Field II Goals

  
     In my second field opportunity there are three areas (of many) that I would like to focus on, which include, clarity in communicating a lesson (simplify), classroom management, and observational skills in order to help me assess. In my first field I felt like I was not always "in the driver's seat" when teacher my lesson and that much of the lesson was lost due to my lack of classroom management skills, a confusing way of presenting the lesson topic, and because it was a shorter field, the abilities of the students was not too clear to me until after teaching my lessons.
     I think in the way I approach my writing, oral presentations, and teaching lessons, I need to work on my clarity and simplifying the point I want to make. I need to be more to the point and shorten things to make sure that the lesson I teach is completed in the amount of time I have, to ensure it is learned. Reflection at the end of a lesson I think is also important.
    Classroom management is somewhere I would love to come up with some creative and unique ways to approach. I don't think kids respond to a teacher yelling at them or telling them to be quiet, plus those are negative ways of dealing with it. I think having a way that is very different might get their attention. 
    Lastly, my observational skills of students is an area I would like to focus on for improvement. I want to be more aware of not just their academic strengths but their social, behavioral, emotional, and motor development. This is just one area of the assessing process I hope to work on through becoming more aware of everyone in the classroom and making it a daily habit when I am observing in the classroom.