My Goals

It felt like a very full week - 4 long days of classes followed by a day at school today (Friday), however, it was so worth it. This day to reconnect with the class at my host school was really great. I chatted with my AT and she is just throwing me right into it. I'm going to be teaching 3 units (WOW): Fractions and Decimals, New France and Creative Writing / A novel study in English. I am really excited and really looking forward to having this week off to start my planning...and getting all those projects out of the way so when I am in practicum I can focus solely on that.

I wrote these goals down (thanks lululemon!) even before I had started this practicum, but I think this is a good place to share them. Here is what I wrote down:

- Journal / Blog every day (or nearly everyday) about the teaching experience.
- Be involved with a sports team or an extra-curricular activity
- Start either an after school reading program, a math club, a drama club or a yoga group depending on what the interest is.
- Invite the prinipal to one of my lessons for feedback.
- Have all my lesson plans finished before day 1 of the practicum block.
- Learn all the students' names before the end of the observation week.

Now that I have met the students, learned a bit more about the school and the culture of the group, I think I have a few more that I want to add:

- Include DPA in my lessons (in an integrated manner) at least 3x / week.
- See my friends at least once / week outside of school.
- Go to the gym or yoga at least 3 times / weekday.
- Create new methods of assessment for me and for the students, which is interesting and dynamic.

This is obviously just a working list, but I think it is a good start.