students are safe. A situation occurred when another student needed to reset, a place for them to relax and gather their thoughts. The student was eventually removed from class and it is part of the school policy that we must make sure that the student has an opportunity to relax before he is represented back into the classroom. I learned that some students need to actually remove themselves from the class completely and others just need a minute to gather their thoughts.

Another situation occurred where a student struck another student. It was here that I called for extra support and the student and I was able to follow up and continued with some disciplinary actions so that this particular situation would not occur again.

Throughout my time at Mill Street, I have contributed a lot to teaching and learning. I have been able to implement my own personal strategies that I feel are effective as a teacher and learn to make learning motivational for students and fun. I always try to think of new ways to present the information to the students to learn what works best for each class. it is interesting to find that I probably never teach the same way to each class that I see. The content is the same, but how I present it is always changing. I find that certain groups of students respond a lot better to the way I present the information to them.

 

One important thing I have learned this semester about choosing education is that I love what I do. I do it for the students and I love being a role model for the students. I feel that I have a gift and I need to passionally fill my dream to make sure others have opportunities and that able to inspire each individual in their own way. Over the past four years of my life, I have been searching for a reason, and throughout the sixteen weeks I found my reason in life and I hope to pursue this career with this level of motivation for a long time.

TO GOD BE THE GLORY!