Journal entry 3How do you see your position from being a student to a student teacher? Sometimes it's difficult to not feel like a college student at times, mainly because of the added seminar classwork that always brings me back into my college student mode of being and creating. In the classroom It's always learning how I could have done something better, like instruction, a lesson, being the ruler of reprimanding bad behavior. Now granted, during the times between 8:00 and 4:15 I feel like a student teacher, solely because I’m there in the school with students teaching them. But during planning periods is when I feel most like a student again as my cooperating teacher and I discuss the lesson of the day, talk about class management or something relating to student teaching and learning. How do you shift between teaching and learning in your student teaching? I've tried to combine my time of teaching and learning with my own student, exploring with the idea of parallel creation and play with my students, so below is the pottery project that I've created during the time my students have been working on constructing their own projects. I’ve traveled from table to table during work times, building my own pot, showing students a first hand example that I am creating and they can ask me questions about their projects or my how I did something on my own. I found that it really helps the students that are struggling as they can watch first hand how to create and solve creatively. This also helps me to learn where my students are struggling first hand and downfalls I might have in instruction by me doing it like the students are. How do you make your teacher presence evidently in the classroom? My teaching presence is constantly made known as I either start the daily instruction on what they are doing, or I travel around sitting at each table every class period, discussion either the project with students, answering questions, or making chit chat about what's going on in their other classes, which helps them feel more comfortable either talking to me about projects and associating me as a teacher that does care about them. How different assessments can help you establish your expectations for students? I’ve tried to do different assessments so far with the student that I have, I've done an assessment with them in the form of a warm up, asking how they feel about the current project. An assessment that has been written on a worksheet, compared to another assessment that is done during group discussion and a quick writing activity that the students get engaged with. But for me in the future I would like to maintain the same idea for assessment and checking for understanding across all my grade levels, and from year to year. This will establish during the period of 3 years to ensure that all the students in each grade have a good understanding of what is expected of them during class time. Why the pottery piece: It goes back to the same idea that I stated in journal entry 1, where I was starting to explore with creating while my students are creating. This for me reflects in a way that I can still be a student and maintain the idea and perspective as a teacher to them and myself. Creating projects that the students are doing allows me to see areas they might struggle with, which is a way that teachers look at how well projects are going with their students but allows me to still be creating in that mode of a student college student. This allowed me to get involved with the students as a student teacher while maintaining a sense of being a teacher to them in a joint perspective. My steps and processes that I go through when starting to create utilizing the parallel play with students is thinking about how I will be breaking down the stages for the projects. How you go through as a teacher creating a brand new project you haven’t taught before to a 7th grade class, this in turn allows for better communication of expectations with your students on how it should be created, thought about, and the overall end result should look like. While you as the teacher can break down the project for your students in a way they will understand. My thought process for this breakdown is such; looking at the college level thinking of a student, how we create in studio classes. Then moving into how teachers create projects for students in your school, being able to recognize the types of students that are in the school. And lastly how the students are going to be responsive to the start and creation process of the project all the way to the end result.
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