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Week 3 Log

Meghann Cooper spent her third week of student teaching helping to wrap up a science unit, grading papers, teaching math, and leading reading groups. Her most satisfying experience was working with a challenging student who showed motivation in math. Her most challenging experience continues to be getting students to understand when she is an authority figure versus when joking is appropriate. For the upcoming week, Meghann plans to begin teaching full lessons from bell to bell with her mentor teacher present for support. She also has a mock interview and wants to continue addressing the authority issue by being firm yet not mean with students.

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Week 3 Log

Meghann Cooper spent her third week of student teaching helping to wrap up a science unit, grading papers, teaching math, and leading reading groups. Her most satisfying experience was working with a challenging student who showed motivation in math. Her most challenging experience continues to be getting students to understand when she is an authority figure versus when joking is appropriate. For the upcoming week, Meghann plans to begin teaching full lessons from bell to bell with her mentor teacher present for support. She also has a mock interview and wants to continue addressing the authority issue by being firm yet not mean with students.

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Student Teaching Weekly Log

Directions: Answer these questions each week and email them to your student teaching
supervisor by Sunday evening.
Name: Meghann Cooper

Week: 3

1. How did you spend your time this week? What responsibilities did you have?
I spent my time helping to wrap up the Robot science unit, grading papers,
teaching math, and leading reading groups. I also sat in on meetings for PBIS and
technology support
2. What were your most satisfying experiences? What were your most challenging
experiences?
My most satisfying experience was working with a child who has major
behavioral problems and is very unmotivated when it comes to school. He says
that he is stupid and theres no point in being there, but one day after I taught a
new math lesson, he asked me if he could sit at my desk while he worked on his
math assignment. I was thrilled that he even wanted to do his assignment and said
that I of course would be happy to help, and he continued to work on that math for
an hour and a half. For him, and any kid for that matter, is an extremely long time
to do math problems, but he wanted to keep working until he finished all of it.
The next day he asked me for help as well.
My most challenging experience is still trying to get the kids to understand Im an
authority figure. Sometimes we can joke around, but they have a hard time
knowing when its time to goof around and when its time to get to work. We had
a talk at the end of the day on Friday so I hope this issue is on its way to being
resolved.
3. What are the plans for the upcoming week?
My plan for this week is to start bell-to-bell! Im so excited to start, but I asked
my mentor teacher to stay in the room for the week until Im more comfortable.
Im also doing my mock interview with the principal so its a very exciting week
for me! This next week I want to make sure that the authority figure problem is
on its way to being taken care of. After speaking with my mentor teacher, she
instructed me that I have to always remember that there is a fine line between how
you should communicate with students and how you shouldnt. She told me that I
dont have to yell and be mean to them, but I need to be firm and direct with
them. Of course theres a time and place to have fun, but that cant be the main
focus. The main focus is that Im there to teach them, and theyre there to learn.

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