Third and Last week of Field Experience

What?

This was my last week, and tomorrow-Monday, of field experience. It's been hectic and very exhausting week. I'm not physically tired but I'm mentally tired. As the end of the week came closer and closer, I found myself already missing the studnets that I've been working with for the month of November. I stayed all day on Thursday to go to a movie with them and they were so excited that I stayed to watch it with them. They are all sad that Monday will be my last day with them. I really want to go back and visit them but I'm not sure if I'll have time with my work schedule and school.

So What?

I'm sure that I'll love being a teacher now. I was still up in the air with whether or not I wanted to be a teacher but even after just the first day I knew that I was going to love it! I never thought that I would feel bad when I left at the end of the day and I was sad. I know that it's going to be hard but I'm willing to do it! I honestly can't wait to become a teacher and get to have my own classroom that I can arrange anyway that I want to and put whatever I want on the walls, colorful things. I did notice that our cooperating teacher hardly ever, if ever, does any art projects with the students. I'll want to have them do some sort of art weekly; different kinds of art so that the students who aren't comfortable drawing can realize that art just isn't about drawing.

Now What?

I have realized that our cooperating teacher doesn't do a lot of things with technology or art. I know that when I'm a teacher, I want to have the students do art things and I will want to use technology as much as I can when I can. I'm hoping that whatever school I'll be teaching at will have computers that work in the classrooms and they'll have a projector that's on the ceiling so that it doesn't take up space and everyone can see around it. I did realize during the lessons that I taught that I need to find a way to use more correct terms. The students understood what I was meaning but when getting observed that's one thing that I was told to work on because I may get a student that gets confused with the terms that I use.

Overall, my teaching experience has been great and I have learned a lot. There are many things that I want to use from the teacher I watched and there are many things that I would change. I just hope that for next term I don't get put into a 1st grade class. I'm really not sure if I could handle 1st grade. I've been set on teaching the upper grades and I'm still set on that. Who knows though, I may like the younger grades more than the uppper grades.