Final Blog
- By: Jasmine Santoyo
- Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Today was my last day at
the daycare. I am going to miss everyone. I had such a fun experience working
with my CT and the children. I had two strengths going into my field experience.
One was knowing about how to work with children. I’ve helped my sister and my
best friend with their children since the day they were born and that gave me a
lot of experience about what it is like to be around children which helped me
at the daycare. Another strength was the knowledge that I encountered after my
DAP course. I learned strategies that helped with not only working with
children but also knowing a little bit of how to teach them. I felt like I was
very prepared going in and nothing was nerve wrecking to me. I went along with
the flow and I felt like I belonged right away.
For my improvements, I believe I
have improved on teaching young children and also my skills on working with
them since being at the daycare has given me more experience with children. Two
areas in which I believe that I can still work on would be my teaching and also
my patience. There were children there that were a little hard to work with
because they wouldn’t listen. I feel that I had a lot of patience with them but
it is still something that I would like to keep working on. The most fun part
in this experience for me was honestly just going in every Tuesday morning and
being with the children. I enjoyed talking and interacting with them. Some
children became close to me as I them. The most challenging part of my
experience was working with children who wouldn’t keep their hands to
themselves and would hit other children. I tried my best to try and work with
them but they needed more support than the rest of the children which was
something new for me.
The best lesson that I believe I
taught was with the toddlers. I felt that I had more practice now that I had
taught my first lesson and was able to learn from that correcting my mistakes
in my second lesson. I don’t believe I had a bad lesson since this experience
for me was to learn from my lessons that I taught. I felt like I did great on
both my lessons and was able to learn about some improvements for my future
lessons. I learned three things that I learned from my CT. One was a small tip
that when working with the infants they like to be babied and carried a lot so
whenever they would cry to be picked up and carried to sit down on the floor
next to them and distract them with a toy so they no longer have the option of
being picked up. The second would be that when giving children an activity to
do one should always plan for those that finish early. That way the children
aren’t wondering around with nothing to do. A third thing would be making sure
to show demonstration of what I would like the children to do when instructing
an activity and to practice with them before starting the activity.
Three things that I learned about
myself was that I can teach and it’s not so bad, I can work with others
watching me and being recorded, and that I can learn from my mistakes in
teaching. Lessons don’t have to be perfect and I am just a beginner so I will
have some improving to do. Three things that I learned about the children were
their different personalities. I worked
with students who talked too much, who hit a lot, and others that wouldn’t
cooperate with activities. There were certain struggles with the same children
every day that I went there and I always had a goal on strategy that I can work
on to help the child. Three things that I learned about the education field is
strategies on how to work with kids, teach them, and how to make classroom
environments more educational for children. One thing that I wish I would have
done differently was to take over the classrooms when I was there for a least
half the time that I was there. But there was so much work assigned in my other
classes that I didn’t have time to plan things for children to do and bring in
the materials.
What I am excited about with student teaching is that I
will be taking over the classroom and it would be my own with the guidance of
my MT which I hope I get along with. So far in all my experiences my CT’s have
been great and I hope it continues to be that way for me in the future. I know
that if that isn’t the case I have to learn to do my best because not everyone
always gets along. What I am most anxious about student teaching is getting the
practice of being a real teacher. I hope that at the end I learn that I am
capable of becoming a teacher and that even though the work might be stressful
it is still something I want to do. I say this because I have known friends who
wanted to become teachers but after doing their student teaching they did not
want to continue being an educator and I hope that doesn’t happen to me.
Overall I had a great experience and I enjoyed it very much.
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