Last Days of Field!

Our experience has come to an end and now it is time to head back to UVU and die from all the work we have due over the next few weeks. I have no idea where this semester went. It seems like it just flew by. I hated saying goodbye to our class. They just fueled my desire to become a teacher. I know that I am very capable and I will work hard to reach graduation. Our cooperating teacher was wonderful, I couldn't have asked for a better placement. She let us try everything and answered every question. Everything I have learned this semester has been so beneficial I love actually being in the program because so many times in college you feel like you are just jumping through hoops but know every class is taking me one step closer to my dream and I am so excited to meet my future students. I have missed my amazing cohort they have been such a strength for me along with the amazing staff at UVU. I honestly wake up every morning so excited to go to school and even though at times the course load seems like a lot and I want to pull out my hair I wouldn't change one minute. I can't wait to hear all about everyone's experience and get to work on my super awesome DIGITAL STORY! Doc Waters it is gonna be the BOMB! I hope at least we will see how smart my group is when it comes to using iMovie. That's all for now folks hope turkey day was great!

Field Experience to the MAX!!!

We were evaluated twice this week! Thank goodness that is over, field has been so wonderful so far. I feel truly lucky to be placed with Miss M. she is such a stellar teacher and I feel like I have learned so much from observing her. I love her classroom management techniques and has wonderful things to take with me into my future classroom. We finished up our unit on Mountain man and did a super fun Field Reporter Assessment which the class really loves. We will be doing a final mural as a unit assessment and the students seem very happy about that. We are having a Rendezvous next week and I know that will be a fun way to end our experience with the students. I must say that I miss my cohort and can't wait to hear about everyone's field. I feel very lucky with our experience because our cooperating teacher allowed us to help with all aspects of teaching. We taught PE, math groups, and science. We were able to just jump in and help with everything. Which opened our eyes to the full world of teaching. Miss M. was really helpful with answering any of our questions. And trust me we had a lot!

Evaluation!

So we were getting really nervous because our time is coming to an end in field and we weren't being evaluated! But today was our day! It was so nice we didn't know he was coming because it didn't give us time to stress. We had such a fun lesson planned today, our Socratic seminar on mountain men! Me and Miss Brittany had such cool artifacts and we even dressed up like real live mountain women. The class really enjoyed it and our evaluator said it went so well! Everything just really clicked and I was so happy and just had to share it with everyone!

Field Experience Week 2

Sooooo Anyone Heard of H1N1 well, elementary schools are a great place to get it if you haven't heard. Yes, that's right my second week in the classroom I got the Swine! I have a fever that wont go away and my chest feels like ice. So I have missed class for a few days because the teacher doesn't want me to go back to class till I get feeling better. Before I left me and Brittany did a few of our lesson plans and had some really good teaching experiences with our class. They did their 4th grade program for the parents on Tuesday... Utah... This is the Place! I was so proud of them, they were really nervous and I didn't think they were going to pull it off, but they sure did and they all seemed really proud of themselves when they were done. We did our concept attainment lesson plan and I think it went really well. We are really lucky to have such a great class they think that it is really cool to have us in their class so they behave really well. In science we are starting to work on animal brochures which was really cool because we got to bring the technology into the classroom and every pair got their own laptop and they were able to research different animals found all over the world. Students got so excited to be given the chance to work on a laptop, it was so fun to be able to help them explore the WWW. We are really starting to get into the swing of things with our class. I can't wait to get better so I can return to school, 3 students were home sick today and another student left. Next week we have many fun creative lessons planned with some pretty sweet primary sources. Stay tuned for the update to follow! I am loving field and I can't wait to see what happens next.

Week 1 of My Amazing Field Experience

School: Herriman Elementary

Grade:4th

Partner: Brittany D.

Week one has gone great! Our teacher really wants us to dig in and take charge, which I love. We are doing so much, helping them with their parents program, everyone remembers Utah, This is The Place... and the recorders. We are teaching Mountain Men and Spanish Explorers, creating animal brochures in science, helping review for math and spelling tests, and fun art lessons. Herriman is a year round school and that has made me think about and compare to the traditional school year. Our teacher is wonderful, it is her 3rd year teaching and she is known for her classroom management skills throughout the school. There are 15 boys and 13 girls in our class, they are very excited to learn and they love to talk and ask silly questions. There are many things that I have loved about being in the classroom, such as the excitement in the students eyes, actually getting to put into play what we have learned this semester. Our cooperating teacher is very chill and is really excited to have us in her room. We taught a really fun art lesson on what beauty means...? this week, I think the students really enjoyed it and it was nice to see them open up and be comfortable with us. I was very surprised because our class doesn't really have any diversity and their isn't one ELL in our class. It makes teaching so easy, I am so used to working with students in low SES areas and refugee's which brings in a language barrier into the learning but with this class they are all doing well. I am very excited to start teaching our Social Studies lessons, and I think the students are as well. Something I found interesting was how exactly the same the lessons are to when I was in school. I feel like when I am a teacher I will try to change things up and engage my students more in the learning but that is why we are out in the field now to see examples of teaching and tweek it to make it work for us in our future classroom!