My own fieldwork experience

There is so much to reflect on this semester and thanks to this course I feel as though I've grown so much. I was able to learn by watching my peers teach and reflecting on their work. Then I was able to use these reflections to improve my own work. I like receiving feedback no matter if it's positive or negative. It's important to understand that negative feedback is only in place to help me and this. It helps improve my future work and that is super beneficial to me as a teacher. Throughout fieldwork I left feedback for my peers in way fieldwork reflections and three pluses and a wish. They did this for me as well and I was able to fix my work based off their comments. I'm a strong believer in learning through mistakes. I loved with working with my group! It was tough this semester trying to come up with the perfect lesson plan, but my group was able to bring it at every step. We each brought important ideas to the table and I’m so glad they went through all of this with me. I think it’s hard for people who aren’t teachers to realize how much work truly goes into to lesson planning. There’s so much that needs to be done, and so many things that have to be planned before you get into the classroom. It’s impossible to walk into a classroom one morning with no plan whatsoever. Also, it is becoming more and more common for students to be in co-teach classrooms. The idea of it is very scary because there is a lot of collaboration involved. You don’t want to step on people’s toes, but at the same time you don’t want to be a pushover. This fieldwork experience prepared me for this and made me feel more confident not only in myself as a teacher, but also as a co teacher. This was a wonderful experience and I’ll cherish forever.