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    1) The student reflects that their student teaching experience was the most challenging of their life as it required them to fulfill many roles like coach, counselor, content expert, and sometimes police officer. 2) They learned important skills like organization, planning, and time management. While they excelled at planning lessons, they struggled with classroom management and allowing students to know them on a personal level. 3) The student realized that building relationships with students is extremely important for student engagement and learning. They performed best with students who got to know them as a person, not just a teacher.

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    1) The student reflects that their student teaching experience was the most challenging of their life as it required them to fulfill many roles like coach, counselor, content expert, and sometimes police officer. 2) They learned important skills like organization, planning, and time management. While they excelled at planning lessons, they struggled with classroom management and allowing students to know them on a personal level. 3) The student realized that building relationships with students is extremely important for student engagement and learning. They performed best with students who got to know them as a person, not just a teacher.

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    1) The student reflects that their student teaching experience was the most challenging of their life as it required them to fulfill many roles like coach, counselor, content expert, and sometimes police officer. 2) They learned important skills like organization, planning, and time management. While they excelled at planning lessons, they struggled with classroom management and allowing students to know them on a personal level. 3) The student realized that building relationships with students is extremely important for student engagement and learning. They performed best with students who got to know them as a person, not just a teacher.

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    Student Teaching Experience Reflection

    Stenstadvold: TWS, World War II


    Student Teaching Experience Reflection

    My student teaching experience was, by far, the most challenging learning experiences

    in my life. As a high achieving and successful student, school has always been easy for me.

    From primary school through college, A’s were never uncommon. I finish projects, papers

    and large amounts of reading without breaking a sweat. I was often given awards and

    distinctions. I felt so comfortable in my achievements, I thought I knew what a good teacher

    was. I have passed judgment on past teachers; I have even criticized my them. However, it

    was not until this past semester that I had realized that I had no idea what teaching is. I

    never knew just how many expectations were on teachers. In one person, teachers must be

    coaches, they must be counselors, they must be experts of their content, and, when

    necessary, they must be police officers and judges. Through it all, teachers must be the

    models of a moral, empathetic and democratic citizen. If real education occurs when we

    struggle, it was not until this past semester that I was truly educated.

    I learned a great deal in the student teaching process. I have learned to hone my

    organization skills, to speak more clearly and concisely, I have learned to plan, I have

    learned to plan a back up plan, and I have learned to manage and use time (the most elusive

    of all resources) wisely. Some of these skills I learned quickly and executed well. One area

    that I excelled at was my ability to over plan, organize lessons and materials. These skills

    were great assets through out the semester and they helped carry me through more

    challenging lessons. Other things that went well included the rapport I developed with both

    my mentor teachers. Mr. Ross Wilbur and Mr. Doug Gordon are kind, giving men that have
    supported me every day of this past semester. They modeled for me how beneficial

    building relationships can be. I am thankful that despite the challenges of student teaching,

    I had two incredible teachers to guide me and support me. My two excellent mentor

    teachers as well as my organization and planning skills made the difference for my student

    teaching experience.

    While I was successful in some areas, the most relevant lessons I learned are those that

    I was not immediately successful at. Most importantly, I learned that successful teachers

    allow their students to get to know them. I know the importance of doing so because I did

    not always let students get to know me. Because of some of my failings in classroom

    management, I put up my guard with some of my classes. I rarely laughed with these

    groups and I tried to behave as much like a teacher rather than teach like myself. These

    classes, as a result, continued to create classroom management problems. Meanwhile, in a

    couple of other classes, I allowed students to know me as a person as well as their teacher. I

    laughed daily with them, I told them about my family and shared my aspirations and

    feelings with them. The classes that saw this side of me were the same classes that posed

    fewer classroom management problems. Many of the students in these classes were also

    among my highest performing and most dedicated students. For example, during my last

    unit, I held ELO review sessions before a test. All of the students that attended were the

    same students that had gotten to know me. I had only one student from other classes

    attend. If I could do student teaching over again, I would work harder to allow all my

    students to get to know me as well as work to maintain that openness even after difficult

    days. Teaching really is a practice in vulnerability and strength. I hope I can be strong
    enough to allow students to see what I tried to hide for man this past semester in order to

    create a richer, easier learning environment in the future.

    Student teaching is the most challenging experience I have had thus far. Where being a

    student was easy, teaching was an entirely different endeavor. It has forced me to use every

    skill in my arsenal. Through arduous work, it has sharpened my skills in planning and

    organization. However, it has also made me to struggle to see the more important lessons. I

    know now just how important relationship building is. With the students that I have felt

    comfortable with, I have seen them achieve and learn more as a result. With others, I have

    seen how the lack of a connection has disengaged them and hurt their learning. In the

    future, when I have a classroom of my own, I hope to remember that, especially after the

    difficult days. Teaching truly is built on the relationships teachers build with students.

    When we get to know our students and students get to know us, that is when true learning,

    caring and growing can happen. In whatever endeavor I pursue in the future, that is one

    lesson I will always carry with me.

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