Forward Thinking
After reflecting this year and where I'm currently at, I think I need a change. For the next few months, I need to determine what change could be for me. I'm feeling slightly disconnected from teaching because my student teachers have been in their lead takeovers of my classroom. I have some new opportunities that may help influence what some possibilities could be to find my place. I'll be presenting at NSTA for the first time around my Amazing STEM lesson, how do we smell cookies from ~10 blocks away? I am excited for this opportunity as I'm always interested in how teachers are teaching not just across Chicago, but across the country. I feel like this may reenergize me for my passion in teaching. Before the start of next year, I'll be working in the Yale Initiative to work with a professor to develop a unit around biomedical engineering. I'm excited to see how I can connect this new learning into my units for next year. I'd also like to work with teachers within my network to build more alignment in the tasks were using with students to compare student work throughout the year.
I think the change I'm looking for could be more long-term. I think next year, I want to have my classroom back to myself to help determine what I'd like to do. I want to work with teachers to help build their capacity in teaching science. With doing so, I'd love to teach an elective like class inspired by my imagine project. I think that students would enjoy learning the societal impacts and vice versa from the units they're currently learning or units they've learned in years prior. I've suggested that next year, I create a science lab for teacher learning within my classroom. I'd like to have an unbiased classroom in which teachers can learn to teach science. My thinking comes with knowing that teachers have a "fear" of teaching science. I'd love for teachers to observe me model, then co-plan and co-teach a lesson, and finally teach a lesson on their own to students who have never learned from them, as well as a different classroom. Maybe if this lab idea doesn't work, I'll be able to work with teachers K-3 to more regularly teach science.
I think the change I'm looking for could be more long-term. I think next year, I want to have my classroom back to myself to help determine what I'd like to do. I want to work with teachers to help build their capacity in teaching science. With doing so, I'd love to teach an elective like class inspired by my imagine project. I think that students would enjoy learning the societal impacts and vice versa from the units they're currently learning or units they've learned in years prior. I've suggested that next year, I create a science lab for teacher learning within my classroom. I'd like to have an unbiased classroom in which teachers can learn to teach science. My thinking comes with knowing that teachers have a "fear" of teaching science. I'd love for teachers to observe me model, then co-plan and co-teach a lesson, and finally teach a lesson on their own to students who have never learned from them, as well as a different classroom. Maybe if this lab idea doesn't work, I'll be able to work with teachers K-3 to more regularly teach science.