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Personal Developent

What have I learned about being an educator and where can I improve?

Areas of Strength

Students like me as a teacher. They feel that they learn well from me and they are comfortable with coming to me for help. I am open to trying new strategies for teaching and it allows me to format lessons in different ways so students can learn in many different ways. I also have the privilege of being a younger teacher, so I am able to relate more to what students go through as young people. These connections helped build community amongst my classes since they feel that I am working with them, not against them. I am a trustworthy and stable adult in many of my students' lives and it is important to acknowledge that as a strength.

Areas of Growth

I would like to get better at having more students answer out loud. I have tried many ways to up student engagement, but many days it is the same 2-4 kids answering the questions. Cell phones have also been a struggle, as I don’t want to take student property but they are a distraction. Finding a balance between keeping them away during instruction and not having to take them would be useful going forward.

Induction Goals

I would like to work on whole class engagement. Students come into math with a soured idea of what class might be, but I have been afraid to push students this school year. I would like to help students overcome their fear of math since they have always been taught to think of math in a way that is all or nothing, you get it or you don’t, you pass or you fail. Math is a class of progressing and learning just like any other subject and I would like to work on pushing students towards learning without fear of them disengaging further.

CalTPA Reflection

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