1 post tagged “evaluation”

Well, the summer has come to a close.  I have had a long and satisfying day, a day in which I felt like I had so much more purpose, so much more vision for the year to come.  Going to my school yesterday and setting my classroom in place gave me so much more of a tangible thing to think about.  We've been talking all summer about "your classroom in the fall."  Now I have an actual classroom to put to that vague statement. 

I will talk more about my classroom in my freewrite blog that I have coming up, but right now I am struggling not to spin off on tangential thoughts.  I suppose the best thing to do would be to label these things good and bad and explain them. 

The Good: 

I loved getting teaching experience in.  I feel like I've missed out on so much that so many other people haven't missed out on because they have taught in one forum or another.  I think it went fast, though, my transition from Kate to Ms. Jarvis.  I like this Miss. Jarvis character, but she's not someone I would ever have become without it being necessary.  I appreciate that MTC pushed me quickly into that necessity and helped me to find my inner teacher.

The older teachers, second-years and TEAM, were all very very helpful  They seemed to genuinely want me to succeed, and to be interested in helping me as much as possible with anything they could help me with.

The group is great.  I'm so glad that I am in this program. I feel like we all have such similar experiences in the program that even though we all come from different backgrounds and cultures and regions of the country we are really close.  There is nobody in the group that I do not like.  After having been in groups like this one my entire life, I really appreciate the lack of cliqueiness and snipeyness.

The Bad: 

Everyone's thinking it.  But I'm going to say it.  I really dislike the del.ici.ous posts.  I would love to have it just if I happened to be on the online and I find a really good article that I want to share.  That's a really good way to use it, and that's a great idea.  But for the required posts, I just find myself going to education.com and skimming articles to post, because I have to post something.  I don't feel that I really read or enjoy anything and I feel like it's one more stressful thing to add to an already stressful schedule.

The Ugly: