Hailey

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This semester has been a huge learning experience for me. I have gone from "one day i'll know how to teach" to "I could (roughly) go up and teach if I needed to". I feel confident in my skills in lesson planning, and I can actually see the progress I have made, from my demos and my introductions/ reviews. I started this semester with no real knowledge about different kinds of lessons, and now I feel like my professional toolbox is full of strategies and ways to teach lessons now. My mindset has also changed from "i'm a student" to "i'm a teacher in training". I can see myself thinking differently about classes and about teaching, closer to a teacher perspective than a student one. At the beginning of the semester we did an activity where we looked at a building, and then heard about the building from an expert on buildings. I can see the relevance of that lesson know, and see how I am starting to build my toolbox to be able to see aspects of a lesson through expert teacher "lenses".