I'm Kevin Hunter, a social studies major and an English minor. I chose those subjects because they were my best subjects in school, I enjoy them, and because I really enjoy stories, and both of them offer opportunities for storytelling. I am in Education 341, and in my English minor I have only the Brit/American lit class and the capstone left to take after this class. I am in the second quarter of my practicum at Cheney Middle School.
My strengths as a potential teacher are that I enjoy the subjects I teach and I feel confident that I will be knowledgeable in my subjects. I am also usually well-organized, and I am good about carefully planning ahead for things. I am also observant enough that I think I will be able to recognize when a plan isn't working and make adjustments. One of my weaknesses is that it is difficult for me to get very enthusiastic about the level of the material being taught in the middle school classes I have been placed in. I am not very interested in memorizing names and dates in social studies, and grammar is mostly boring to me. This suggests to me that a high school might be a better fit for me in the future, but until then I want to make sure I can still make these basics interesting to the students. Also, it is difficult for me to connect with a classroom of 30 people, and it is a challenge not to make lessons seem too impersonal without focusing too much on some students over others. I also want to improve at checking to see whether students understand instructions and the material they are trying to learn.
My goals for the course are to learn how to make a full unit plan and also hopefully to be able to work on my ability to clearly give instructions and expectations during the mini-lesson. I am also looking forward to integrating literature into my lessons.
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