This is the last day of my last week of full time teaching and as sad as I am that I won't get to spend as much time teaching the children, I am relieved that I will no longer have to deal with the stresses of classroom management. I will admit, if I have learned anything through this fulltime teaching experience, it's classroom management. I still don't have the control I'd like to have, but I have greatly improved since my first week. I realized, pretty slowly actually, that it takes a little bit of 'teacher firmness' or "turning on your crank box" as my mom (who teaches 2nd grade) calls it, in order to keep control. At first, I was a little too soft for this group of students and it was difficult to "crank up" my firmness, but as I did the behavior improved. I still am pretty soft with the students, but I think I have gotten better!
I have finished my action research and I am excited to begin the data analysis process. I was a little bit stressed out about it, until I met with Sharon (thanks for the lovely breakfast). She really helped me get started with the process and helped me see that the data I have is good enough and it does tell me something! It's hard to believe that there are only a few more weeks left of my student teaching semester. It seems like it was just a week ago I was e-mailing Ms. Karr about when I needed to report to Watson. I have really felt like I was a part of this school and I will be sad when this experience is over. However, I won't miss not having any walls! :-)
P.S. We got a new student today and I look forward to getting to know him.
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