Student Teaching

            This week started off extremely stressful and overwhelming knowing I would be filming for my edTPA. I'm convinced I probably made myself sick over it. Tuesday was the first day of filming and I was struggling to keep my voice. However, I was able to make it through the lesson, and I think it went very well. It was definitely a relief getting through it. One of my senior leaders knew I was extremely nervous, and said he never seen me like that. Luckily, I don't believe my nerves reflected on my video. It's not that I wasn't confident in what I was teaching, it's the process of the edTPA that is really getting to me. Knowing if i fail I'm not only letting myself down, but my family. I feel like as an adult studies student for most of us our family's livelihood is on the line. There is a lot riding on being successful and the pressure is overwhelming.                 I think just the process in general ...

                 It's crazy how fast this journey has gone already. I am already getting sad to leave my current placement and I am finding those anxious feelings flooding back as I think about change moving into my second placement. However, I am feeling better as I feel I am better prepared then I was my first placement, and have developed into a teacher, instead of just an observer which was how I went into my first placement. I think even though I feel nervous to start my new placement in just a few short weeks. My feelings of last week have calmed down a bit and I did what I intended and found more balance this week in other aspects of my life.                    I haven't quite hit the overwhelmed state in terms of the edTPA but I also want to make sure I am perfect when it comes to my video and everything I decide to do for it. I decided I will be filming my lessons next week. I have b...

          After connecting with some of my fellow student teachers I can say that for most of us this has been the longest week yet. I am not sure if it has to do with coming off such a hectic short week last week or if it was just what seemed like a long week. This week just seemed to be eventful and very busy. I think this is the week I really started stressing, and not so much about student teaching because I still really feel like I found my groove. But, as I was looking at the Illinois teaching standards on my educational portfolio I decided to watch my WeVideo that I made while I was in my technology class here at Trinity. In that video I talk about not wishing time away and letting it pass you by, and at the time I just had my one son Connor, and I talk about wanting to enjoy each and every second with him. Now I have two sons Connor is now 3 years old and Donovan is 8 months old. And the reason I started to stress is because again I know there is a bigge...

             This was an interesting week. Monday and Friday we had late starts and Wednesday and Thursday were snow days. We had a weekend within the week. With that being said it definitely through off any sort of routine not only for myself but for my students. You could just tell on Tuesday that their minds were already on the fact that they had two days off. I used Monday as my day to try and be as productive as possible with my Freshman classes and do a peer assessment of all the skills we learned thus far in the Basketball unit. This was also the day I had my second observation, which given the fact that it ended up being a late start and I wasn't able to get through everything that I had planned out due to it being a shorter period than usual I think I adapted the lesson well to ensure our time was used efficiently and the students were still able to complete the peer assessment. Which I was very pleased with it kept the students active and eng...