Intern Teaching #4

Throughout my time here at Bruceton School, I have learned many things about myself so far. I feel as though, now students respect me as their teacher and also like having me as their teacher. The evidence I have to prove this comes from last week. It was a short week due to "Buckwheat Festival" in Preston County. Students were actually only in school Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of last week. Due to these festivities, my mentor teacher in Math cause taking a personal day for Wednesday. He asked me if I felt comfortable teaching the entire day. After talking with him, I realized that I wanted to try it. I felt confident in myself to teach for the entire day and I also thought the students would like it as well. He instructed me that I would have a mentor teacher in the room but she would only help if needed. Knowing this, I felt a little added pressure. Another thing that made me nervous was working with the 7th grade students in the afternoon class that I hadn't previously worked with. This was nerve wrecking to me because I didn't know any of their names and I didn't want them to think they could take advantage of me during the class period since I was not their normal teacher. Not only did my day go really well, I think all the students in the afternoon classes had a good time listening to me and I made it fun for them. I was worried for nothing. After teaching for the entire day, I also felt like the day went by very quickly because I moved from one subject to the next and had little down time. After the day I had, I felt much more confident in my abilities as a teacher and I can't wait to start teaching on my own in the upcoming weeks!