Quick thought

Because I have been mainly observing for the first few days of school, I have been using my time in the periphery of the classroom to form relationships with the students. The first assignment for the Language Arts students was to create a bio-poem. After observing my cooperating teacher instruct the first two periods of Language Arts, I helped her to explain the instructions to the third period. When I was put on the spot, I felt as though I needed immediate feedback from my students. It seemed that as soon as a sentence came out of my mouth, I looked to my students for feedback or, at the very least, a nod. It was reaffirming to see the look of understanding appear on their faces as I went through the poem’s instructions line by line. At first, I was afraid that my delivery would seem stilted, but, in fact, I was able to speak fluidly. As we went through the poem, I asked students to provide examples of traits (adjectives).