This week is finals week for summer semester and I have so much to do...but the end is in sight. In less than one month, I will be in my student teaching classroom, with my students, working with my host teacher and learning so many new things.
Wow, that is all I have to say: Wow!
Mrs. H.
Monday, July 28, 2014
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Questioning my reasons
Today I had a conversation with an instructor of mine about what is needed in an interview session. What I need to have at the ready when I interview for a teaching job.
It all started with an assignment on writing good multiple choice questions. The instructor gave us a standard and objectives from the 7th grade core regarding electricity. Well, I am not a 7th grade teacher, nor a subject specific teacher, nor an electrician, so I know very little about flow and restriction of energy. So after fumbling our way through coming up with a good question and a lively discussion with my classmates, the class was over and we were walking to our car.
The instructor, myself and two other students were continuing the conversation about what makes a good multiple choice question when I told him that I was not an electrician and maybe I would create better elementary multiple choice questions. He told me that I can't say that in an interview. I was taken back by this because the fact still remains that I am NOT an electrician.
So the conversation continued and I was told that I needed to either know every subject matter question and be able to answer it on the spot or become very familiar with the diagnostics of test results.
I know that I need to work on my interview skills but I do not have all the answers to subject related questions, nor do I know how to decode test results and create an individualized lesson on the spot.
The next year will open my eyes to the world of day to day teaching and working with diverse students and coming up with individualized lessons based on the results of different types of assessment given to my students.
This one class, this one instructor does NOT have all the answers,not does he call all the shots on whether I get hired or not. Regardless I know that I need to work on how to interview. I will put that on my list of things to do...
Mrs. H.
It all started with an assignment on writing good multiple choice questions. The instructor gave us a standard and objectives from the 7th grade core regarding electricity. Well, I am not a 7th grade teacher, nor a subject specific teacher, nor an electrician, so I know very little about flow and restriction of energy. So after fumbling our way through coming up with a good question and a lively discussion with my classmates, the class was over and we were walking to our car.
The instructor, myself and two other students were continuing the conversation about what makes a good multiple choice question when I told him that I was not an electrician and maybe I would create better elementary multiple choice questions. He told me that I can't say that in an interview. I was taken back by this because the fact still remains that I am NOT an electrician.
So the conversation continued and I was told that I needed to either know every subject matter question and be able to answer it on the spot or become very familiar with the diagnostics of test results.
I know that I need to work on my interview skills but I do not have all the answers to subject related questions, nor do I know how to decode test results and create an individualized lesson on the spot.
The next year will open my eyes to the world of day to day teaching and working with diverse students and coming up with individualized lessons based on the results of different types of assessment given to my students.
This one class, this one instructor does NOT have all the answers,not does he call all the shots on whether I get hired or not. Regardless I know that I need to work on how to interview. I will put that on my list of things to do...
Mrs. H.
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