Two Week

My practicum was awesome both mentor teachers were really helpful. Especially my PE sponsor Ms. Johnson. She had alot of really good connections with here students through teaching not only pe but AVID and music appreciation as well as health and career classes. She was an awesome role model for modeling report with students and interacting with them. My science sponsor Mr. Turner was a great guy to talk and bounce ideas off of as well although his teaching style was one i probably wont apply in my teaching. I found the kids in his class were not engaged in the material during class. When i did teach his grade 8 classes a lab they were immediately more engaged so i started to think of ways to engage them more in a lecture style format without having alot of boredom and one class of fun with a lab every few weeks. This could be mini demos every class or videos and other things for them to see that related to the material on a daily basis. Ill also take away the importance of being flexible when teaching and staying one step ahead of students. IF you act like everything is going to plan they will believe that it is.