Student Teaching Reflection 5

This week, I am finally in a classroom! I met my mentor teacher on Tuesday and observed her classes on Thursday. I was very happy to see the classes and interact with the students. I was able to help with a few of the lessons and began to get a feel for my mentor teacher's teaching style. One class that I am equally excited and anxious about is Conceptual Biology. This is a class for students who passed their biology class but did not pass the Biology Keystone (PA standardized test). These students had a test review on Thursday, and it was obvious that they were not excited about the content of the class. Many of these students find biology extremely challenging or are completely uninterested in the concepts. This provides a challenge for the teacher to make sure that these students remain motivated enough to learn and are able to easily understand the information. I am a bit uncertain about this class because I don't know if I will be able to provide that motivation and come up with fun activities to get the student involved. On the other hand, I am also looking forward to trying to find or create activities that will be a lot of fun and really help these students learn. Another class that I will be helping to teach is Anatomy and Physiology. I am very excited to teach this class because just in the one day that I have seen these students, they were very curious and brought up a lot of good questions. This class, I think, will lend itself very well to purposeful questioning. Overall, I am really looking forward to this experience, and I am excited to see what I will learn from it.