Prompt #7

This experience has been a great experience to shape my teaching identitiy. This is because I was placed in a classroom with such a diverse setting. This is a classroom experience that I would not have had if I were to be placed in another school setting. And because of this unusual school setting around me i have become a different teacher because i now can understand how to talk to all children no matter sex, age, race, ethnicity, culture background, and even the different speaking language students. I am not saying that now I can just talk to them because I could before, but now I can actually help them and teach them not by just giving the children the information they need. But by actuallly teaching them with all of the new methods I have learned. Before this tutoring experience if i were placed in a room with 20 ESL/ELL students and i were to teach all alone i would have totally been lost and not have known how to handle it at all. But now after this experience if i were placed in that same classroom of 20 ESL/ELL students i feel that i would have the courage and the ability to teach an entire lesson and also do my best to get the children to understand it through different approaches. Another thing  that i have learned first hand from this experience and that shaped my teacher identity is how many dfferent learening paces there are in that one classroom. One student can be done in 1 minute and another in 10 minutes but as the teacher i must constantly be trying to get the students to understand the concepts of what is being taught. Something that will always stat with me and my teacher identity is the importance of listening and following the rules. The reason for this is because in the first weeks of the volunteering the children in my class were out of control bbut after the teacher started giving penalties for misbehaved kids and always emphasized on listening and following directions the class sudeenly became more productive. And also from my own point of view I believce they learned more and enjoyed doing the work more because they were actually paying attention and know hoe to do the work instead of just holding it off and not doing anything. So this experience has definately shaped my entire teacher identitiy because i did not have much of a teacher identity prior to this experience.