Practicum Plan

When developing my practicum plan, I developed three main learning goals. I felt that the three were very important for me to grow as an educator. The first goal was organization. I felt that I was unorganized with my education assignments (lesson plans etc) and needed to become organized better. To do this, I created a binder with my assignments, classroom handouts, lesson plans and any thing else I feel will help me with my growth as a teacher.

Another learning goal I had was clasroom management. During the fall, I felt that I did not have great classroom management and needed to work on this. To do this, I have used methods from Education 401. Also, being in the classroom more often has allowed me to gain more respect and have better classroom management, as the students have gotten more respect and familiar with me.

My final goal was time management. This was important to me because during the fall I created lessons that did not take up the entire period. I have been extremely successful with creating lessons that last an entire period. I have discussed this with my teacher (the most out of the 3 learning goals) and he has helped me with various worksheets and ideas to extend the lesson for the full period. Being in the school longer and creating more lessons this semester than previous semesters has allowed me to understand how in depth and long my lesson plans should be. I feel that I have learned the most from creating this goal and it has helped me the most as well.