A Week of Ups and Downs

The Journey of Student Teaching: Day 40


Weekly Reflection: How weeks are filled with ups and downs


Essential Question for this week:

  • What is something you learned about this week?



Trying to get into the flow of teaching is like sailing on the sea. There will be ups and downs.  Some days are going to go really good, while other days are going to go poorly.  Being a student teacher is learning how to address those ups and downs as you go.  The hard part I have found about student teaching is how to remind myself that I am a good teacher and not let a single bad lesson chop up the seas for the rest of the day.

Though I have been at this for a while now my biggest challenge is my students voicing that a lesson is bad. Instead of them saying anything I have found that more often than not my students prefer to simply tap out and quit learning.  I have found it tough then to get the students to voice their concerns with me or their confusion.  So naturally I don't fully realize that a lesson is bad until suddenly the lesson is bad.

It hit me pretty hard this past Friday when I tried my best to teach the students in animal science.  They were frustrated but instead of them voicing their concerns to me they instead all shut down.  That is when I realized too late that it was a bad lesson.  Walking to my vehicle that day I knew I would have to reteach the lesson.  I hope that with this coming week I can feel better on accomplishing next weeks goals of being a successful teacher.

To Be Continued . . . 

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  1. Tiffany MoreyMarch 12, 2018 at 4:57 PM

    George, ups and downs are part of being a teacher, and sometimes you have to repeat your steps/a lesson to transform a low point into a high one of success. Learning to recognize when a learning activity is taking a turn towards a low and the signs of student disengagement are a critical part of the teaching process. What changes are you going to take to make your animal science lesson a success the second time around?

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