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Posted by Stacy on Monday, April 28, 2008 8:09 PM

My senior year has finally arrived. I am only two semesters away from becoming a full fledged teacher. I just can't believe that I am going to be a teacher. I feel like I have enough content knowledge and I am a pretty mature person, but it's just an iconic type of title in my mind. All the teachers I had either made me feel like I never wanted to in school ever again, or they made me feel like wanted to stay in school forever. The latter is where I got my inspiration to become a teacher. It was these kinds of teachers that I think of every day when I imagine what teaching my classes will be like. This semester I will get to see how real those visions really are, or at least how easy it is in reality. In the first half of my senior year I will be completing my internship at Bow Elementary School in Detroit, MI. Here I will be assigned a class and two days each week I will be in charge of teaching these kids for two hours each day. I have already met the teachers and taken walk through the school to see which one I wanted to apply for. I knew from seeing this one and the students there, that this was just the kind of place I wanted to teach in. I still have about two months until the experience begins, but I am really now starting to get ready. They have already given me my lesson assignments and I have started writing up the lesson plans for my first month. I will be there for a total of five months and I really want to have all of my lessons planned out before I ever walk in to a classroom so I can focus on learning the skills required to teach. With my lesson plans, I will carry with me my education psychology notes just in case. It is the skills that I have taken from this class that will be the real key to my success.