This week our class was granted the opportunity to work with two grade 3 classes from Marysville Elementary to create stop motion videos. While we were there, we got to meet teachers, the principle, and the lovely students. The past few weeks I’ve felt very stressed, lost and there was lot of doubt in my mind about whether I am on the right path, but this experience made me feel very excited and confident that I am on the right track to being an excellent educator. This experience was very good for exposing me to the SD6 environment, where I haven’t spent much time. It was also a great way to get some teacher tips, fresh from the source, on classroom management, job applications, and becoming an excellent teacher. When thing I would have changed was maybe having more time because my group of students had some excellent ideas for our stop motion, but we were unable to execute all of it. I believe this is a very important experience for all teacher candidates and should be included in every course. In conclusion, if I were to do this again, I wouldn’t change much other than trying to get more time or even doing it in 2 sessions. I also would have liked to slow down at the beginning to do some work on learning names because I genuinely don’t remember one of my students’ names. Overall, a great experience and I’m looking forward to working in schools again in the future.
