Remington Landis

                Throughout my student teaching experience thus far I have had the opportunity to contemplate the answer to several great questions such as, “who are you as a teacher,” and “what is your work?” These questions are quite deep and require more than a few sentences to answer. When asked, “what is your work,” several things run through my mind. My students first and foremost, but also the planning and preparation, yet also the reflection time that is so needed in this profession all run though my mind. However, one other thing comes to my mind when contemplating who I am as a teacher and what exactly my work is. This is, the small moments. The small moments for me can be the most impactful in the life of a teacher. This could be because of the age I teach, or perhaps its just who I am as a person. In retrospect, thinking about my experiences thus far as an educator, the small moments have been the most impactful and are what remain with me to this day. And I hope that my students feel the same way. As an adult I can still remember the small moments I had with my teachers when I was young. Sometimes I feel as though all I remember are the little things. It’s not the equations we practiced everyday or the songs we sang daily, but instead those little conversations or the one-on-one moments are what stuck with me as a student. I hope that the moments I have with my students are impacting and shaping them in the same ways they are affecting me. To me, the most growth happens within these small moments. As I am growing as a teacher, my students are growing as learners and we are growing together as a community. Because I have been so moved by these small moments throughout my student teaching experience I have decided to use them to create an artifact. Throughout the course of this semester I have used an app called, “one second a day,” to document one small moment from every single day while student teaching. I have combined the 1-second pictures and videos from the first day this semester all the way to this past Tuesday, into a video. I have always been someone to try to capture and document everything and I feel as though this artifact shows my growth as a teacher and has helped to answer the question, “what is my work.” Some pictures and videos are of my students and others are of the preparation and materials we have use everyday, but, every picture has a story behind it. These small moments have made my semester and defined my experience student teaching. They have not only shaped who I am becoming as a teacher, but who my students are becoming as learners. These small moments are things that push me to be the teacher that I want to be, they are helping me to constantly push and grow myself as an educator.

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These small moments are who I am and what my work is, as a teacher.