Formative Assessment

This week was doomed with the ever important formative assessment. This is a day when a student teacher meets with their master teacher and supervisor and go over EVERYTHING to do with how the student teacher has been performing. Now i not only woke up the day of my formative to find my fish dead, but my formative was first thing in the morning, so i had to get up, get ready(try to look especially put together) and make it on campus all stress free. This was a challenge, i felt stressed, and i wasn't even sure what i needed to bring or where i should go.

I walked into the teacher's lounge both nervous and excited at the same time. I was glad i was getting the formative over with, but at the same time wanted to hear what things i needed to work on. My supervisor began as always with a big smile and asking me how i was doing. After saying great and returning a smile, she began with saying that i am doing well, i always have a smile on my face, and many other amazing things that really made me happy.

However the praise was put to a pause when my master teacher walked into the lounge, now i was extremely nervous, fists clenched, i awaited some kind of list of things i needed to work on. To my shock, my master teacher only had extremely positive things to say to me such as "i am a go getter, i'm always prepared, driven, and always looking to see what i can do" she even ended her part of the formative by saying, "this girl is going to get somewhere because she wants it that bad". This meeting could not have gone any better in my opinion. Of course i asked what things i could work on and advice that either of them had. And just as anyone should i did receive feedback such as classroom management, and time management. Both of these are pretty typical areas to work on as a new teacher.

Overall, the gloomy day turned into a very nice day. Where i thought i was going to get put down and embarrassed i was actually praised and although still embarrassed, it was in a good way. I look forward to working on the areas of improvement that i need to focus on and am extremely proud to say that i have so far been successful in student teaching!