Week 5 high's and low's

Ending week 5 with an in-service day sounds like a good idea, until you have to sit at the school all day… I always have big plans to get work done, like lesson plans, it just doesn’t work out as great as I think! After spending the first few hours in the library in a faculty meeting, it is almost lunch time and I am too hungry to start any work. Once lunch is over, I can finally start accomplishing work that I need to get done for the upcoming week. Here is how my week went:

The week flew by, I am not sure where it even went! It was productive and I feel that I am improving and doing some good things, but I still have things that I can work on; such as:

1.       Classroom Management- Students seem to be talking more than they should, especially in my first period class that is filled with freshman. During in-service I spent quite a bit of time re-arranging the room and creating a seating chart that will hopefully cut down on some of this talking!

2.       Time Management- I either have too much time at the end of class, or I am rushing 5 minutes of class into the last 30 seconds while trying to review the objectives and tomorrows plans for the coming days.

While keeping those 2 things on the list of things to work on, I thought that I did some things pretty good. Some of those things are:

1.       Shop Classes- I seem to get a good reaction out of my students when we are in the shop. Students are picking up welding in my freshman class pretty quickly and are all behaving well and I have not had any issues… yet.

2.       Stating Objectives: One of the main things that Dr. Rice told me to work on was stating my objectives and making them clear. I have been making sure to state my objectives and let the students know what I expect to have done by the end of class.

I have a lot to work on and I look forward to keep improving my teaching skills and learning from Mr. Webreck. He is teaching me new skills in and out of the shop, every day. I am really enjoying my time here at Bellwood-Antis High School, it has a good sense of “home”.

Thanks,

Mike