November 2018

In Class

It is now the end of the semester and student teaching is right around the corner. It is so close and I am becoming very anxious with it being right here and all of the things still to be done. This last little bit of 435 has been focused on wrapping up final projects and getting ready for next semester in our clinicals. I finished the clinical checklist and have been working on my official edTPA lesson that I will be using next semester and an instruction module that I will be able to use then as well.  These are both big projects but they will be preparing me and ease my load a tiny bit when it comes to time to use them in student teaching. I have also been working on finishing up assignments in other classes like another mock task 4 in math methods, scoring example tasks in EDUC 251, and completing a professional learning module in EDUC 312. Everything is coming to a close and getting ready for the next door of student teaching.

Outside:

I have been doing a lot of research on strategies for all of my assignments and every time I create a lesson plan. This is still one of my biggest struggles. I find it so hard to find these when I am searching on the internet. Even though I am still struggling I am still working on it though. Every time I find a strategy I put it on my list that I am building for later use. Some of my professors have also given us resources with strategies that I am so happy for. One of the projects I have been working on, the professional learning module for EDUC 312, required me to build a website where I found and collected a bunch of strategies that are specific to a reading related struggle for students. What made this a little easier for me is that we have a whole textbook for this class that contains strategies all in one place that are specific for different struggles like the one I chose. Standard 2d of the NCTCS calls for teachers to adapt their teaching for the benefit of students with special needs. As you break down the standard farther 2d2 says that a proficient teacher uses research-verified strategies to provide effective learning activities for students with special needs. Well in truth every student has a special individual need and you should do this for all of your students. This is what I am trying to do in these assignments and soon my own classroom.

Future Classroom:

Everything that I am doing in my clinical classroom, and all this lesson planning, as well as the research I have been doing, are all preparing me for my own future classroom. In more ways than one. I feel like I am learning so much at once all culminating at this point that it is hard to list out everything specifically. I am really looking forward to what all I will be learning next semester.