Reflection On My Journey To Becoming A Teacher

This semester I had to complete two goals if I was to continue on my journey to become a teacher. The first was that I needed to spend a total of fifteen hours observing a teacher during their instruction period, and the second was that I needed to choose the level or grade on which I planned to focus on during my own career. The staff and administration at Riverhills Elementary International Baccalaureate Magnet School, where I completed all my observational hours, were so accommodating and inspiring that I was able to easily attain both of my goals and feel great while doing so. Though I have personal experiences teaching in Sunday school, it did not stop the nervous butterflies I had in my tummy the first day of my observation, and I wasn’t even going to be teaching! The first teacher I observed was Ms. Sapp, she teaches third grade and is really the kind of teacher that I think all parents hope their kids’ get assigned. Even though Ms. Sapp has only been

Brown is an experienced teacher and it shows. She is able to easily command respect and interest from her students. I was really impressed during my observation when it came time for her unit in math. The subject was perimeter and Mrs. Brown asked all the students to individually define perimeter inside their math journals, she then asked the class to come up with a definition of perimeter. During the lesson Mrs. Brown utilized the projector to show and label the perimeter of an object, she then showed a PowerPoint presentation that described a real world problem (she needed to have X amount of seats, no more, no less, and they all wanted to sit together) and the students used counters to show the different way in which the tables could be arranged to sit that amount of people. The correct answers were then drawn inside their journals and the unique ones were displayed on the overhead projector. I wish there had been more counter because I wanted to use my own imagination to help solve this