Pre-Departure
I am leaving for Barcelona in less than a month and I am growing excited about many things. I think I have grown more as an educator during my student teaching than I have throughout the rest of my college experience combined. The opportunity to teach, experiment and reflect on my lessons during student teaching has made me a much more effective educator. So, when asked what I am looking forward to the most about student teaching in Spain, my answer is the chance to practice teaching in a new environment and to learn about new resources/methods I can use in the future. In each school I have been placed at throughout my experience at WKU, I have learned about new resources and teaching methods. Working in a school in a new country will likely give me the opportunity to learn about teaching methods and resources that I have yet to see. It may also be interesting to see what methods of classroom management and instruction are similar to practices i have seen in Kentucky. Before having m