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My Observation Of A Post Secondary Transition/Education Program

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Observing classrooms this past semester had made me more excited than ever to become a teacher. The first couple of time I walked into a classrooms, I walked in not knowing what I should be doing. As the semester progressed, I witnessed the bond students form with their teachers, each classroom had intrigued me into knowing more about not what to teach, but how to teach. I saw skills that I liked and disliked, and a couple tricks that I ended up using for presentations in my other classes. My first experience with observing a classroom was through Plainfield district 202 observing a Post Secondary Transition/Educational Program, or P-STEP class grades 12+ at Joliet Junior College. There I observed David Sylvester teach a small group of student. …show more content…

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