2012: A Yr Inwards Review
2012 has been a most eventful twelvemonth for me.
I asked lots of questions. I stepped out of my comfort zone in addition to taught algebra inward Spanish. And, I made my first foldable. It was a life-changing experience.
After 2 weeks of observing, my cooperating instructor handed over the reins to me in addition to took a spot inward the dorsum of the classroom. I'll live honest. It was tough. When a lesson wasn't going well, when the students wouldn't quit talking, when in that location were 10 extra minutes at the terminate of the cast period, it was only upward to me to figure out what to do. And, I didn't e'er brand the correct decision. I almost e'er learned my lesson, though. Lessons learned past times experience volition stick alongside you lot agency to a greater extent than than advice from your professor or a bulk on teaching.
I spent my Spring Break filling out chore applications to almost every unmarried schoolhouse district inside a one-hour radius.
I finished my pupil teaching at the middle schoolhouse level. I'm non fifty-fifty certain if it is possible to choose all that I learned from my middle schoolhouse pupil teaching experience. It was inward that classroom that I started learning to pose aside the educational theories I had been taught in addition to focus on the students that I was standing inward front end of. The students became my focus. It didn't affair how long I had worked on creating a worksheet. If that worksheet was doing a disservice to my students, I had to throw it out in addition to create something novel on the spot. It didn't affair how much I disliked making decisions. My students needed structure. They needed a determination maker. They needed me to create a productive learning environment.
My eighth graders rocked their nation math test. And, this fourth dimension I said a proper goodbye to the students that I had, again, grown in addition to then attached to. My cooperating instructor had the students write me letters that I volition e'er cherish.
I also got to see my classroom for the kickoff time. When the schoolhouse counselor told me it needed a niggling TLC, she wasn't joking.
I sent out a tweet that would modify my life. And, I ended upward connecting alongside an amazing grouping of math teachers from across the US in addition to fifty-fifty the world.
Two days earlier the terminate of the month, I finally flora out that I would live teaching Algebra 1, Algebra 2, in addition to Math Analysis (or College Algebra.)
My entire town was evacuated due to wildfires. The fires came inside 3 tenths of a mile of my house. It was definitely 1 of the scariest experiences of my life. Some of my students in addition to coworkers lost everything they owned inward the fires.
I lesson-planned similar I never had before. I began my kickoff twelvemonth equally a teacher. It definitely had its challenges, but I knew that this was the chore I loved in addition to was meant to do.
I survived my kickoff Student Council State Convention. It was definitely an experience! Having in conclusion been a component of pupil council inward the quaternary grade, I stimulate got a lot to learn.
Several of my students retook their Algebra 1 EOI inward December. In Oklahoma, students stimulate got to move past times their Algebra 1 EOI or an equivalent examination inward gild to graduate. These students stimulate got been taking both Algebra 1 in addition to Geometry this year. I'm excited to study that all of my Algebra 1 students who retook the examination passed! And, quite a few of them scored advanced! I'm in addition to then proud of them in addition to all of the difficult run they pose in. It was a bully experience equally a instructor to see the low-cal bulbs finally acquire off.
I gave my kickoff semester tests. And, nosotros spent the in conclusion few days of the semester making hexaflexagons.
I've spent my Christmas Break alongside family. I helped consummate inventory at my family's business. I've been brainstorming lots of ideas for novel foldables in addition to activities for adjacent semester. I'm reading Making Thinking Visible, in addition to I'm trying to figure out how to choose these ideas in addition to strategies in addition to pose them into house inward my ain classroom. This bulk has shown me that I stimulate got been doing my students a disservice past times non giving them opportunities to think. Thinking is something that only happens when planned for.
January
In January, I started my pupil teaching at a urban high schoolhouse inward Tulsa, Oklahoma. Having been raised inward a rural/suburban area, my kickoff few days of pupil teaching left me inward shock. The cast sizes were large. I was appalled at the linguistic communication used past times the students. My eyes were opened to what poverty looks like.I asked lots of questions. I stepped out of my comfort zone in addition to taught algebra inward Spanish. And, I made my first foldable. It was a life-changing experience.
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| My First Foldable |
February
In February, I experienced my kickoff snowfall solar daytime equally a teacher. I became incredibly attached to the students I was working with. I taught my students nigh scatter plots in addition to correlation using M&M's. I left my kickoff pupil teaching experience without proverb goodbye to my students. That is something I volition belike e'er regret. |
| M&M Scatter Plots |
March
At the really terminate of February, I switched from an urban high schoolhouse to an urban middle school. The differences betwixt the 2 were astounding. During my 2d pupil teaching placement, I was given to a greater extent than liberty in addition to responsibleness than I could ever stimulate got imagined. I was TERRIFIED. I had v classes of eighth degree math students. The eighth degree math examination was fast approaching, in addition to how these students did on this math examination would create upward one's hear how they spent their adjacent 4 years of high school.After 2 weeks of observing, my cooperating instructor handed over the reins to me in addition to took a spot inward the dorsum of the classroom. I'll live honest. It was tough. When a lesson wasn't going well, when the students wouldn't quit talking, when in that location were 10 extra minutes at the terminate of the cast period, it was only upward to me to figure out what to do. And, I didn't e'er brand the correct decision. I almost e'er learned my lesson, though. Lessons learned past times experience volition stick alongside you lot agency to a greater extent than than advice from your professor or a bulk on teaching.
I spent my Spring Break filling out chore applications to almost every unmarried schoolhouse district inside a one-hour radius.
April
In April, I had 2 chore interviews. The kickoff interview was for a middle schoolhouse math position. My 2d chore interview for a high schoolhouse math spot was a whirlwind of an experience that ended alongside me beingness offered a chore on the spot. After thinking it over for a day, I accepted the position. I'm non quite certain I knew what I was getting myself into. From my interview experience in addition to from looking at the school's examination scores, I felt similar the schoolhouse needed me. And, that was plenty to brand me acquire out behind everything familiar in addition to movement to a town where I didn't know a unmarried person, a town that I had never been to earlier the solar daytime of my chore interview, a town without a stoplight.I finished my pupil teaching at the middle schoolhouse level. I'm non fifty-fifty certain if it is possible to choose all that I learned from my middle schoolhouse pupil teaching experience. It was inward that classroom that I started learning to pose aside the educational theories I had been taught in addition to focus on the students that I was standing inward front end of. The students became my focus. It didn't affair how long I had worked on creating a worksheet. If that worksheet was doing a disservice to my students, I had to throw it out in addition to create something novel on the spot. It didn't affair how much I disliked making decisions. My students needed structure. They needed a determination maker. They needed me to create a productive learning environment.
My eighth graders rocked their nation math test. And, this fourth dimension I said a proper goodbye to the students that I had, again, grown in addition to then attached to. My cooperating instructor had the students write me letters that I volition e'er cherish.
May
In May, I donned my cap in addition to gown in addition to walked across the phase at graduation. I moved out of my on-campus apartment, in addition to moved dorsum inward alongside my parents for the summer. I went to my kickoff schoolhouse board coming together where my hiring was officially approved. I worked inward the purpose of my family's business.I also got to see my classroom for the kickoff time. When the schoolhouse counselor told me it needed a niggling TLC, she wasn't joking.
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| Classroom: Before |
June
In June, I flora me a solid to rent inward my novel town. My mother, sister, in addition to I started brainstorming ways to create upward my classroom. And, of course, I worked for my family's business.July
The bulk of July was spent moving into the solid I had rented, fixing upward the solid I had rented, in addition to fixing upward my classroom. My parents in addition to sis were amazing. I definitely couldn't stimulate got done it without them. |
| Classroom: After |
Two days earlier the terminate of the month, I finally flora out that I would live teaching Algebra 1, Algebra 2, in addition to Math Analysis (or College Algebra.)
August
In August, I pose the finishing touches on my classroom. I spent hours scouring twitter, google reader, the web, in addition to pinterest for ideas for my interactive notebooks. |
| Interactive Notebook Foldable |
I lesson-planned similar I never had before. I began my kickoff twelvemonth equally a teacher. It definitely had its challenges, but I knew that this was the chore I loved in addition to was meant to do.
September
In September, I was asked to educate a presentation for our adjacent staff evolution session on hands-on teaching. I was honored, but shocked that they had chosen a first-year instructor to nowadays to the entire high schoolhouse faculty. Students had been talking nigh my teaching strategies, in addition to the verbalize was good.October
Oct brought alongside it my kickoff experience alongside parent instructor conferences equally a teacher. I experienced my kickoff Fall Break inward what seemed similar forever. I really loved my college experience, but I really missed having a few days off inward Oct to rest, relax, in addition to to acquire caught upward on everything. (They did give us a total calendar week off for Thanksgiving to compensate, but it but wasn't the same.) Of course, I ended upward catching a mutual frigidness that spanned my entire Fall Break. My instructor self, though, would rather live sick on suspension than instruct spell I experience miserable.November
In November, my students started working alongside gradient in addition to graphing linear equations. I'm pretty certain that this is my favorite unit of measurement to teach. Slope Dude was a bigger hitting than I could stimulate got ever imagined. Seriously, if you lot instruct gradient in addition to haven't introduced your students to Slope Dude, you lot in addition to your students are missing out. comment nigh how Slope Dude got started. It volition e'er live "Puff Puff Positive" to my students. Some of my students fifty-fifty took it on themselves to demonstrate the youtube video to to a greater extent than or less students who stimulate got the other Algebra 1 teacher.I survived my kickoff Student Council State Convention. It was definitely an experience! Having in conclusion been a component of pupil council inward the quaternary grade, I stimulate got a lot to learn.
December
My students, convinced that the scientific discipline instructor in addition to I should live dating, started writing us both faux beloved letters from the other. They were really quite amusing, particularly since everyone knew precisely who was writing them.
Several of my students retook their Algebra 1 EOI inward December. In Oklahoma, students stimulate got to move past times their Algebra 1 EOI or an equivalent examination inward gild to graduate. These students stimulate got been taking both Algebra 1 in addition to Geometry this year. I'm excited to study that all of my Algebra 1 students who retook the examination passed! And, quite a few of them scored advanced! I'm in addition to then proud of them in addition to all of the difficult run they pose in. It was a bully experience equally a instructor to see the low-cal bulbs finally acquire off.
I gave my kickoff semester tests. And, nosotros spent the in conclusion few days of the semester making hexaflexagons.
I've spent my Christmas Break alongside family. I helped consummate inventory at my family's business. I've been brainstorming lots of ideas for novel foldables in addition to activities for adjacent semester. I'm reading Making Thinking Visible, in addition to I'm trying to figure out how to choose these ideas in addition to strategies in addition to pose them into house inward my ain classroom. This bulk has shown me that I stimulate got been doing my students a disservice past times non giving them opportunities to think. Thinking is something that only happens when planned for.
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