I can hardly believe that my student teaching experience is over already. I just sat down at home after conducting in the Winter Concert at RHS, and as I'm writing this blog many thoughts and emotions run through my head. I'm feeling proud, exhausted, excited, nostalgic, and mostly humbled. The music making that took place during the concert tonight was truly inspiring. Tonight's concert has developed in me a more profound passion for the profession that I have chosen, and I am incredibly grateful for the experience.
This concert was the perfect end to a semester full of learning. My teaching and professional attitude have grown immensely over the course of this semester, and I look forward to my continued growth as a teacher in the months and years to come. My student teaching experience has helped me to develop a reflective outlook on my own teaching, so that I can continue to improve myself as educator. This reflective process has already helped me improve my instruction in Chorus, Music in Society, Music Theory, and Vocal Techniques, and has inspired me to think about how I might teach each of these subjects differently when I have a classroom all to myself. My reflection has inspired me to think of more ways to differentiate instruction in each of the lessons I taught, and imagine an even more diverse and authentic approach to assessment. When I first stepped in front the classroom at Robbinsville 13 weeks ago, I was nervous, excited, and unaware of just how much I would grow over the course of the semester. Although I will sincerely miss each of the students I came to know during the course of this teaching experience, I am truly excited for the next chapter of my teaching career to begin.
This concert was the perfect end to a semester full of learning. My teaching and professional attitude have grown immensely over the course of this semester, and I look forward to my continued growth as a teacher in the months and years to come. My student teaching experience has helped me to develop a reflective outlook on my own teaching, so that I can continue to improve myself as educator. This reflective process has already helped me improve my instruction in Chorus, Music in Society, Music Theory, and Vocal Techniques, and has inspired me to think about how I might teach each of these subjects differently when I have a classroom all to myself. My reflection has inspired me to think of more ways to differentiate instruction in each of the lessons I taught, and imagine an even more diverse and authentic approach to assessment. When I first stepped in front the classroom at Robbinsville 13 weeks ago, I was nervous, excited, and unaware of just how much I would grow over the course of the semester. Although I will sincerely miss each of the students I came to know during the course of this teaching experience, I am truly excited for the next chapter of my teaching career to begin.