My First Two Weeks!!

My first two weeks of field experience were definitely not exactly what I had expected. I learned a lot from the classroom environment that I have been placed in. The classroom that I am doing my field experience in is a very diverse classroom with students who come from many different backgrounds. There are 19 students in my CTs classroom all with varying personalities and abilities. From observing to actually working with students was very different for me. Learning how to work with students at a variety of different levels was a very hard task for me to overcome the first couple of times that I worked with the students in small groups. From having students who need very little guidance to students who move a lot slower in the learning processes and take a little bit longer to complete the task was a very difficult task to overcome in such a short amount of time that you get to spend with the students during our stations. After the first week and having time to gauge how to work with each students individual needs it definitely made week two a lot easier when it comes to working with each student in small groups. I knew which students I could give a little more freedom to and which students I had to help guide slightly along the way. But as I do more and more activities with the students I get more comfortable with my abilities to lead them in small groups. I have learned so many new things within my first two weeks of field experience and I cannot wait to see what the rest of my time in my CTs classroom has for me.

How has everyone else's transitions into their classrooms been going? Is everyone starting to feel more comfortable with where they are in their classrooms?