I think that this week was my "coming out" party as a teacher. It was something simple, yet according to my host teacher, it marked the beginning of me being a more complete teacher.
When teaching my Math 1 class about absolute value functions, I was reminded of something that my host teacher did last year. I told the students that, when there is a negative value equal to just an absolute value, there should be an alarm going off, as that is not possible. What made this lesson truly my own was the fact that I gave the alarm a specific sound. My teacher has a train whistle in her desk, so I decided to surprise the students and blew it as the alarm. The students loved it! I hope that from now on, whenever they see a situation like that, they will think of Mr. Butler and the train whistle.
According to my host teacher, that was good as it let my personality show in my instruction, which is a necessity. What also helped was the fact that I was being observed that day, so I think that varying the instruction a bit reflected well on me.
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