My Mentor Reflection

Over the past week, I have been given more responsibility assistant wise, I feel as if my teachers throughout this month have begun to trust me more. Three tasks I have accomplished was doing laundry for the first time at the center, one of my co-teachers tasked me with putting the sheets and blankets in the washer/dryer. Although it seems like a minimal task it felt good to learn how they do it. Another task is now doing afternoon circle in the Stingrays classroom. 9/10 times I spend my afternoons in the Stingrays room and the teacher has given me the responsibility of doing afternoon circle with the kids. It has been really great and I think overall it is helping me learn different techniques for managing different age groups. In addition to making sure the kids have a good time.

The kids had done these cute art projects and with the experience, I have from Shop I managed to create two separate and creative boards just to help showcase what the kids can do. Overall these tasks helped me to become a better teacher and helped me creatively develop. One piece of constructive feedback I received this week was during a pick up of a child, I was on my way to a class and the parent asked me to let their child know that they were here. I told the child and since the infant room where his mom and little brother were was right across the hall I told him to go ahead. The teacher in that classroom informed that even though I had seen the mom before, and I knew who she was the teacher still needs to see the mom before he can pick her some up. She was very understanding about it and although I did feel bad she assured me that it was an innocent mistake and just to be more cautious in the