My First Week

Heading into that first day I think i was just as excited as i was nervous. I found out fast how observant students are and how much they hear when your talking. Being able to observe my co-operating teacher and view her style of teaching was helpful. Learning to understand what she expects out of her class and how she connects to the students. Start to understand the material that the classes will be covering. Being able to interact with the students and learn their names. It will help me connect to the students better be knowing them by name. I have already made connections with a few of the students in these classes, my co-op noticed the same and hopes I am able to convince a couple of them to work harder. Also, walking around the school and meeting the administration was very valuable, it shows them that I am sociable and ready to get to work.

I would modify a couple aspects over the past week, mostly learning the students names a little faster, by at least Wednesday. Its Friday now and I know almost all of their names. I know I am very bad at remembering names of people, I don't even know all the names of the students in my clinical studies class. Another aspect to change would be to complete the project that the students had been doing. This would help me understand the difficulty of the project, the time it consumed, and what problems would arise so i could help them more along the way.