Halfway Point

I have reached the mid-way point for my student teaching internship! By now I am teaching pretty much the whole day (with assistance from the teacher). It is going pretty well, but is crazy busy and my tendency to procrastinate is not helping me any! My Comprehensive Exam (required for my degree) is complete, and I am just awaiting results. I now have to focus on completing my Professional Portfolio in addition to all the requirements the teaching part of student teaching brings. Busy, busy, busy!

One of the things that I had to do as part of my student teaching requirements was to create some sort of behavior plan. I decided to create a tree on poster board and cut out lots of leaves from green paper. When I want to reward a student for good behavior, I give them a leaf with their name and a short description written on it (examples include, "good behavior in the hall" and "clean desk award"). The leaf is then taped on the tree. Once all the leaves are on the tree, the whole class will get a reward! The plan right now is to allow them to eat their lunch in the classroom while watching a movie (and I will probably bring in some cookies or something as well). You can see a picture of my tree, that I took before any leaves were added, below. If you can't see it, the writing says, "Together we're growing in GREAT BEHAVIOR!"