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Smith 1 Kennedy Smith Dr. Byrd EDUC 5770 29, January 2024 Weekly Journal 4 This week was my first week of taking over more than half of the instruction in the classroom. My B day teacher has given me full control of the lessons and the classroom. I have recently talked with both of my mentor teachers about my teaching strategies and what I can work on in the future as I take control and take more control in the classroom instruction and management. My A day mentor teacher told me that I talk in a slow and careful manner and that a few of the more advanced students have begun to get bored because I am not moving the classroom activities to the next activity and lesson fast enough. I have noticed from the first day that my A day mentor teacher has a very fast way of talking. Even as an adult I often miss some of her instructions as she quickly moves through her lectures and instructions. I have noticed that a lot of students need extra support in class activities because they did not understand what they were being told to do. In my ESL class this semester Dr. Pantic has told us about her struggles with fast instruction and informed us that the best thing we can do as teachers to help support and increase the understanding of our ELLs is to slow down our instruction, articulate, and repeat. I have tried to implement this in my instruction but my mentor teacher now says that I am talking to slow and that I am losing engagement from some of the class. I have seen improvements in some of our struggling students however with higher
Smith 2 understanding of the material as seen through their written work and end of class check ins. I will need to think about where the happy medium is. I don’t want to speed up my instruction so much that I am only catering to the students that are moving through the course the fastest to make sure that they always have something that engages them while hurrying and leaving the other students behind. I also do not want to be too slow and careful with my teacher's instruction that my students that are excelling and understanding are sitting around bored and waiting for the next step or the next activity. I have talked this over with my B day teacher and he says that my instruction is at a good speed for his class and that the involvement of the students is about where they were with his teaching as well. So I don’t know what to think right now as I continue to plan for the next few weeks of teaching full periods and all the instruction in the classroom.
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