Professional Developement

I think that the one thing that I need to work on would definitely be my classroom management.  The one thing I need to do in order to be better at this is to follow through with my disciplining.  I usually give the student a warning and the next time that they talk they will get a detention.  The first warning usually quiets them for the rest of the period.  There have been some times where the student has talked and I haven't given any discipline for it.  I can definitely tell that that has had an effect on my classroom after that.  My warnings aren't carrying anymore weight and the kids.  They'll just keep talking.  I have given a couple of detentions but that hasn't quite worked either though.  So in the future I need to be more consistent with my disciplining and carry out on the punishments.  If classroom isn't where I want it to be, I need to be a more assertive and get it where I want it to be.

Another area I need to work on is the diversity of the ways I teach my lessons.  Right now I usually have just one way of explaining things to my students.  If a student doesn't really get it right away, I have have a hard time of trying to explain it in a different way.  I do think that this will just come with more time teaching and experience.  Another thing that I can do to get better at this also is to do a little research on the topic before I start teaching it.  This could get a couple more ideas in my head for that topic so that all the students can learn from the lesson.