Rationale 1:
Reflection on Changed Placement
The first part of my student teaching experience did not go as planned. For many reasons, Westminster College pulled me from my first placement and placed me at a school that was far more in line with their teaching philosophy. Seeing this hard situation as a learning opportunity, I created a document (See PDF) that listed everything I learned at my first placement. While this experience was quite difficult, the lessons I learned were invaluable and will forever inform my future teaching career. It should also be noted that this reflection is a snapshot in time and my teaching philosophy has since evolved and been refined.
Rationale 2:
Tutoring at the Sandy Club
For our Literacy Assessment and Intervention class taken at Westminster College, we were given the opportunity to tutor children at the Sandy Club’s after school program. As part of that program we compiled detailed notes on how each tutoring session went and used those notes to plan the next session with each of the students we were assigned. As we looked over our notes, we were able to gain practice in the art of reflecting on the effectiveness of our methods regularly to continually improve and refine our tutoring methods. After the semester finished and the requirements were met, I chose to stay on tutoring at the Sandy Club where I tutored 14 other students over the summer using the same methods used during our class. The spreadsheets chosen as my artifact display some of the evidence collected that allowed me to adapt my practice so that I could better meet the needs of each learner. I plan to continue to collect and reflect on data and student performance in order to enhance my practice in my future teaching career.
Standard 8 Reflection and Continuous Growth
© William Eggington 2019
The teacher is a reflective practitioner who uses
evidence to continually evaluate and adapt practice to
meet the needs of each learner.
Mr.Eggington
© William Eggington 2018
