Mary



Over the course of this class, I feel that my professional presence has started to come together. At the beginning of this class I felt, and still do, pretty good about my ability to fill out a application, plan a lesson, anything that requires thinking about teaching and writing down. However in my first teaching demo, we all observed that when actually teaching in front of a class my presence was less than stellar. Throughout the rest of this semester working on being encouraging, engaging, and just generally approachable in front of the class. After my lesson at Garry, my supervisor told me that while I was sitting in front talking I was pretty monotone, but when I was walking around she was much more impressed. Now I know that I won't be one of those teachers who sits in front and talk, in fact I doubt I'll find much use for my desk.