Landon Mitchell - Week 3 1/22-1/25
Week three started off pretty good with having Monday off of school. We had school from Tuesday-Friday. I was able to talk with my cooperating teachers and teach some lessons and by the end of the week I was teaching by myself. Tuesday and Wednesday were first facilitated by my cooperating teacher until I took over completely at the end of last season I was giving instruction to what is going to be happening the next day and for the rest of the week. Wednesday’s are late starts for students, in PE class we have fitness days in the main gym where the kids need to run a certain amount of time to get full participation points for that day. This week the students ran seven minutes on took a two minute rest walk, and then ran for another six minutes until they were dismissed to the locker rooms. On Thursday and Friday my cooperating teacher was in the classroom while I was instructing/demonstrating specific skills to the students for them to learn. I was given the freedom seventh hour on Thursday and Friday to completely take over where my cooperating teacher was not in the classroom whatsoever. I did speak with him in the previous periods to make sure I was covering all the material that he wanted all of the students to know. The students were receptive to my instructions minus a few that want to push the buttons or boundaries a little bit, but I was able to speak with them and they are on board with how I teach. I tried to give the students respect and hopefully they will give me the same amount that I show them. I have been trying to use my time wisely so I give the students an opportunity to change for their next class. I unfortunately was not able to get the strength and conditioning students into the weight room fast enough and they were distracted by students that were in the hallway. I can see where this could be a problem potentially in the future depending on which tunes are in the hallway that interact with my kids. I am getting more accustomed to how the students are and their behaviors which then allows me to become a better teacher because I am able to facilitate a classroom where they can learn to their fullest potential. This Wednesday I was able to sit in on a learning target and a central target conference with other teachers. Since the students started late it was a mandatory meeting for certain individuals to participate in this seminar. I was able to help my cooperating teacher apply certain state standards to a learning target they were creating for the CPR unit.Some things I learned this week were different strategies of how to present specific information to different students, whether that student was a male or female or potential he a different ethnicity or religion then me. I was able to take a step back and almost see my instructions through the eyes of the student to help benefit their learning environment as well as make years with my teaching environment. I have witnessed some teachers and students not comprehending each other and it makes for a hostile environment and that is not good for learning nor teaching. I am constantly communicating with other teachers outside of my cooperating teacher’s to see how they are instructing or how they build relationships with their students. I believe that this way of communication with other teachers can benefit me in the long run. I not only talk to Physical education teachers but also other subjects to see how certain students are interacting with in the classroom. My cooperating teacher gave me opportunity to respond to an email regarding a student that was in my freshman PE class. The email was asking about how the student was acting in the classroom for a behavior standpoint. The student has shown nothing but respect towards me and forgot their swimsuit after the long weekend so they were not able to dress for that day. They were completely apologetic and were asking where they can make up their points so that they can increase their grade. The student is an excellent student to respond to as opposed to my cooperating teacher had to respond to another email about a student that was being very difficult and unfortunately her grade P.E. is not a very good grade. She has consistently either for getting her clothes or not going to the doctor to get a doctors note due to an allergic reaction to chlorine. She is not only a struggling student in physical education but also her other classes. I hope I am able to help her out in anyway possible so that she does not have to retake freshman PE. This upcoming week I believe my student supervisor or college supervisor is coming to observe me later in the week and I cannot wait to see their feedback with my instruction to my students at Reavis high school. I feel that I am doing a good job instructing and facilitating a learning environment for my students but it would be good to get an outside source’s Feedback on my instructing. Some of the things that I have done in the past few weeks I know I need to pay attention to the time due to how the bell schedule runs at Reavis high school. I want to make sure that I give my students a safe environment. As the weeks go by I hope to learn more techniques on a really engaging students to maximize their learning potential and hopefully giving them a safe and fun environment to learn. I really do enjoy and understand why my school does certain tasks to show progression for the state. I believe they are doing a find job and input my name hi expectations on the students and holding them accountable to create achieving young men and women.During Wednesday’s PLC meeting I was able to help my cooperating teachers with a state standard for learning CPR. The state standard falls under PE 22. A. 4c, The state standard states students will be able to “demonstrate basic procedures and injury prevention and emergency care they can be used in the home, workplace, and community ( e.g., first aid, CPR).” Illinois PE state standards. The essential learning targets were created to help students understand the knowledge of CPR and how to implement it in a emergency situation. I will be able to implement these essential learning standards next week when I teach CPR to my sports class.https://www.isbe.net/Documents/Goals-19-24-and-Perf-Descrip.pdf
Week three started off pretty good with having Monday off of school. We had school from Tuesday-Friday. I was able to talk with my cooperating teachers and teach some lessons and by the end of the week I was teaching by myself. Tuesday and Wednesday were first facilitated by my cooperating teacher until I took over completely at the end of last season I was giving instruction to what is going to be happening the next day and for the rest of the week. Wednesday’s are late starts for students, in PE class we have fitness days in the main gym where the kids need to run a certain amount of time to get full participation points for that day. This week the students ran seven minutes on took a two minute rest walk, and then ran for another six minutes until they were dismissed to the locker rooms. On Thursday and Friday my cooperating teacher was in the classroom while I was instructing/demonstrating specific skills to the students for them to learn. I was given the freedom seventh hour on Thursday and Friday to completely take over where my cooperating teacher was not in the classroom whatsoever. I did speak with him in the previous periods to make sure I was covering all the material that he wanted all of the students to know. The students were receptive to my instructions minus a few that want to push the buttons or boundaries a little bit, but I was able to speak with them and they are on board with how I teach. I tried to give the students respect and hopefully they will give me the same amount that I show them. I have been trying to use my time wisely so I give the students an opportunity to change for their next class. I unfortunately was not able to get the strength and conditioning students into the weight room fast enough and they were distracted by students that were in the hallway. I can see where this could be a problem potentially in the future depending on which tunes are in the hallway that interact with my kids. I am getting more accustomed to how the students are and their behaviors which then allows me to become a better teacher because I am able to facilitate a classroom where they can learn to their fullest potential. This Wednesday I was able to sit in on a learning target and a central target conference with other teachers. Since the students started late it was a mandatory meeting for certain individuals to participate in this seminar. I was able to help my cooperating teacher apply certain state standards to a learning target they were creating for the CPR unit.Some things I learned this week were different strategies of how to present specific information to different students, whether that student was a male or female or potential he a different ethnicity or religion then me. I was able to take a step back and almost see my instructions through the eyes of the student to help benefit their learning environment as well as make years with my teaching environment. I have witnessed some teachers and students not comprehending each other and it makes for a hostile environment and that is not good for learning nor teaching. I am constantly communicating with other teachers outside of my cooperating teacher’s to see how they are instructing or how they build relationships with their students. I believe that this way of communication with other teachers can benefit me in the long run. I not only talk to Physical education teachers but also other subjects to see how certain students are interacting with in the classroom. My cooperating teacher gave me opportunity to respond to an email regarding a student that was in my freshman PE class. The email was asking about how the student was acting in the classroom for a behavior standpoint. The student has shown nothing but respect towards me and forgot their swimsuit after the long weekend so they were not able to dress for that day. They were completely apologetic and were asking where they can make up their points so that they can increase their grade. The student is an excellent student to respond to as opposed to my cooperating teacher had to respond to another email about a student that was being very difficult and unfortunately her grade P.E. is not a very good grade. She has consistently either for getting her clothes or not going to the doctor to get a doctors note due to an allergic reaction to chlorine. She is not only a struggling student in physical education but also her other classes. I hope I am able to help her out in anyway possible so that she does not have to retake freshman PE. This upcoming week I believe my student supervisor or college supervisor is coming to observe me later in the week and I cannot wait to see their feedback with my instruction to my students at Reavis high school. I feel that I am doing a good job instructing and facilitating a learning environment for my students but it would be good to get an outside source’s Feedback on my instructing. Some of the things that I have done in the past few weeks I know I need to pay attention to the time due to how the bell schedule runs at Reavis high school. I want to make sure that I give my students a safe environment. As the weeks go by I hope to learn more techniques on a really engaging students to maximize their learning potential and hopefully giving them a safe and fun environment to learn. I really do enjoy and understand why my school does certain tasks to show progression for the state. I believe they are doing a find job and input my name hi expectations on the students and holding them accountable to create achieving young men and women.During Wednesday’s PLC meeting I was able to help my cooperating teachers with a state standard for learning CPR. The state standard falls under PE 22. A. 4c, The state standard states students will be able to “demonstrate basic procedures and injury prevention and emergency care they can be used in the home, workplace, and community ( e.g., first aid, CPR).” Illinois PE state standards. The essential learning targets were created to help students understand the knowledge of CPR and how to implement it in a emergency situation. I will be able to implement these essential learning standards next week when I teach CPR to my sports class.https://www.isbe.net/Documents/Goals-19-24-and-Perf-Descrip.pdf
Your blog gives great, detailed reflections of the many experiences of first from this past week. You have continued to identify strategies and routines that will help you with teaching and learning. How can I help so that next week, you call out the IPTS standards into your blog so these become more seamless in your reflection? I see the teaching standards and need to see the connections you make to the others.
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Dr. Austin
You continue to present very detailed blogs. There is sufficient information that gives me a full understanding of what is occurring in the class room. I was happy to read that you are beginning to take over some of the classes. You should be moving towards teaching your maximum load as soon as possible.
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