I think Tray was one of my favorite speakers this semester.  Mostly because I'm a little nervous for my student teaching experience.  I just wanted to know what someone else had experienced and how things worked for them.  I appreciated the fact that his experience maybe wasn't the best that's OK, because it showed me that even though your experience may not be ideal you can work through it. 

I also appreciated the lesson plans that he allowed us to borrow.  He had several very good ideas and I hope to try some of them out.  I especially would like to try the letter monsters those looked really cool and like they were a lot of fun to create.

I'm still not really sure what will be expected of me during student teaching, but I do understand that it will be a lot of work.  I had been planning on creating several lessons over the summer to help me prepare for student teaching.  After hearing him talk I will be creating even more lessons than I had originally planned. I will also be getting a few books to help inspire some projects.  Stout teaches you a lot of fine art techniques, but I know there are materials and techniques that aren't taught here that I would like to teach to my students such as calligraphy or weaving. 

Student teaching sounds like a lot of work, but a great learning experience.  I'm looking forward to it with excitement and trepidation.