One of my learning goals that I created to accomplish this year was to speak loudly while teaching lessons. When I taught lessons last semester, I often was encouraged by my host teacher to speak louder when presenting the information. This semester, I have been more aware of the volume of my voice when teaching my lessons to ensure that I reach all students. I knew that speaking louder would make a difference in keeping the students’ attention, but I never realized how much it would affect my lessons. Since I have worked toward this goal, I find the students’ goofing off/talking less and staying actively engaged in the lesson.
As the semester progresses, I find the target dates of my assignments and goals being revised a bit. This is due to snow days, two hour delays, and time management occurring in the classroom. Along with my mentor teachers help though, I have found it very easy to get all of my goals and assignments completed this fur due to her continuing support. I have yet to get behind in my assignments and hope to keep it that way.
As far as learning goals go, I find myself creating a learning goal every week to accomplish for the duration of those days. I find that this helps me to stay motivated and focused as to what I have to complete and allows me to put forth all my efforts onto those subjects/assignments.
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Gina, I definately can relate to you and your learning goals. I too am trying to improve how I speak to my students. I use to tend to talk softly to children but now I am realizing talking louder and more firmly really does make a difference in how they listen and how they respect you. I used to have to remind myslef to talk louder but now it is becoming more natural in order to do so. I am glad to hear you are having improvements in the classroom as well. I am in Preston County so snow days are no stranger to me! I have not been following my practicum plan as intended because of this but everything does seem to be getting on time. I also love hearing that you create learning goals every week as we should so that we can better ourselves.
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