EASTER

The most valuable aspect of this week was the ability to teach without my co-operating teachings presence. She was out all week because her daughter had a baby and being able to take over the classes without her being in the room was an awesome experience. I felt as if this is my class, the students were very well behaved and worked very hard all week. For a long time I wanted to teach my classes without my co-op being present and when I was finally able to do this for 3 ½ days was awesome. During one period when I least expecting it the vice principle came in to observe me, I was a little nervous but that would have been worse if I didn’t already know that they were not rehiring my co-ops position after retirement. He wrote me a great review and later we discussed my lesson and what he thought about it, he and I were both very pleased with the outcome.
The one aspect of this week I would change would be to talk to my co-op more about where to go with the classes before she left to stay with her daughter, I would just have liked a little more confidence when creating my lessons to know exactly where she wanted the class to go and if I was on the right track. Overall everything went great and I am very please that I was able to have the experience that I did. I believe that in the future, student teachers should be able to teach a complete week without the cooperating teacher. The experience is great and allows the student teacher to see if he needs to work on classroom management. The chief wishes you a great Easter break.