My first tweet for the week was, "It's truly amazing when a student has the "ah ha" moment in a one on one session, that's what makes teaching the most gratifying." The student had been feeling behind in class and we pulled up together after the completion of the lesson and while going through the concepts that they were not understanding it was like the light bulb seemed to come on. They then told me they understood and that made me feel worth while in what I am planning on doing. The tweet the following day was, "I found out the new meaning to trig ratios.....sohcahtoa....bright minds are a great thing." While teaching trigonometric ratios to my classes one student brought to my attention and acronym that they thought that be would helpful in remembering the trig ratios and what they consisted of. In listening to their idea it seemed quite brilliant to say the least and I asked if I could share it with the rest of the classes and they said yes. Midweek my tweet read, "A student came today for tutorials and once we completed them they personally thanked me....its great to be a teacher." At CFC we do tutorials every morning and after school and for a student to get what they need from the tutorials and then personally thank the teacher, its the smallest of things that make teaching what it is. Thursday and Friday I did not have any tweets due to CFC benchmark testing.
This week's assignment made my student teaching experience even better than I could of dreamed it to be. It has showed me how much I have grown individually since the beginning of this journey. Most of the time I am my own worst critic and that is hard to overlook sometimes and focus strictly on the positives but that will all come with time. I am hoping that in the following EOSL observations that I continue to grow individually as a teacher and a positive role model for all my students.
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