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After being an elementary education and special education major at Ball State University, I have had many new teaching experiences. This semester, I was given the opportunity to teach at Burris Laboratory School. It was great to observe a classroom with a teacher who had been teaching for so long! Although I know there will be challenges, I want to continue in the teaching program. EDEL 200 has allowed many experiences that has shown me how to be a successful teacher.

I will continue in the teaching program since I enjoyed working on my activity plans throughout the semester as well as applying what I learned when working with my students. I want to continue in the teaching program in order to gain the necessary skills to become a successful …show more content…

Specifically, I was able to emphasize the Social Competencies, such as Planning and Decision Making (32) through my activities. I would give the students a task and their job was to plan how they would personalize the activity. Additionally, the students had to make multiple decisions on what colors and materials to use. A Commitment to Learning was emphasized through Achievement Motivation (21). Through EDEL 200, this was seen when teaching at Burris because the activity would always begin with a motivation for the students to get excited about the project! Overall, building Internal Assets is significant and is required as a …show more content…

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