One of my learning goals for this semester was to become better, or more detailed, at writing my lesson plans. I chose to focus on this learning goal because last semester my mentor teacher had a lot of input for my previously written lesson plans. She provided me with great ideas and guidance when writing lesson plans and I wanted to take her suggestions and make them my own. So far this semester, I believe I have made significant progress. I spend a lot more time with the writing of my lesson plans and my new mentor teacher seems to be pleased. I also take more time when revising my lesson plans, which I find to be very beneficial!
Reviewing my practica plan allows me to stay focused and achieve goals that I have set for myself. I have actually already accomplished a few of my learning goals and several of my activities. Now that I am spending more time in the classroom actually teaching, I have thought of a couple more learning goals to add to my list. For example, I want to be more comfortable with implementing sponge activities for the students. This classroom has a lot of independent work time and I would love to allow my students to participate in some fun learning activities.
To evaluate my own progress in completing activities on my pratica plan, I would have to say that I am doing very well. This practica plan allows me to be organized and to know when assignments are due. I can implement my learning goals into my teaching at my own pace, which I find to be very stress relieving. I am very glad the practica plan was assigned to us this semester because I believe it is beneficial to us, as students, and our mentor teachers.
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I agree, the Practicum Plan definitely forced us to take a step back and assess our practices both as a teacher and as a student. It seems like you are making some great progress in regards to your lesson plan development. It's good that you were aware of what you needed to fix and that you are now taking the necessary steps to do better. Having your mentor teachers input is always a nice thing do have and it seems to have been very helpful to you!
ReplyDeleteI also really like your idea to work on implementing some time sponge activities in your classroom. I never thought of that. At times some of my students finish their work before other students and don't have anything productive or meaningful to do. Having these types of experiences available to them can really help with classroom management and student learning. While I think it may be too late to include it on my Practicum Plan it's definitely something I'd like to start putting into use in my 5th grade class. This could be especially helpful during my two weeks of full time teaching!
Keep up the good work!!