Pre-internship Weblog

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I am part Irish, but have not been part of the festivities since I have been out west. Oh well, maybe another year.

On another note, this was my last day at the Regina Huda School. I really enjoyed my time there. The staff are fabulous, the kids are great and the stories I can take with me will remind me of the great time I had while there.

For my last math class, I returned my student’s math tests. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from them. For the most part, they all did fairly well, with a few stragglers that could have used a little more assistance on my part. After correcting the tests, I can see how to structure my tests in order to make it easier for marking and reading the marks to tally up on the total mark of the test. I have decided I will put the amount a question is worth in the left column in a box, this way the students can easily see what it is worth and I can easily see if I have added all the parts in a question. I made some errors correcting the tests as I didn’t have a specific spot I could write the marks on. I had used the right side of the page, making it difficult to see the numbers when student wrote over top of that section. Once again, lesson learned.

For IP, the group was working away on their assignment. I am hoping they will have them completed by Wednesday and can e-mail them back so I can mark them.

At the end of each pre-internship, the cooperating teacher is to fill out a short assessment report. I was very pleased with the her report. She gave me some great encouragement, as well as suggestions for next time. This is meant to be a learning process, so having her critique my skills as a teacher is welcoming. I need to have that guidance in order to better myself as a teacher. Her suggestion to me is to remember to keep tighter control of the students at the beginning which can allow me to “loosen” the atmosphere later in the year. Keeping this in mind as I prepare for my internship, I hope to take the many ideas and tools that have been given to me over the past three weeks and use them in my next placement.