I Have Learned Through Teaching - 1477 Words

One of the many things that I have learned through teaching young people is that time goes by a lot faster. In reflecting from my field teaching lessons, I realized that there were many things that I was pleased with, but I also realized that there were many things I know I need to work on. Watching a video of you teach a class is the absolute best way to self-evaluate yourself. We are most critical of ourselves when we can see our work played back to us. This experience has not only been helpful in my teaching methods, but it has helped me to establish a more professional and authoritative essence in the classroom. Before students had even seen the writing assignment, students picked up a half sheet of paper when they walked through the†¦show more content†¦When I began the lesson plan on verbals I had students write freely about a significant incident in their lives in which you were taught a meaningful lesson. Students had complete freedom to write on a topic that had hap pened to them, or someone they knew. When students are given the opportunity to write about their lives, that is when we empower students with their own words. The students were able to choose what incident they wanted to write about from their lived experiences. After my minilesson on verbals I wanted students to incorporate these into their own writing to add action and precise details about their significant incident. During this lesson plan I wanted to keep in mind the one ELL student at field placement. I had gotten to know her very well through interviewing her, and knew from previous conversations that she really struggled to understand grammar. When students were working individually on their writing assignment, I made sure to visit this one student in particular to be sure that she understood the concept fully. This student works very hard, and I know she is doing twice the amount of work as every other student due to the language barrier. Through giving this student extra time to process the new information I was able to then check for understanding when students were working independently. This