Final Practicum Plan

          Well before I knew it the semester came to a quick end. I still can not believe how fast this semester has gone by but I feel like I have achieved so much in my classroom and that I have really improved and grown as a future teacher. I wanted to reflect on the practicum plan and all of my goals that I had set from the beginning of the semester. My first goal was, #1 “ To really take charge in my lessons and come up with really good effective and engaging lessons that my students will really benefit from”. And I felt like I was the most successful at this and really followed out with my goal. It started to become really natural and the lessons I would plan were very creative and well thought through. I really enjoyed having the chance to create my own lessons and my mentor teacher would only give me the topic of what they were doing and trusted me to come up with great lessons. That made me feel like a responsible teacher because I put a lot of time and effort into my lessons and out of all the assignments we had to do lesson plans were my absolute favorite! So I can definitely say that I have conquered that goal beyond my expectations and I am really proud of how easy great lessons come to my mind. The students would benefit from my lessons and they would know that if it was Thursday that I would be teaching a lesson and they would ask me every single time in the morning or I would hear them say to each other, “Yes, Miss Conway teachers us a lesson today”! That made me feel really in charge and I always had positive feedback from my teacher.
        With my second goal, “ Have good communication with my mentor teacher”. I felt like that went really well too because my mentor teacher and I really bonded and could teach together. She was comfortable with having me do big tasks for her or help the students or take over a station. We did get to talk about stuff but I quickly learned how busy she was before school and in her planning period so I did not want to bug her most of the time about questions on the rubric or anything. We still had great communication and if either of us needed something we could talk about it. For my third goal, “Get familiar with my new PDS, Johnson Elementary” I felt that I was able to accomplish that through the wiki project. I learned about my school and the faculty. I even got to interview the principal and vice principal which was great. And for my forth and fifth goal, “Work with students one on one” and “Learn more about the my mentor teachers teaching style”, those came natural and I found myself doing that every day I was there. I was constantly helping and tutoring my kids and they were always comfortable with coming to me with their questions. And I learned a lot from my mentor teacher and took little things and ideas from her all of the time! I learned so much from this semester and everything became very natural and I set more personal goals besides the practicum plan for myself and reached them every time. I feel like I conquered all of my goals and am a step closer to knowing exactly how I want to run my own classroom and actually getting the chance to!

Midterm Evaluation of my Practicum Plan

    It is already midterm and I felt like this semester has flew by! However even though it is midterm I have been following all of my goals from my practicum plan. Since we had to do this project it was helpful for me to be organized and have a set routine figured out from the first time I met with my mentor teacher. I talked to her the first day about everything I wanted to do and the goals I wanted to reach. I showed her all of my lessons and when I had to do them by so we have that all figured out. I told her how I would like to set time aside to talk with her everyday and go over everything. She she that when I get there before the students get there we can discuss or during her planning period but that in reality she won’t be able to sit and chat every time I am there. Which was perfectly fine and we came to an agreement that if I ever needed to go over anything or ask her anything that I can bring it up to her during those times. That is working out well and we get a lot of opportunities to talk. For my goal of Get familiar with my new PDS, Johnson Elementary  I am planning on participating in that for the wiki assignment and I would like to interview the Principal. Since out midterms are kind of early I have not gotten the chance to talk to her about creating things for certain students who need extra help. And for my other learning goal that is, Learn more about the my mentor teachers teaching style, I am observing everyday and can not wait to learn and see more because I really like her classroom management!