Well I have another high school to add to my resume. First I went to Bingham, then I graduated from Riverton, now I am teaching at Alta!As much as my family doesn't like the idea, I am a Hawk! Actually, not officially because I'm just student teaching, and who knows where I'll be teaching after that, but I do feel a small allegiance to the East side school already. After all, I live in the Alta boundaries, I will be going to the school for the next 4 months (with an Alta parking sticker on my car), I will be teaching over 100 Alta students, getting to know them pretty well I imagine, etc.
So yes, I have started my student teaching. I will be teaching 4 classes until December. Then I graduate!!! (from college not high school). I am really excited to teach and get to know the students in my classes. I haven't done much teaching yet because the teacher I'm working with is starting the classes and teaching the first week or so. But I have been helping out a little here and there. I'm teaching Finance, Entrepreneurship, and 2 Computer Tech classes.
It's awesome to talk to students and help them feel comfortable in class. I love that part of teaching. I want to help students enjoy school and be comfortable there. I'm confident that as I am honest and real with them and as I show that I care about them, they will be able to trust me and allow me to help them. I think it's awesome to think about helping a lot of young people in such a difficult time in life when they have a lot of important decisions.
One student that has been saying 'hi' to me in class and in the halls, came up to me at the end of class today and started asking me questions about a career he has been thinking about going into (He heard me mention that my brother, Jon, works for the government in DC and he had been thinking about doing that). We talked for 5 minutes or so. It made me really excited to be a good influence to students like him!
I'm sure I will have a lot of experiences to share soon. So this is the first post of many about my teaching experience. I hope I don't make our blog too lame by talking about school all the time!
I'll try to use pictures as much as I can. Like these pics that I made Kalli take of me yesterday. I just wanted a good picture that I could use for my profile pictures. I was kind of demanding of Kalli's artistic ability. I wanted a picture that was "cool, artistic, that makes me look mature, professional, and like a teacher." I think that's about what I said. I'm sure Kalli was a little bugged by me continually saying "that's not quite it", but she always does awesome. She's the best, I love you Kalli!!
Here are some good ones:
5 comments:
Congrats Joel!! That's awesome, I like the first picture the best. Good luck on the teaching!!
The 3rd one doesn't really give me the "I'm the teacher" kind of confident feeling- it's good, but I vote for 1 and 2.... Thanks for telling us about this next step!
they are all good pics, the first is my fav... jealous you got high school... my middle schoolers are great.. but 8th graders are..... their own animal let's say
That first photo is H.O.T. Run with it. That sounds like an awesome experience I'm sure you're going to love it. Too bad the hawks got worked by the Miners f-ball team last week. [Just a shameless plug for my alma mater]
Congratulations on becoming a HAWK! ;) Joel, it's great to hear that you're liking your student teaching and can see the impact that you can have on their lives. Every teenager needs a teacher like you!!! You will touch more lives than you know.
P.S. I love the pictures! They look great!
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