I feel my strength lies in communicating information to my students. After today's session, though, I realize I have a great deal of work to do to establish a strong foundational relationships with my students that allow them to see the importance of the information they are trying to learn.
One thing I do well is engaging the students with thoughtful, purposeful art lessons. One thing I will work on next year is multitasking. This means that I will do less multitasking and more giving each student my full attention as m much as possible.
I appreciate your struggle with this. My students often perceive this as me being angry when I am focus on something else when I'm concentrating on something other than the lesson. Look Squirrel!!!! (-:
This is really hard because we all have students which we know need more of our attention. However, Like Dan pointed out, we only have 70 minutes with a large number of students. I think this is where group work can really help. Spending time with small groups can be very effective.
I believe that I communicate well with people and students. I feel I have the ability to easily talk to them and express empathy and so them that I care about their needs.
I think something I need to learn to do better is being someone who empowers and not enables. I sometimes just finish the task or go back after they have completed the task and tweak it to my standards. I need to back off and let them complete the task or muddle threw it.
Some of my greatest learning in life have been the most painful, muddy messes ever-- but I learned the most. Just because I earned an A does not mean I know more than someone who earned a C or D.
Your right. It is often easier in the short term to just help kids complete something. I find this particularly difficult when working with students who have IEP's. I need to do a better job of challenging students.
I believe my strength is to communicate with my students. I feel that i am usually creative, responsive to my students, flexible, and captivating. This is something that in my field it is beneficial to have these traits to be successful. I continue to work on the rest of the EXCEL model. I can do a much better job with greeting my students and making them feel welcome. Evaluating their needs and empower them more to be able to do things on their own. Empowering my students is my ultimate goal in my classroom. I want them to be able to lead on their own and learn a piece of music on their own. This is important to me and what our curriculum promotes.
I understand wanting students to lead and empower them. I'm more proud of the struggling students who end the year feeling comfortable explaining the material to a classmate then I am sometimes of the students who have done well all year.
One thing that I think I do is empower students. One example of doing this is in how I handle retakes for tests. Students have to complete a group review and an individual review. I believe that they are capable of learning the material and I work with them until they do.
Jessie, you are always open to giving kids opportunities to learn. You are accessible and creative. You have the ability to see the big picture and the kids do appreciate that! I love working with you...you are so easy to collaborate with!
I believe one thing I do well is engage my students. I greet my student at the door of my classroom each day, sometime I will give them an object, piece of paper, or recipe. I use attention getters to start a lesson or transition to another topic. Sometimes they are stories, a short clip, or picture. I connect what we will be learning about to real life. One thing I would like to work on is really x-ploring individual needs. Working with a students by what they need vs. what I think they need.
I need to work on meeting individual student needs as well. I need to find the balance of tailoring for the individual student with keeping the class as a whole moving and at the appropriate pace.
I need to work on engaging students. I find myself focusing on the students who manage to engage themselves in the material, but do a poor job in engaging those who typically don't. I need to be better at reaching ALL students and not just those who are self-motivated/engaged.
I think my strength is communication and empowering students. These are such great things about my job! Next year I want to infuse some of these sills and techniques into counseling relationships and small groups since I do not have a classroom.
I think I do a pretty good job of exploring with my students, I like having discussions and using open ended questions with the kids. I think I do a pretty good job of listening too, although my body language could be better, perhaps more solered.
I think that I do a pretty good job of engaging my students. Some of the times I teach kids things that are drab to me but I work hard a finding ways to make them meaningful to all of us. For next year I want to work on giving better feedback. I've been getting better but communicating with students is an area that I need to continue to grow in.
I think my EMPOWERment skills are pretty good. I constantly work to reinforce that what they have learned matters in a real world way, and I try to make sure they feel good about that. What I think I need to work on is my greetings at the door. Its so easy to get distracted with things to finish or to get ready when the kids are in lab.
Another thing I think I do well is promote the "Quality Leader" characteristics on page eight. Usually I exemplify these as well. However not always, and that's where I need to improve, because kids tend to remember when we are off our game, and remind us of our own inconsistency.
I feel my strength lies in communicating information to my students. After today's session, though, I realize I have a great deal of work to do to establish a strong foundational relationships with my students that allow them to see the importance of the information they are trying to learn.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I do well is engaging the students with thoughtful, purposeful art lessons. One thing I will work on next year is multitasking. This means that I will do less multitasking and more giving each student my full attention as m
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I appreciate your struggle with this. My students often perceive this as me being angry when I am focus on something else when I'm concentrating on something other than the lesson.
DeleteLook Squirrel!!!! (-:
70 minutes, 30 students, we have to multitask! Perhaps having a self-managed classroom is the key!
DeleteThis is really hard because we all have students which we know need more of our attention. However, Like Dan pointed out, we only have 70 minutes with a large number of students. I think this is where group work can really help. Spending time with small groups can be very effective.
DeleteIt is hard to not multitask when students are 360 degrees around you, as in my labs as well as yours.
DeleteI believe that I communicate well with people and students. I feel I have the ability to easily talk to them and express empathy and so them that I care about their needs.
ReplyDeleteI think something I need to learn to do better is being someone who empowers and not enables. I sometimes just finish the task or go back after they have completed the task and tweak it to my standards. I need to back off and let them complete the task or muddle threw it.
I struggle with this too. It is often easier to do it for a student than to let them struggle on their own.
DeleteI am also somewhat of an enabler in that I try to make things as easy as possible for students, by removing barriers, to help them be successful.
DeleteSome of my greatest learning in life have been the most painful, muddy messes ever-- but I learned the most. Just because I earned an A does not mean I know more than someone who earned a C or D.
DeleteI'm a big time enable, sometimes I just want to move on and it frustrates me when I'm waiting for a group of kids to finish up.
DeleteYour right. It is often easier in the short term to just help kids complete something. I find this particularly difficult when working with students who have IEP's. I need to do a better job of challenging students.
DeleteI believe my strength is to communicate with my students. I feel that i am usually creative, responsive to my students, flexible, and captivating. This is something that in my field it is beneficial to have these traits to be successful.
ReplyDeleteI continue to work on the rest of the EXCEL model. I can do a much better job with greeting my students and making them feel welcome. Evaluating their needs and empower them more to be able to do things on their own. Empowering my students is my ultimate goal in my classroom. I want them to be able to lead on their own and learn a piece of music on their own. This is important to me and what our curriculum promotes.
I understand wanting students to lead and empower them. I'm more proud of the struggling students who end the year feeling comfortable explaining the material to a classmate then I am sometimes of the students who have done well all year.
DeleteI need to work on my skills greeting students at the door too.
DeleteOne thing that I think I do is empower students. One example of doing this is in how I handle retakes for tests. Students have to complete a group review and an individual review. I believe that they are capable of learning the material and I work with them until they do.
ReplyDeleteTrue, true, all students can learn given the opportunity to learn. I like this retesting procedure.
DeleteJessie, you are always open to giving kids opportunities to learn. You are accessible and creative. You have the ability to see the big picture and the kids do appreciate that! I love working with you...you are so easy to collaborate with!
DeleteI believe one thing I do well is engage my students. I greet my student at the door of my classroom each day, sometime I will give them an object, piece of paper, or recipe. I use attention getters to start a lesson or transition to another topic. Sometimes they are stories, a short clip, or picture. I connect what we will be learning about to real life.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I would like to work on is really x-ploring individual needs. Working with a students by what they need vs. what I think they need.
You do such a nice job establishing a safe and supportive learning environment,Shelley!
DeleteI need to work on meeting individual student needs as well. I need to find the balance of tailoring for the individual student with keeping the class as a whole moving and at the appropriate pace.
ReplyDeleteI need to work on engaging students. I find myself focusing on the students who manage to engage themselves in the material, but do a poor job in engaging those who typically don't. I need to be better at reaching ALL students and not just those who are self-motivated/engaged.
ReplyDeleteI think my strength is communication and empowering students. These are such great things about my job! Next year I want to infuse some of these sills and techniques into counseling relationships and small groups since I do not have a classroom.
ReplyDeleteI think I do a pretty good job of exploring with my students, I like having discussions and using open ended questions with the kids. I think I do a pretty good job of listening too, although my body language could be better, perhaps more solered.
ReplyDeleteI think that I do a pretty good job of engaging my students. Some of the times I teach kids things that are drab to me but I work hard a finding ways to make them meaningful to all of us. For next year I want to work on giving better feedback. I've been getting better but communicating with students is an area that I need to continue to grow in.
ReplyDeleteI think my EMPOWERment skills are pretty good. I constantly work to reinforce that what they have learned matters in a real world way, and I try to make sure they feel good about that.
ReplyDeleteWhat I think I need to work on is my greetings at the door. Its so easy to get distracted with things to finish or to get ready when the kids are in lab.
Another thing I think I do well is promote the "Quality Leader" characteristics on page eight. Usually I exemplify these as well. However not always, and that's where I need to improve, because kids tend to remember when we are off our game, and remind us of our own inconsistency.
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