Field Placement (continued)

Yesterday, I went back to Minerva Middle School and even more awesome-er things happened. Mrs. Dowell gave me 3 folders full of resources such as useful websites, first day of school sheets, contact information sheets, and lots more! This is my first experience with a teacher who seems to want to help me in becoming a teacher. When I think about how much time I spend in my field experience a week, I realized how much of an impact it has on my teacher training. When I become a teacher, I hope I am able to utilize and be a resource to a teacher candidate and really help them to learn about the profession! I also went over standards and applying them to the classroom with Mrs. Dowell and her and another math teacher use the "chunking" method where they chunk together the most important standards and come up with a timeline for teaching each chunk. It was kind of overwhelming to see all the work they had to put in when putting together each chunk and all the resources needed for that chunk. However, Mrs. Dowell reassured me that once you've done it once, you have a template to refer to and it gets easier every year.....that is, until the goverment makes more changes! hahahaha. I can't wait to teach my lessons--but I am still nervous, too! One student asked me how tall I was and did not believe I was 20.... :( haha