So I was not planning on applying for graduation so soon, but I looked at my academic report and everything was good. I just really wanted to get one thing out of the way, so I do not have to worry about it next month since I know I will be busy studying.
I am not sure when I will find out if I am graduating or not. I am sure it will be some time before May since I would graduate that month. I have been trying to figure out if I will be graduating with honors and I can't figure it out. The page it directs me to, to learn more information, does not exists, so I am not sure. It would be nice to graduate with honors, but I am not keeping my hopes up.
Also I finally figured out how to embed Google Docs to wikispaces. We use wikispaces for our portfolios and I had copied and pasted the documents and it looked horrible. So far I have only embed three documents, so I still have a lot more to complete, but just knowing how to do it is a big step.
Semester 7 is over and I only have one semester left until I graduate.
I feel like I learned so much about being a teacher this semester. I got to do so much in the classroom and especially during teach week. This semester was crazy busy especially from November on. I really need this break to regroup and get myself together again before the final semester.
There are 4 important items that I need to do before next semester:
1. Pass Praxis 2
2. Get finger printed
3. Work on portfolio
4. Apply for Graduation
About next semester:
I will be going to my internship five days a week. I will spend 8 weeks with my first mentor teacher and then 8 weeks with my second mentor teacher. I will have one class on Wednesday that will take place after the school day is over. Hopefully I will make it there on time. My professor is the head of ECED Department.
Also our cohort is all split up, so I will have different girls in my class next semester. And from my understanding my new professor, the Head of the ECED Department, will be observing us. Yikes!
Goals:
I had two goals for this semester. To differentiate and use technology in my lessons. I was able to do both this semester in almost all of my lessons. I want to continue doing that in the next semester.
My only goal for next semester is to graduate!
On Friday my voice came back a little more. It was much better compared to the day before. My mentor did make it to the school.
Friday. What can I say about Friday?
It was absolutely crazy.
So much was going on that my mentor did not tell me and I kind of got stressed. As I was giving the spelling test, my mentor has a lady that comes in every Friday and works with the students. I thought it was a whole group things, but no she pulls each student aside and works with them individually.
So random students were getting up and leaving to work with her during the spelling test. Then they could come back and have know idea where we were.
Then during whole group time my mentor had a parent volunteer pulling students out to do something. This was when I was explaining their seatwork that they were going to do. So when it was time for some students seatwork they did not know what to do.
Also before that I completely forgot about the seatwork and did not have anything planned. I felt horrible when my mentor asked me about it. Thankfully we pulled through it and she talked to me latter about what I could do if I was by myself and stuff.
Latter in the day we took the science test, which I graded latter and would need to the grades for my Cycle of Learning. Needless to say the grades were not that great. But it's a learning experience and I am learning for when I have my own classroom.
Finally Cycle of Learning my over. I needed sleep so bad and my body would not let me have it. I kept waking up early throughout the following week.
Lastly, this will be my last post until Dec. 29, so enjoy the holidays and spend time with your loved ones!
I ended up losing my voice on Wednesday and could barely speak above a whisper on Thursday. Which lucky, me I had my cohort professor observing me that day. I felt that it was not good and my voice kept breaking, so I couldn't even talk at some points. Got through it though.
Again I did not stay late at the school on either day because my mentor had to leave early. I took student's papers home to grade those because I also needed grades for my COL (cycle of learning).
And yeah... not much more to say. I was really nervous for Friday because there was a chance my mentor was going to be there. Also it was going to be the day I gave the student's their test to see how well I did on teaching them.
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