Do you ever look around for an adult and then realize you are the adult? Yeah, that's happening to me a lot lately. Pretty soon we will not only be adults, but also teachers. Talk about responsibility overload. In each of our EDUC classes, we are being prepared to teach the little minds that will one day be in our classroom, but until this week I had not thought about the possibility of teaching "bigger minds." There may be an opportunity when we are asked to lead a faculty meeting, or to share a strategy that we use in our classroom (which, by the way, is something we should strive for because it probably means you're doing something right).
This week we had the chance to practice this. We were able to collaborate with each other and pull together reading strategies that could be used across multiple disciplines. Then, we presented our work to our "colleague(s)." In doing this we practiced multiple teacher standards by: demonstrating leadership in the school and in the teaching profession (NCPTS 1), working collaboratively with other teachers in the lives of our students (NCPTS 2), recognizing the interconnectedness of content areas (NCPTS 3), and taking steps towards professional growth (NCPTS 5).
On a side note, the semester is on that downhill plunge towards summer!
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