Week 4 Reflection

This week was just like the previous week. I am still having trouble comprehending why students do not want to learn. It's hard for me to understand how students are in school and do not care about their education. I had students just put their names on worksheets and turn them in. They didn't care if they were getting a zero. I only have four more days left at FSHS. I really like my placement, but sometimes it's hard for me to see why students do not care about school.

Week 3 Reflection

This week went alright for me. I have taken over all teaching for the entire day at Fairmont Senior High. I teach three periods in a special education setting which are: PLATO, which is a credit recovery program, Applied Geometry, and English 10. I also have three periods of co-teaching. I feel that I am gaining a lot from the co-teaching periods because I have seen a lot of different teaching strategies that the teachers use to instruct the class.
In the periods where I am teaching in the special education room, I am having a hard time. It is starting to get hard for me to want to plan for students that don't care about school and don't want to learn anything. At the beginning of this placement, I was excited about planning lessons to do with the students. Now I am feeling that the planning I am doing is pointless. I hope that things will get better next week.

Week 2

Since this is my second week in my high school placement, I had a lot more responsibility in the classroom. I started off by taking over a geometry period. It is a pull-out class that has six students with special needs in it. I found this to be a little difficult because I am not used to taking over all of the planning of the lessons that I am going to teach. I am grateful for my mentor teacher, Mrs. Earle, because she has helped me out tremendously in my planning with materials and any advice that I could ask for. Also, it was a little difficult because the students that I have in this class do not seem to be motivated to be in school, so it is hard to find activities that they will be interested. One thing that I have learned from teaching this week is having extra activities for students to do when they have completed all of the activities that I have planned for that lesson.

I have also started to take over the co-teach periods that I have. There are a geometry class, conceptual math, and 20/21st Century History. The regular education teachers have helped me out a lot and have accepted me into their classrooms.

Starting next week, I will also be doing an English 10 class. It is also a pull-out class with seven students.

I am enjoying my high school placement and I am also looking forward to start teaching all day.