IdentityI have had a teaching experience of 10+ year. During my student teaching experience, I spent a lot of time preparing each lesson plan. I worked hard to research different ways to present the information for each lesson. I looked for activities that my students would enjoy, and I made sure that I had all of the materials and other things that I needed before class started. Another surprising aspect is that I am confident in the knowledge I have to convey to my students in the classes I have taught. As a student I was always impressed by the seemingly endless pool of knowledge my professors were able to draw on in lecture. Many times in teaching my students have had interesting and surprising questions about the content which I was able to answer, or at the very least speculate upon.
In high school, I had a teacher who always encouraged us to dare to disturb the universe as quoted from T.S. Eliots poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. To me, this meant that we shouldnt be afraid to do something different or to think outside of the box. When it came to student teaching, I found that I needed to listen to this advice again. I wanted to excel. I wanted to get great recommendations from my cooperating teacher, and I wanted my students to really learn the concepts.
