Practicum ends tomorrow. While I can't say that I'm super excited to jump from being a teacher back to being student I do feel ready for this experience to be over. Although it feels strange to leave as soon as I'm finally feeling like I have a connection or rapport with most of my huge amount of students, staying longer would make it harder to leave. In my last class with the 7s today a student came up to me, one who only really started acknowledging me today, and put his arm around me and thanked me for teaching him things. I could have cried.
A month has really been the perfect amount of time necessary for this experience. I struggled and improved and perfected and struggled and improved and perfected enough to now be confident that this is something that I can do and do well. This last week my AT hasn't been offering as much feedback. I suppose there is less to comment on. This week has felt less like practice teaching and more like actual teaching. The students have stopped going to Mr. Latter as much with questions, concerns, etc. They are recognizing that I'm teaching them and they are coming to me. They are looking to me to guide them and help them and it feels great.
Tomorrow ends with two grade 8 classes and their presentations of the YouTube spoofs they've worked on. I'm really excited to see them. They have already shown evidence of a high degree of effort, more than I've seen in other scene work. Hopefully the assessment should be easy. I think that my AT is very generous in his marking. Personally I believe it is important to challenge students to meet higher standards. I suppose that if there's one thing I want to learn about the most it would be about assessment and standards and what level of achievement different grades are capable of.
In weeks one and three I commented on Catharine's blog. Week two I commented on Jen's blog. Week four I commented on Sarah Brown's blog.
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