Practicum Reflection Essay

Introduction

During this semester in middle school principal and practices we spent time doing workshops, which gave us a chance to teach our peers and learn from our peers. We learnt quite a bit during this semester, from Deb as well as from the textbook. We learnt how to teach tweens, what we can do to push the students, engage the student and how we as pre-service teacher and future teachers can improve in our classroom, yet there are still some unanswered questions to be answered as well as some questions that still need to be discussed. This semester the class has had countless opportunities to learn and question what we are learning and ask question that we still have.

What I learnt

When thinking about what I learned about teaching

This quote made me question and think about my practicum. How do we teach our tweens to teach, it also made me look back to see that my students were teaching each other, especially when we did the poster project on a pharaoh, god or goddess from Egypt, the students learnt about their person they chose and were able to share and teach the other students and even teach me a little bit about their particular subject. This semester during the workshop I learnt how others can do this practice in class and the example of teaching dance moves worked greatly as an example. This really pushed me to think and question our ability as teachers and what we can do to further out

I believe one thing I needs is resources, or even where to find resources to help teach. This year I was teaching grade five in a middle school and I found it difficult to find resources to teach the grade fives science and social studies. Resources can be very helpful. I also believe I need ways to improve my lesson plans to be classroom ready for anything, to have ways to incorporate ideas and activities into the lesson plans and how to make the relevant to the lesson. I don’t want lesson to be lecture and boring or repetitive. As much as grade five loves jeopardy there are only so many ways you can incorporate it in the classroom. On a personal level I would like to look more into textbook and spend time not just on workshops, yet discussing the chapters as a whole class as