
I have been lucky in the past couple of years; I have been able to have a lot of experiences with children. When I came to college I got a job at a child development center. I have been working with children from the ages of three to six for the past four years. During two of the summers there I was able to take over a classroom of three year olds and become the lead teacher for the whole summers. We were able to work on writing names, letters and numbers, and developing motor skills. Then, for one of the summers I was able to be a lead summer camp teachers for five and six years olds going into Kindergarten. I have also been tutoring students in the fourth and fifth grade in math for the past year. From the experiences that I have had I have been able to be exposed to teaching many different age groups the past couple of years.

In this internship I expect to keep on learning how to better manage a classroom, I think that this is going to be one of the hardest things when I am a teacher so I want to learn as many strategies as I can now. I will be keeping an eye out for different teaching techniques that I have not seen before. This way I will be able to remember then for when I have my own classroom, I will be able to see if they work in the classroom that I have. I hope that I have a supervising teacher that is very helpful and that will let me be hands on with the students, my fear is that I have a teacher and that will not let me be active in the classroom. One other thing that I fear is that when I get up to teach some of the students will not listen and they will be disrespectful. I think that if I have good classroom management I will be fine.
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What I want in my classroom. |
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What I do not want in my classroom. |
From all of the teachers that I have had in my life, a lot of my science teachers stick out as being good teachers. They were the teachers that always had us doing something. They were either demonstrating things or letting us make something or doing things to demonstrate what we were learning. They were also always willing to listen to questions that the students had and made sure that they explained it in different ways so the students could understand what was being talked about. They were the classes that we learned about the stars, made rockets, boats and egg car. These teachers seemed to be happy teachers that were willing to help.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
~William Arthur Ward