University of Puerto Rico – Humacao English Department
Luis R. Torres Cotto Prof. Nilsa Lugo EDPE 4018 – 001 Weekly Reflection #4 8-12 of September, 2014 The toughest week of my life as a practice teacher award goes to this fourth week. This week I was challenged to do my 110%. Although it was difficult, I was able to start giving my courses. On Monday was my first day, I was a nervous wreck and started perspirating a lot. My students and my cooperating teacher noticed quickly. I believed I had a decent start in the class aspect, on the classroom management however it wasn't the same. The students did what I told in class but deep down they did what they wanted becoming unsubordinated. The worst part was the snack time, students talked a lot and stood up and walked around the classroom. On Tuesday, thing were better as I modified some of my mistakes from last class. This day I brought a puppet and created a good environment for learning. On the other hand snack time still had some troubles. On Wednesday I didn't have class and stay at Mrs. Gina Hernandez class. Thursday was a bit of challenge, this day I needed to review a lot of class and began working their work. I consider to have improved a lot in class but still need more practice. On Friday I was observed. This time around we continued last class work of paragraph writing and the students didn't cooperate. Most of the students did their work but struggle a lot in something they know. A couple of students refused to work at all which caused me stress. This final day was really hard because I didn't met a good evaluation.
University of Puerto Rico – Humacao English Department This experiences brought a lot of feelings, sadness, frustration and consider quitting. I do not complain about my evaluation, I just starting to believe I am not cut out to be a teacher. I have a lot of things to work with yet and not enough time. Everyday has plenty of challenges full of learning but very frustrating. Sometimes we questioned ourselves or even our students. In the end, we need to keep trying this is what practice is for. For the future, I need to apply all this experiences in the most positive way possible. I am learning constantly about what to improve and try and do better. I have found myself to have already improve in error I was signaled before. I am raising my tone of voice, demanding better behavior on their part and on how to get the learning across. The workload is a lot but its preparing me as a future teacher into doing things properly. I am considering and almost certain of not continuing my teacher career, but I will receive all the knowledge and lesson to improve as a person. Everything we learn can be applied to our lives and with that though I leave this week behind and embrace the new challenges ahead.