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The student teacher had a very positive experience during their student teaching placement. They gained confidence in themselves as an educator while working with different students from junior kindergarten to 5th grade. The most important lessons learned were creating strong student-teacher-parent relationships, establishing consistent routines in the classroom, and knowing that not every lesson will go as planned. The student teacher was able to apply their learning around differentiation of instruction to help meet the diverse needs of all students.

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Student Teaching Reflection Insights

The student teacher had a very positive experience during their student teaching placement. They gained confidence in themselves as an educator while working with different students from junior kindergarten to 5th grade. The most important lessons learned were creating strong student-teacher-parent relationships, establishing consistent routines in the classroom, and knowing that not every lesson will go as planned. The student teacher was able to apply their learning around differentiation of instruction to help meet the diverse needs of all students.

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Student Teaching Reflection

Throughout my student teaching experience I have learned so much

about the students, how students learn, and myself. I started out my

journey very nervous but throughout all the time spent with the students

and teaching I have gained so much confidence in myself as an educator. I

loved every second of being with all the different students that I got to be

with during my journey. Luckily I was able to sub during my experience so I

got to go in all different classrooms throughout JrK-5th grade. I had an

amazing cooperating teacher who taught me so much about education and

life in general. Teaching is so rewarding and everyday my goal is to inspire

and change a student's life. During my time at Madison Elementary School,

I collaborated with my cooperating teacher, other team members in 3rd

grade, paraprofessionals and the IEP teams. Although there were many

things I have learned this past year there are three things that stick out the

most to me. The first is that it is so important to create

student/teacher/parent relationships from the beginning of school. The

second most important factor that I learned is that it’s important to create a

good routine in your classroom and stick by the routine throughout the

whole year. This also ties into having good time management and being

fully prepared for the school day. The last big takeaway is that it is okay
and important to know that not every lesson might not go the way you

planned it. The most important thing from that is that you are aware and

can critique yourself on what went well and what can be improved.

Every student learns at a different pace and might need different

accommodations which need to be utilized in every lesson being taught.

Throughout my experience I had some different challenges with students

and the most challenging being one student came more than ¾ way

through the year and he only spoke Spanish. This created a lot of meetings

with different people from different teams to work together to find out where

this student was at in his learning process to provide him with the right

materials for the best learning experience for him. He was out of the class

most of the time but the times he was in the classroom it was really

challenging for us to communicate but luckily we have the resources that

most schools might not have. We were able to get a classroom Ipad and

we could download an app that allowed us to speak to him and him to

speak to us by converting the languages. By collaborating with a great

team, we worked together to accommodate all the learner’s abilities.

During my time at Dakota State, I have learned from various courses

how to differentiate instruction and by applying those strategies in my

semester of student teaching, I was able to watch how important it is to


differentiate to help each student be successful. As my time as a student

teaching comes to an end, I want to remember to meet the needs of each

student when I have my own classroom!

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