Career Path
If I am to follow the career path of my mentor, I have to continue to work hard in school and be patient. It will take a long time and a lot of schooling to be the type of teacher with the right type of credentials that I want to be. I also need to continually observe the different ways people learn. Mrs. Brooksher is always trying to be more creative and more engaging in her teaching, and she is always trying new ways of teaching that she thinks will affect how much specific types of students are learning more. This is something I currently do with my teachers and Mrs. Brooksher. I try to look for new things that my teachers are doing to engage the class more, and continuing to do that will help me become a very great teacher.
Workload
Mrs. Brooksher told me what a middle school faculty is like: a few people do a lot of the work. The work may be directly associated with curriculum or some of it can be extracurricular. Whichever the type of work, I have noticed that what she told me is true. The teachers that do most of the work and are more involved in the school are usually the most experienced teachers who have been within the school system for a long time, and this makes sense. Mrs. Brooksher warned about getting involved in too many extra things in a school when I begin my career as a teacher. She told me that beginning teachers should be focused on being able to control a classroom and effectively teaching their students. Only after a couples years should be when teacher decide to get involved with all the "extra stuff" that goes along with being a teacher.
Tasks
The task that I am most excited for when I become a teacher is the "Ta-da!" moments that students feel when they finally understand a topic that they are struggling with. I feel like those are the moments that make being a teacher all the worth while, and that the quality of a teacher is measured by the ability to find those "Ta-da!" moments in any student. The tasks that do not seem all that fun are things like staff meetings, following a large, strict, and detailed curriculum in a year, dealing with students that are in big trouble, and filling out paperwork.
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Interpersonal Skills at My Mentorship
Culture/Collegiality
Different teachers and other employees are always helping each other out at my mentorship. Most of the time, this interaction is between teachers within the same department. The math teachers are always working together by sharing lesson plans and ideas, planning a unit, and creating tests and quizzes. Teachers from other departments interact together by watching each others classes when one of them needs a restroom break. All teachers also interact with other employees, such as the janitors. The teachers always try to show their thanks in some way to the janitors for the hard work that they do. The employees are very sociable, and they do not always discuss about their jobs. These are the kinds of employees that I would like to work with. I would like to work with someone who would help me out with my job while also being able to casually talk to me.
Collaboration
Teachers within the same department constantly collaborate. They plan out the year and plan out how to improve CRCT scores. They also create quizzes and tests together, and they discuss which classes students should be placed in. Teachers from other departments also work together to plan out the events of the year and to plan out how to improve test scores.
Mentoring
I have seen both formal and informal mentoring at my mentorship. There have been times when teachers that have been teaching for a while are in the teacher workroom and give advice to newer teachers about how they teach a specific topic or how they handle with a specific type of student. I have also seen this happen the other way around. There have been times when newer teacher give advice to more experienced teachers. Sometimes, the mentoring is more formal. There has been a time when a new teacher that is still learning has sit in on my mentor's class and observed how she handles classroom environment. There is always mentoring going on at the middle school.
Different teachers and other employees are always helping each other out at my mentorship. Most of the time, this interaction is between teachers within the same department. The math teachers are always working together by sharing lesson plans and ideas, planning a unit, and creating tests and quizzes. Teachers from other departments interact together by watching each others classes when one of them needs a restroom break. All teachers also interact with other employees, such as the janitors. The teachers always try to show their thanks in some way to the janitors for the hard work that they do. The employees are very sociable, and they do not always discuss about their jobs. These are the kinds of employees that I would like to work with. I would like to work with someone who would help me out with my job while also being able to casually talk to me.
Collaboration
Teachers within the same department constantly collaborate. They plan out the year and plan out how to improve CRCT scores. They also create quizzes and tests together, and they discuss which classes students should be placed in. Teachers from other departments also work together to plan out the events of the year and to plan out how to improve test scores.
Mentoring
I have seen both formal and informal mentoring at my mentorship. There have been times when teachers that have been teaching for a while are in the teacher workroom and give advice to newer teachers about how they teach a specific topic or how they handle with a specific type of student. I have also seen this happen the other way around. There have been times when newer teacher give advice to more experienced teachers. Sometimes, the mentoring is more formal. There has been a time when a new teacher that is still learning has sit in on my mentor's class and observed how she handles classroom environment. There is always mentoring going on at the middle school.
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