7 April - Field Experience

Wow! I can't believe field experience is already over! It feels like I was just starting it. What can I say about field experience?? Well tons of course!! First off I wasn't exactly sure how it was going to pan out, I mean I have observed in classrooms before, but I have never actually taught, except in our classes at UV, and that has never been full out or with students who aren't on my same level academically. I was kind of nervous, just because I didn't know exactly what to expect, but once we met our cooperating teacher I knew we would all get along! Our cooperating teacher was really great, she really helped us out on figuring out our lesson plans, like what could go where and such, and she supported what we were doing and gave great feed back.
When planning and teaching our lessons during field experience we tried to incorporated as much technology into our lesson as we could. For a few of our lessons we used a digital story as well as a couple of movie clips. After watching the clips we asked the students questions so that we could tell if the students had actually been paying attention to the clip. Surprisingly after asking the questions we learned that the students had actually paid attention to the clips and had really enjoyed watching them! Which was great, because it just justified that bringing in media and technology into your classroom helps to bring a new excitement into the class as well as showing that the students really do pay attention to things that are being taught in your class. I think that in my future classroom I will definitely bring technology and media into my classroom to make it more fun and exciting!
I really love the kids in our class and am definitely going to miss them as well as our cooperating teacher that we worked with. It was a really great experience and opportunity this experience has helped me to really know that I do want to teach the lower grades and that I do really want to be a teacher. Its funny because going through school and with all of these classes that we are taking it kind of scares me, makes me second guess myself and wonder if I can really be a teacher. But with this field experience I know now know that I can be a teacher, and that one day I will be a great teacher!