One of my biggest problems with teaching is my time
management. I always end up under planning and having to come up with activities
on the spot because a lot of my classes can’t handle free time or they get out
of control. It is really hard to know how much to prepare for class. One day
the students will work really slowly and the next they are done in a blink of
an eye, where the students work at such different rates on different days I am
never sure how much to prepare for the days lesson.
I reach the dilemma of over preparing and having some of my
classes falling behind the others or under preparing and then I am not filling
up my class with valuable teaching information to help the students learn. Yes
students need free time some days but when the classes can’t handle the free
time and get extremely out of hand when you allow them to talk it is vitally
important to have the necessary teaching material and I am still trying to find
the balance. I am always learning and trying to adapt to new things. My mentor
teacher is always nice and helps me out and we come up with essays for the
students to write to help me gauge their writing for my research or we give
them activities that can help boost their grade. Even though this is busy work some
students need the easy assignments to help bring up their test grades, even the
best students can be bad test takers.
Time management is a work
in progress for me…
No comments:
Post a Comment