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Students appear to be getting comfortable with the expectations of my classroom as they are listening better and not trying to get away with as many careless choices as they had in previous weeks. However, on Wednesday during my 2 nd period, I had to write up my first students for acting in a manner disrespectful to authority. While running the PACER test, I had to penalize three of my students for leaving the start line prior to the sound of the bell. When I called out the three students, one of them decided to turn toward my direction, raise his arm, and flip his middle finger at me. Immediately seeing this action, I called out his name and told him to come over by me and that his PACER was finished and had a conversation with him about why he felt that the action he chose to make was a proper action to make in class. The student would not admit the action was toward me but rather was toward the group of students there were waiting to run the PACER in the next heat. I told the ...

Week 13 of Student Teaching was incredibly long and tiring. My 10 th -grade classroom is nearing the end of their fitness unit and is ready for it to end. My cooperating teacher for these classes is doing a great job of allowing me to head the classes on my own and letting me experiment with new fitness ideas and concepts not typically performed in the classroom. This week I implemented cardio kickboxing on Tuesday via a video projection with instruction from myself. Unfortunately, the classes with video projections have not gone over as smoothly as I had anticipated. In my 2 nd period, the sophomores did a great job of following the video routine, however, the enthusiasm was sorely lacking, which was a surprise for me. I honestly thought the idea of kickboxing would be much more widely accepted by the students than it was. My 7th-hour class was not able to process the video as quickly as the 2 nd hour, nor did they demonstrate any enthusiasm as well. However, I do believe this was...

School was on Spring Break this week.