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  Candidate Name: Caitlyn Hamrick Week of Reflection: September 20, 2024      Rate your overall experience of the week: 1-Very difficult | 5 – Great week I would rate my overall experience as a 3.5 because it still feels like I am on a slippery slope and cannot get things in the aligned way that I want them to be no matter how many late nights or early mornings I pull. I am doing simply what I can and the chips may fall where they fall. I do feel like I am learning alot, and I feel that I am really getting to the point that I have a bond with my students and with some of the other staff and faculty at the school. I really do love the teachers, the students, and the environment at the school, and I know it will break my heart to leave it when the time comes to say goodbye. Seven questions to end your week: Observe : What pleasant surprises / accomplishments did I achieve this week? My greatest accomplishments this week would be receiving 3 job offers, and I had to bas...

  Rate your overall experience of the week: 1-Very difficult | 5 – Great week (3) Seven questions to end your week: Observe : What pleasant surprises / accomplishments did I achieve this week? Some of my most pleasant surprises this week would be seeing some of my students showing growth and understanding that strong new connections are forming in their brain. For example, one of my students was really concerned at the very beginning of the year. Anything that I passed to her, it seemed that it overwhelmed her. She wanted so bad to be able to figure it out, and when the pieces did not click, she would end up crying. She has really shown great growth this week. When I watch her during my math lessons, she is maintaining eye contact with me and really taking in my instructions. When I come over to check her work in between, her work shows that she is copying everything I do and trying to go above and beyond. She takes in every tiny step. She still has much growth to make, but wheneve...

  Candidate Name: Caitlyn Hamrick Week of Reflection: September 6, 2024 Rating overall experience of the week: 4 Observe: Pleasant Surprises/Accomplishments Achieved  This week my greatest accomplishments would be taking on another core subject, Wit & Wisdom. That was alot, and though the lessons do not always go exactly how I plan and intend for them to go, I am learning alot about what would have made the lesson better and I can improve upon next time. I also completed by first observation this week. That was very nerve wracking and overwhelming. I poured over that lesson plan over and over because I wanted it to be just perfect! It did not go like I planned, but I finding that it seems more typial for lessons to not go as planned than to go as planned because no matter how much you try to plan for it and avoid it, there is always something unexpected. From the feedback I received though, the lesson went really well. I also really loved the video that I showed my student...