what i've learned this week:
- it's hard to focus on the content i'm teaching, assess for student understanding, pay attention to how the students are behaving in class and how to react to it all at the same time!
- i need to stop disrespectful behavior immediately and not assume that they know it's not acceptable. this is easier said than done as i tend to be too nice sometimes.
- i need to figure out how to make what i'm teaching more interesting. they're doing well, but i can tell they're leaning towards boredom sometimes.
- i shall continue to work on being flexible.. often lessons don't go exactly as i planned them. in fact, almost every time, i believe.
- i need to begin starting the class exactly the same way everyday so that time isn't wasted with them not knowing what's going on when they arrive. the intention has been to have a one problem quiz/warm up problem at the beginning of every class, but that hadn't always happened in the first few weeks.
- i want to pray specfically for each of my students and for myself before i start teaching each day. not usually in class, just as long as it actually happens. when i've actually done this, it really helps my perspective on them and on my role as a teacher.
- i need to enter the classroom as if it is mine and keep the mindset that i am setting the tone for the classroom environment. this has been hard for me to do for some reasons that i can't define--one may be that i don't actually have my own classroom, and the teacher whose classroom i'm in is always there. i've been glad that she's there though because she has much more experience in classroom management than i do and has offered some helpful advice when i've talked to her about it. i really appreciate that she never actually says anything while i'm teaching though, or while the students are there.
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