Week 5 Reflection

This week started out as expected, with students in Geometry taking their first test on Monday. I was anxious to see how they performed on the test and excited to begin a new unit on Logic the rest of the week.

This all quickly, and quite drastically, changed. I suddenly became sick on Monday, which proved to alter all good intentions and plans for the rest of the week. I ended up missing school from Tuesday-Friday. I wish I could say that this gave me time to work on assignments instead of lay in bed, but unfortunately I feel like I lost a week of my teaching experience and life with the doomed sickness.

I had planned to begin my Action Research with Pre-Tests and Pre-Surveys on Tuesday and Wednesday with three different Geometry Classes. I was also intending to introduce the new Unit and begin teaching about inductive reasoning. Lucky for me, I have a wonderful host teacher who is always supportive in my plans and assignments. She wonderfully picked things up for me and had students complete the pre-tests and pre-surveys and completed the first section on content with the classes. Due to her cooperation, I will finally have my first pieces of data for my Action Research.

Throughout the week I was gone, I was extremely grateful for the cooperation of my host teacher and my coordinator. They were both incredibly understanding and Mrs. Tucker’s willingness to use the lessons I had prepared and make sure my Action Research got off to the right start by giving students the pre-test allowed me to have much less to worry about.

In the upcoming week, I plan to teach more lessons from chapter 2, which introduce symbolic logic. Additionally, I will present my students with math prompts and review their journal entries and reactions as part of my Action Research. I will also video tape my lessons and hopefully gather all of my paperwork together so I can be completely caught up from the time that I missed!