This week has felt like it has been a huge success. I have taken over three full classes: two honors Pre-Calculus classes and one general Pre-Calculus class. I have been creating engaging lessons involving cooperative learning, making foldables out of colorful construction paper to build on notes, and I have created assessments related to what I have been teaching. I am the one who has been planning lessons, assessments, and grading the assessments for my honors Pre-Calculus classes. It feels good to know that students come to me to ask questions about the content or when they have a question about the class. I am getting used to the feeling of being more in control. It has helped me build confidence and become more motivated to strive to be a good math teacher for my students. Within the next couple of weeks, I will be taking over the other two general Pre-Calculus classes. I am nervous that I will be overwhelmed with having to plan different lessons for the courses. Yet, I know that this will help prepare me for when I become the only full time teacher to students. Right now, I know that I have the support of my mentor teachers, so this helps lessen my anxiety towards taking over five Pre-Calculus classes. Each day I am in the school, I learn something new. It is even crazy that I can watch the same lesson being taught to three different classes and learn something new in each one. My content knowledge skills have definitely been strengthened, since I have been observing and teaching. I learn new things about my students and about myself each and everyday. I love to learn and strive to do things in ways that are most beneficial in life, so I know that I have chosen a profession that reflects that outlook. Overall, the past six weeks have been very empowering and encouraging. I know that I will only grow and learn much more as the semester continues. (:
With me everything turns into mathematics.
-Rene Descartes
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