Looking over my blogs this week, I can see that one of my biggest areas in need of improvement are classroom management and lesson planning. It's been difficult for me to create ideas and use plans that work for me. As this assignment states, it's easy to focus on the negative. But I have had some small successes, such as keeping my confidence up, at least in front of the students, and finding ways to connect with the students so that they feel that I'm approachable. Most of my small successes this week have been personal things that I've always been trying to work on.
However, perhaps my biggest "success" thus far has been perseverance. Because believe me, there have been plenty of times this semester when I've just wanted to give up. Part of it may be due to the many difficulties outside of the classroom that I've had this semester, but it's been tempting just to run away. Being in the classroom, I realize that I love getting to talk with students, to have discussions, both whole-classroom and one-one-one, but the work that surrounds it is more than I realized. Hopefully, I will be able to keep my perseverance going so that I can finish the semester and graduate.
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