12/15/2017 0 Comments Semester 1 at a glance....What have you enjoyed the most? This semester I have enjoyed getting to teach more and experience new teaching methods. Since this is my 2nd year of teaching I am getting more freedom in teaching the students and this semester I have been helping to lead reading groups. I teach the kids sounds and also do games and activities with them. I feel like I am getting more leadership opportunities this year and I am loving getting to do new things. Reading is the subject I teach now along with writing and it is very fun to learn about what to do in that subject since last year I taught math. I am also given more opportunity to do bulletin boards which is helping me to practice for the future. How have you seen yourself grow over the last few months? I am grown tremendously by growing in my teaching. I started the year off a little nervous because i had such a great year before and I was worried to have a new group of kids but I have been able to adapt to changes and feel a lot more confident. I am more aware of my surroundings and how to watch the kids while helping others at the same time. I am able to control a classroom better and discipline in a correct way. What has surprised you the most about teaching? I am super surprised about how technologically savy the students are. I go to help them on the IPad and sometimes they have already fix the problem and show me how to fix it instead. They have so many apps they can use for projects, to take pictures of their work and share it so their parents can see, video tape their voices to match their work, and so on. I am surprised at how much the school classrooms have changed since I have been in elementary school. The different games, technology, equipment, and supplies are so different. I never had a smart board in first grade. My teacher only used the whiteboard which is still used now, but not as much. How do you know your students are learning and applying the information you are teaching them? I can remember when one day I was just not having the best day. I had multiple tests, I was overloaded with homework, and I was SOOOOOOOO tired. I contemplated going to class to see my kids that day but I knew that they would make me feel better. I went to my 1st grade class and one boy immediately went up to me and said, "Ms.Annelise, you are so pretty today." I almost cried right then and there because that little compliment that probably meant nothing to him lifted me up and made me feel so much better. A smile appeared on my face and I felt so grateful for teaching. That is why I do it. Those little moments when the students learn something and show their love for you is what makes me love to teach. How do you know your students are learning and applying the information you are teaching them? I can tell that my students are learning and applying the information I am teaching them because through their work and more time with them I can see them implement the methods and information I give them into their daily work. After teaching them about the cover, title page, and different attributes in a book the next time they came to my table to read they could tell everything I taught them back to me and it proved that they listened and are retaining the information. Have your experiences changed your views on teaching, children, elementary, etc.? When I started in Ready, Set, Teach I had no expectations and didn't know what I was doing. I had no experience teaching in a classroom and I had no experience teaching lessons or about TEKS. Being in the classroom for 2 years now I have a whole new perspective on how a classroom is run and how much preparation and effort goes into teaching students, especially elementary school aged children. I see how much discipline you need to have and the control you need to establish with your students in order to actually learn and teach things. You can have amazing, wonderful students who listen and follow every direction and some who may want to have a power struggle and fight in class. But after 2 years in an elementary school classroom I am now POSITIVE that I want to major in elementary education and teach in an elementary school when I am older. What impact have your students had on you? Oh my goodness where do I even begin? My students these last 2 years have truly impacted me immensely. I have learned patience, compassion, discipline, hard work, perseverance, and more from these students. I have learned how to keep going when things don't work and how to be flexible to knew ideas. I have learned how to control a class and how to build relationships with my students in order to teach them more effectively. These kids have made my student teaching year the absolute best and most rewarding. What impact has your supporting teaching had on you? Teaching has had such a positive impact on me and my life. It is a way that I am able to destress and focus on the positives in my life. I am able to shut out the world and focus on impacting and teaching my students. Teaching has helped to support me in school and has helped me to choose a college and a future profession. What are you looking forward to the most next semester? Next semester I am looking forward to teaching more and getting to be involved in things like field day, their field trip, and more fun days. I am hoping to get more experience in teaching lessons in front of the class and maybe getting to do more bulletin boards. I have made 2 bulletin boards already and have had a lot of fun looking for ideas and advancing in what I do. What is one goal you have for the spring? One goal that I have for the spring is to come up with a station or make a lesson activity that can help the students to understand and learn about a new topic in reading and writing. Some kind of game to interactive activity that can participate in and learn while having fun. What is one reason you really appreciate your supporting teacher? I appreciate Mrs. Miller because she has chosen to take me under her wing and teach me all she knows about teaching and does it without being asked; she volunteered. She has given me soooooooo much knowledge about education and the way to teach your students. Mrs. Miller taught me "“That all children can learn, but we must meet them at the level that they are for them to reach their full potential." I am so grateful to have been assigned to Mrs. Miller and have been able to learn from her from the past 2 years.
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12/1/2017 0 Comments TEKSRight now my class is learning about main idea and details and how they correlate to one another and how the kids can identify them from a story. Above is the TEKS for first grade and it talks specifically about teaching main idea. I usually sit with the students and teach them main idea in small reading groups so the kids can learn how to find it in the easy to read books. My teacher has also done anchor charts with the kids on the carpet so they can learn hands on. My teacher uses handouts like the ones above and puts them in reading stations like "read-to-self" and "listen-to-reading" so the kids can practice finding the main idea and supporting details.
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AuthorI am a Junior this year in the Ready, Set, Teach program at my school learning how to become a future teacher. Archives
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