This site is a class blog space for new Career and Technical Specializations and Heathcare Science teachers enrolled in the New Teacher Institute (NTI) at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Reflection on Fall Semester
Knowing and understanding the components of the lesson plan and how and why preparation is so important to creating a good psychological atmosphere in the class has been my biggest improvement. I have enjoyed feeling more relaxed and prepared. I have enjoyed finding out that I have the tools to do a good job teaching. I really have appreciate all the different activities and methods we have been taught to use to present information in a way other than lecture. The area in which I need to improve in is figuring out how to evaluate student work in a thorough but quicker manner. I am stuck on thinking quizzes and tests are the only way to evaluate if a student has truly learned. I am looking forward to next semester to learn alternative ways to evaluate students fairly and in a manner that is truly helpful to determine their knowledge.
Connie,
ReplyDeleteI, too, am looking forward to learning various methods of evaluating students. Written tests have been my number one tool and I would like to implement other methods. I think we are proned to thinking this is the method used for evaluating because that is how we were assessed as students and therefore it just seems standard.