efficiency
I have no ability to be efficient with this teaching thing right now. I spend my whole planning period, as well as 4th period (since I'm not teaching yet) planning. Addititonally I spend about 2 hrs on the weekend and 2 hours a night during the week. I'm doing this all and I'm not getting paid for any of it... HAHAHA.
I feel like I come to class with good lesson plans. Where I fail is all the lines in between. How do you connect these ideas, how do you give studetns the big picture. I feel like all of these comments are improv. I have tried planning the segues but it doesn't work. I hope I grow into this ability cuz right now it's really frustrating.
Student teaching is really hard. We are doing work, homework, and being observed at all times. And we're not getting paid.
I really want to be good at this. That's what makes it so hard. I want to be a good teacher and right now I am not good at all. I am so frustrated.
I hope it all gets better or I won't want to teach at all.
2 Comments:
Hey, don't be so hard on yourself--if you weren't good, you never would have made it this far. And try to put things into perspective and realize that the student teaching part of it is meant for learning through experience, trial and error. If you showed up perfect to begin with, then there would be no point to it. Besides, there's no such thing as a perfect teacher--just ones who work hard at getting better.
It is a lot more work than I expected though. I feel like I'm reading too much into things, trying to find the exact-right way to word a question or agonizing over a single activity. I'm putting in a lot more effort than my mentor teachers ever did, and hopefully it will be time well spent. But I know how you feel, I'm exhausted. I ran away from home this weekend and refused to even open my plan book. Hope it gets better for you!
Hi G... in a word, ditto!
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