Video Blog 2

I will begin by saying that I feel like I have improved a lot over the summer as a teacher.  I am a much more confident teacher than the bumbling, nervous teacher I was at the beginning of the summer.  This was indicated in the video, as I seemed more sure of myself than before.  I had more "presence" if that makes any sense. 

One specific thing I noticed that I improved on was moving around the room.  In the June video I noticed that I was pacing at the front of the room a lot, but there was very little movement around the entire room.  I noticed that I did much better with this in the second video.  By moving around the room I was able to make the lesson less about me and more about the students. 

One specific thing I noticed that I did wrong was actually pointed out to me by another teacher who was watching the video with me.  I thought little of completely turning my back to the entire room as I was writing the bellringer on the board since I was doing this before class had officially started.  Carmen Jones pointed out to me that kids are going to be doing stuff behind my back even if it is before class.  I definitely need to do better with writing on the board like that with my back completely turned. 

I do feel that I was entertaining and made the lesson fun.  I sounded enthusiastic and did a good job of getting all my students involved in the lesson.  Once again, I have to do better with consistency in classroom discipline, but overall I feel like I did pretty well.  We will see how things work out in the fall.