week back after field

This week was hard getting back into the normal schedule of school just to get back off of school for Thanksgiving break. This week in class it was nice to be put into groups to do our webquest. When its this close to the end of the semester it is nice to be in group to divide the work up to get done fast. My group is great to work with we came up with an idea really fast. Divided up the work and got started. We hope to only have to work on it during class rather than take time out of our days to do it and try to get every one together. This semester has flown it wil soon be over with still a ton to get done. I hope to get caught up this week so when the end is here i can jsut turn it all in! All the other class are going well it was nice to have an extra week to work on some assignments in other classes because of thanksgiving. Thanksgiving wasn't very productive because I worked every day all day but it was nice that way because I didn't have work and school. Get a few extra hours in. The end of the semester is here I hope it all goes well!

Week 3 of field experience

WOW! I did it. I made it through the 3 weeks of 6th grade. I learned so much while I was at Salem elementary school in the 6th grade. I am so excited to keep going and to one day have my own classroom. Teachers are busy people I can't believe how much they have to get done in one day. Organization is key to alot of what takes place in a classroom. This experience was a huge eye opener to what I need to do as a teacher as well as how what I am learning at UVU applies in the classroom. The cooperating teacher was great! He gave great feedback to my lesson plans and gave me great resources to use as a teacher. He was great to work with and helped me to get out of my bubble and try new things that I might not had normally done. The students in the class were great kids they were patient with me and made it a really good time. I learned a lot from them as well . To see how 6th graders are again was good for me. It put me down to there level to plan lessons on what was interesting to them so they can learn and grow. I had a great partner she was great to work with and kept on top of things. When I messed up or lost what I was doing next she picked up the slack and it all worked out. I am glad that I had the opportunity to be in the classroom now rather than be thrown into a classroom for my student teaching. I hope that when i get back to classes at UVU I will be able to relate it back to some eperience I had in the classroom with the students I worked with.

WEEK 2 OF FIELD EXPERIENCE

WOW! This week was great we taught for our first time on Monday and on Tuesday. The lessons went great the studetns really enjoyed it. We taught geography for our lessons. Our advisor was there and gave us great feed back on how we could improve as well as what she saw that was goign well. We showed up on tuesday and Wednesday and there was a substitue teacher that we weren't expecting. It was actually really good for us, the sub handed the class over to us. We taught math and corrected homework and taught our lesson. The students were so good for us the students are really good kids. Like I said last week in my blog it is great to see the things we are learning in classes at UVU apply to the real classroom. In one of our lessons we talked about walls around the world and how we have walls in our own lives. I took pictures with my ditgital camera and put them on a power point to show to the students walls around Utah County. I posed the questions of why is it important that we have these walls and what purpose will it serve for us. The studetns loved to see the waslls and how they have walls around here so close. It really made it concrete for the students. The students then made a brick and we built a wall to show how we live in Utah and what our civilization is like. I am really enjoying my field experience. The teacher we are working with shares so many great ideas and resources for us and has taught so much to us. I am so glad that i am having this experience.

FIRST WEEK OF FIELD WORK

This week was crazy trying to get everything organized for field and being in the classroom. I am enjoying myself being in a sixth grade classoom. It is interesting to see how a sixth grade classroom is ran because when I was in sixth grade we were in middle school and had class periods, lockers, gym, etc. It is really different. At first I was against teh older gradeds didn't hink that i clicked well with them but over this last week I could see my self teaching teh older grades just as much as teh younger grades. The teacher that I am working with is great he loves his class adn job and it shows. He uses alot of technology in his classroom. He has an overhead projector that shows what ever is on teh computer as well as you can watch TV and movies on it. It is great it makes having power points and digital stories worth wild. It is so easy to show them and use those things in the classroom. This week already we saw how the technology is used in the classroom. The class is studying planets and space, each student was assigned a subject to make a power point on. The powermoint we saw was on Mars. It was great and the students really know their stuff when it comes to being computer savvy. It has been interesting to enter a classroom and see all that we have learned apply in the classroom. While in class you pretend and here how it is affective but when you are in an actual classroom it is great to see it all come together. I look forward to the next couple of weeks and how much more I will learn.

Week Before Field Experience!

This week in all classes we were loaded with all of our assignments for field. At first it seemed over whelming but all the teachers are great, they helped to break down the assignments so that we can take them one step at a time rather than all at once. I touched ground with my teacher I am working with to make sure we are still on for monday morning and all is set to go. I am looking forward to field experience to see all that we have learned taking placing. I am a little nervous to plan the lessons and teach them to 6th graders but it will be so good fo rme to get out of my bubble. I have met the students already and they are great they have such respect for their teacher I hope that I can demand that as well and that the students will be as good for me. I am making a list tonight of things that need to be taken care of while i am in field work jsut to make sure that everything gets done and in on time. WISH ME LUCK!!! ;)