When I look back at the beginning of my Masters Program, I had very high ambitions for myself and my future goals. I was asked to write a professional goals statement about what I had hoped to accomplish throughout my journey in this program. What I realized, looking back at it, was that I frustrated with a few things that I had encountered in the short amount of time I was exposed to the classroom. I had completed my student teaching in a very low income area where a lot of classrooms were filled with struggling readers. Having had this be my first classroom experience, I decided to focus my Masters
degree with a concentration on Literacy.
With only have about six weeks left until I have had completed all of my courses; I am forced to reflect on what I have learned and how my ideas have changed. I have gained a lot of great strategies, tools, ideas, methods and experiences with all of the courses. I have brought ideas with technology and instruction into my classrooms as well as formed professional connections with my classmates. With each course I was able to take something back to my teaching and use it to more effectively instruct the variety of learners that have and will be entering into my classroom.
What I have realized, though, is that I cannot control a lot of what happens too. With each year, there will be new mandates, laws, goals, deadlines and assessments. Each year there will be new students who walk into my room and some may have little to no help from parents, lack motivation or just “hate” to read and write. But I have learned through this process that I have no power over that. What I do know is that I have the power use the tools I have been given through this Masters program to be the best instructor I know
how to be.
-Natalie DePonio
degree with a concentration on Literacy.
With only have about six weeks left until I have had completed all of my courses; I am forced to reflect on what I have learned and how my ideas have changed. I have gained a lot of great strategies, tools, ideas, methods and experiences with all of the courses. I have brought ideas with technology and instruction into my classrooms as well as formed professional connections with my classmates. With each course I was able to take something back to my teaching and use it to more effectively instruct the variety of learners that have and will be entering into my classroom.
What I have realized, though, is that I cannot control a lot of what happens too. With each year, there will be new mandates, laws, goals, deadlines and assessments. Each year there will be new students who walk into my room and some may have little to no help from parents, lack motivation or just “hate” to read and write. But I have learned through this process that I have no power over that. What I do know is that I have the power use the tools I have been given through this Masters program to be the best instructor I know
how to be.
-Natalie DePonio