Our field experience was awesome. Plain and simple. Our teacher was nice and accommodating and the students were responsive and active learners!
. Provide demographics of school, number of students in class and who your cooperating teacher is.
Our school is located in American Fork, Utah just a few blocks south of the Timpanogos Temple. The socioeconomic status of the area is mainly middle class. Our class had 27 students and it was almost exactly half and half boys and girls. Our cooperating teacher was Mrs. Wakefield.
a. How is your relationship with your cooperating teacher? Explain.
Our relationship with our teacher was great! She was very nice and actively concerned with making sure we had the best field experience possible. We had a couple of mis-communications on how we thought we planned our lessons. Sean and I planned our lessons together and then basically told her what we were going to do. I think she would have preferred to been part of the process. That's something I plan to do better on the next time I go to teach.
b. How does he/she feel about the technology piece you created?
When we told her that we were going to present a digital story she had no idea what we were talking about. :) After we had presented it though she really really liked it and I gave her the youtube address so that she can use it again next year when she does the same unit. She said that she liked it because it gave them a good overview of what we were about to teach before jumping into it. She liked that there were different pictures showing that even the same cloud type can look differently sometimes.
c. How does he/she feel about the lesson you completed?
The funny thing about our field experience was that we were only supposed to do 5 lessons but after we gave 2 of ours the teacher liked us so much that she asked if we could teach the whole unit. Slightly panicked...we accepted. So we had MANY opportunities to teach and get practice. Obviously she had suggestions for us at the end of each day and that helped us shape our future lessons to be better and better. We were flattered that she asked us for copies of handouts and lesson plans that we used because she had never thought to teach some of the things the way we did. Overall, she liked us and our lessons
We ended up using technology much more than I planned on it! We did our digital story but we also had many other opportunities to use technology. We had Mythbusters which they went nuts over! We also showed them weather forecast videos and google images. It really got them engaged! I think that children's (and everyone for that matter) lives are so infused with technology that it's what they respond to! As soon as that projector went on they were there with 100% attention. I loved this field experience because it showed me first hand how much students need to have technology in the classroom to learn!
No comments:
Post a Comment