My Teaching Experience from Student to Professional with Lesson Plans

All About Me

Salut!

Je m’appelle Miss Teach et je suis prof de français! That says that I finally landed myself a job as a teacher. I am proud to have completed my Master’s program- the inspiration for this blog was the “Summer Practicum” (2007), and I continued it through my student teaching (Spring 2008) and now it will follow my professional educator’s career (from Fall 08 and on). I’m here to share the whole thing to hopefully provide insight, wisdom, humor, misery, sympathy- anything that comes with learning to be an effective teacher.

My background and motivation:

I adore French and foreign languages. I love quality websites and wanted to start one since day one of my Masters degree. I also have a website that provides exposure to modern French (slang, verlan, colloquialisms, etcetera) that I’m actually transforming into more of an educational French-learning site. This website is where I want to share my personal experience of pre-teaching, student teaching, and any other information I come across.

I have studied French since I first could (8th grade), so that makes it over a decade and then some. Teaching French has helped me keep up on my French, but going to France would be better! I realize I need to work harder on keeping up with my French and the culture!

I went to France for two weeks after junior year of High School and loved it!!! I knew I had to major in French so I could study abroad. During college, I did have the delightful opportunity to do a whole year there- in Angers first semester, and in Paris! the second semester. I did an internship in an art studio where I even read stories to French children- in French, and painted with other French adults. So many great experiences!

I decided to major in French in college and to pursue further study in Education so I could teach it to share my love of it. I finished my Masters of Education in May 2008 and obtained a teaching certificate in the prestigious state of Pennsylvania! I survived a first year full of ups and downs and realized teaching is a more-than-full-time job! I intend to continue to share my thoughts, ideas, and lesson plans and materials for teaching French as I go through my second year of teaching 3 levels of high-school French.

Merci pour visiter!

• Pages here

  • About Me and this site
    • All About Me
  • Alternative Assessment Methods
  • Bandura & Self-Efficacy
  • Bandura’s Social Learning Theory
  • Behaviorism
  • Bloom’s Taxonomy
  • Bridging, Variation, and Choice (Style Differentiated Instruction) when using Gregorc’s 4 learning styles
  • Cognitive Development
    • Information Processing Theory (IPT)
    • Motivation Theory
    • Vygotsky’s Social-Cultural Theory
  • Cognitivism
  • Considerations when Planning Instruction
  • Constructivism
  • Direct vs. Indirect Instruction
  • Educational Lingo
  • Emotional Intelligence or “EQ”
  • Gregorc’s 4 Learning Styles
  • Learning Difficulties in 4 Categories
  • Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
  • Multiculturalism vs. Mass Individualism
  • Research Based Instructional Strategies
  • Social forces
  • Social, Emotional, Physical, and Cognitive Development
  • Social-Emotional Development
    • Erikson’s Psycho-Social Development Theory
  • Theories from the Philosophical Roots of Education
  • Tips for maintaining gender fairness in the classroom
  • Vygotsky
  • Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development
  • What is the situation of Diversity in the current Teaching Force in America?
  • What It Takes To Be A Teacher

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