Wow, I can't believe that this amazing year has come to an end. I was able to meet so many new faces and actually learn their names, although Maansi or Simran may remind you of a few that I still have a little trouble remembering :) The first time I came to this class I wasn't quite sure what to think. I had to learn around 56 new names and be organized and positive while doing it. Everyone was asking me where the other TAs have gone and I guess that I kind of felt like a bit of a replacement. However things got better and I learned a lot from this class. First of all I acquired that students don't always listen to you when you want them to. We have a lot of little quirky personalities in this class that sometimes can be a little problem, like when I constantly ask the boys to put the basketball away at the beginning of class every single day, including the last day of school. Nevertheless, I learned to work around it and actually felt like I had made a bit of an impact within this class. I learned how it feels for students to only do work when you are looking and then goof off when you aren't there because they just want the extra mark. I've seen it when my teacher leaves and it disappoints me a bit just because I know that they are so much more than that and are capable of learning why we are here. Then there are the little positives in the class, the quiet ones. They are the reason that I keep on going because I want them to enjoy gym as much as I do. I feel like I changed the views on gym for some of the girls too, that gym doesn't have to be about domination or only doing sports. I remember one of them coming up to me and telling me how they loved an all girls yoga class or going up on the field with me to do field hockey. I sincerely hope that I have changed maybe a bit of their thinking as the semester (or year for them) comes to an end. As for the ones that haven't, I hope that they realize why we are here and participate in the PE sometime in their high school life. I also know that I have improved on my fitness because when I entered this course I was able to reach a 7.4 on the beep test and now I can have accomplished a 8.3!
I think that I deserve around a 92-95% range due to what I've learned throughout this course and what I've tried to teach.
and thank you for being my teacher :)
