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    The document summarizes the experiences and growth of Ajanae Peterson as a teacher's aide over two years. It discusses how she became more confident in her teaching abilities and learned to take criticism well. It also highlights how she learned that all students learn differently and developed strategies to engage students and help them learn, such as reading to them and finding different ways to explain concepts. Overall, the experience helped prepare Ajanae for her own future classroom.

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    The document summarizes the experiences and growth of Ajanae Peterson as a teacher's aide over two years. It discusses how she became more confident in her teaching abilities and learned to take criticism well. It also highlights how she learned that all students learn differently and developed strategies to engage students and help them learn, such as reading to them and finding different ways to explain concepts. Overall, the experience helped prepare Ajanae for her own future classroom.

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    Ajanae Peterson

    5/15/2023

    4th 9 Weeks

    Saegert Elementary /Saiz/2nd grade

    2:28pm-

    As I conclude my final week being a teacher's aide, I have experienced personal growth

    not only as a student intern but also as a professional instructor's aide. From my first year as

    teachers intern, I was nervous about my capabilities, my confidence and the strength of being

    strict with kids. As I continued with the program, I learned all the ins and outs of the teaching

    field within my two years. I am extremely grateful for my teachers who showed me all the great

    opportunities there were within the career of teaching. I have learned that it is okay to have

    setbacks with pushing lessons back to get a better understanding of the TEKS, finding a different

    way to not only get the students to understand but also have the students be able to retaliate over

    the subject being taught. I have seen self-growth with being able to not hold the students' hand

    while they work, learning how to not get over stimulated while teaching my lesson and most

    importantly not being afraid to make a mistake.

    Growing as an individual came with a lot of taking criticism, with being able to hear

    someone else's point of view to taking notice of how the teacher instructed, and disciplined the

    classroom then later reapply it to my way of teaching. I believe in an area every educator needs

    to feel confident in, is being able to take criticism well and connect it to your role, and not to

    yourself. Being able to intake these things as an educator is a skill asset to possess. Something I

    learned throughout my years of being a teacher's aide is that each student has their own way of
    learning, students who are lower in reading are extremely talented, it just takes time to figure out

    how they learn. My teacher stated, “every child can learn you just have to find out how they

    learn it.”

    This made me feel more inspired to be involved with teaching students, working with

    them and guiding them. I started to be more attentive with helping students with reading and

    recalling information, I started to read to the students so they can hear I pronounce words and see

    how I pronounce them as well. I used to sit in the classroom waiting for the teacher to give me

    instructions to teach the students after time I started to branch out by first asking what the

    students are doing then asking if they understand it then start easing my way into assisting the

    classroom. As I slowly started to feel more comfortable in the classroom after time, the last day

    of field sites came closer than I expected I became more active with doing fun games with math

    and reading.

    Which brought me closer to the students along with my teacher something I will always

    cherish is the never-ending moments of seeing the students understand not only my lessons but

    the teachers lesson as well, with my small group I was able to take an opportunity of working

    deeper into the student learning way by re-wording the question or asking them how would you

    solve this problem. By me doing that I was able to work on me not hold the student's hand while

    also seeing how the student works on their own. As my last year of being a teacher aide finalizes,

    I will take all the criticism, setbacks and the never-ending moments of seeing the light bulb of

    the students understanding and further apply it to my future classroom.

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