Week 5 Reflections

This is the last week at my high school placement. I am very sad to leave my students and the great friends that I have made over the short five weeks. My mentor teacher has given me so much. She has taught me so much about the Special Education in the high school setting. I feel that I could teach high school when I graduate. I never thought I could say that. I also have had some great learning opportunities. I found that writing when made fun can be very helpful to the students.

I look forward to working on the lessons with my students in the next three days. Its very hard to believe that this placement is over, it seems just as I got started I have to leave. I think that it would be better to have the high school placement for Special Education to be longer. You really can't get a good understanding in such a short time.

I have learned so much about myself as a teacher. I can't wait to get the opportunity Over the last few days at high school my lessons went well and I could see that the students learned from what I was teaching them. They had a great attitude and were willing to work on the final projects that I had the students do. I think that it shows that they respected me as a teacher. From day one, I was not sure that I would have all of the students show me respect.

There was one day, where a student was not listening to me and was very disrespectful. After the whole situation, the student had enough respect to explain himself to me and my mentor teacher. Also he apologized to me for not showing me the respect I deserved.

All of my students worked with me to finalize their work. As they finished their work, they saw why I was having them work on the papers and projects so much. The learned a lot and it was a great experience for both the students and me.