Student Teaching Weekly log

Sarah Browning
Week #3

1. This week I spent a lot of my time assisting my mentor teacher with

her planning and teaching. I made the plans for every subject that I
taught and I typed them into a subject outline for the following week. I
spent a bit of time working with students one-on-one each day and I
took over literacy, math, writing, and ELA this week. I began walking
the kids to specials and lunch on my own as well.
2. This week I taught literacy, writing, and ELA. I also began teaching
math so I took over from when the students came in the door and did
their morning math, a meeting, and then their math instruction for the
period.
3. This week was much better in terms of being comfortable. I think it is a
lot harder to manage kids at this age verse when they are younger. I
found it satisfying to have the kids warm up to me even more and just
my overall comfort level increasing.
4. My challenge this week was dealing with a child who refuses to do
anything and is very rude about it. When a fourth grade student sits
there and says that he isnt going to do anything there isnt much that
I can do to force him to do it. If he goes down to the office because he
refuses to do work that doesnt faze him at all.
5. I have planned math, literacy, ELA, afternoon games, morning meeting,
and writing for the whole following week. This week will be the Iowa
tests as well.