Field Final Week

This is the final week of field. 


On Tuesday we helped with the Thanksgiving Party and gave a farewell lesson. It was kind of an emotional day for us.  All the students in the class wrote us thank you notes. These notes said what they liked most that we taught them. One girl that struggles wrote Mrs. Jones I am going to miss you ever since you came around to help me all of my grades have improved. When we first started working with this class she told us the students that struggled the most and had us go around and help them. She also told us last year this student had a her main teacher for Math and English and scored higher on Science which she rotated around to different teachers for. She believes that the main teacher could see this student struggling and didn't know how to help, but the science teachers figured out the best way to help this student. I figured out she just needed people to catch her mistakes before she taught herself to do it wrong. If I could catch it early then she was fine, but if not I had to change everything and teach her correctly.


 From this experince I learned that as teachers we just need to figure out how they are doing something and help them learn a better way to do it. One student would do Math in a wierd way, but kept getting the right answer. The teacher said as long as he is getting the answer right he knows how to do it once he starts getting it wrong she will figure out how he is doing it and help him to learn a better way.

Field Week 3

This week is week 3 of field. There are no assignments again but the digital story which we have already presented.


This week we got to experience all the different things included in being a teacher. For example there was a fire drill and we got to grade essays. I believe the teacher is having us do these things so that we are not really shocked when we are teachers. Grading papers made me happy that I did not chose to specialize in English. It took us pretty much all week to grade those papers. They were two pages single spaced and twelve point font. 


By grading the papers I learned that feedback is good for the students and that two pages single spaced and twelve point font is kind of tough for them. She didn't have us grade for grammar and spelling, but she just wanted to see if the students can follow directions. After they got there papers back she had them write in there journals what they thought was there strong point, what we thought was there strong point and how they can improve writing on future essays. I think this is a good way to engage the students in helping with feedback on their grades.

Field Week 2

This week has been fun we got to teach all 5 lessons and next week more. 


The teacher we are working with has been very helpful on the days we don't have our college supervisor she gives us teaching pointers (Things to try next time, things to increase while teaching, and ways to improve). I am glad we are doing this because I heard that BYU is only cutting down to student teaching and our teacher made since when she said that if you have a bad experience student teaching you are probably not going to be as excited to teach whereas we get to try different schools and grades to see how we like it. Last week I got to help another group with there digital story and it was fun. I like to help teach things to others. The students in our class were mesmerized by our digital story on Egypt. I wanted to pre record a book that I read on Wednesday and try the Vidcast way I saw a few weeks ago, but I didn't have enough time to do it. I am kind of glad because while I was reading it I had a lot of questions.


Well I got to increase my schema on teaching and learned things that work for this class and things that don't. I know sometimes things will work in one age group and not in another. This knowledge I have gained the last few weeks will help me be a better teacher in the future because I have seen things that work for this class and things that went kerplunk when we tried them. I will be able to keep these ideas in my schema drawer and see how my future students react to these things. The teacher we are working with said she enjoyed how I read to the class while they were working on there art and then walked around the room and answered questions about the book, so all students could see and ask questions. Knowing this I can try it with my future students and see how they react.

Field Week 1

This week we worked on our digital story in class and started field.


This week I saw someone do a vidcast where they recorded the text of a book.  Then just turned the pages of the book and did not read the book aloud and they put some musical instrumental music behind it. It made the book more interesting sometimes when people read aloud I lose interest and I love how the technology was used I never thought to do something like that. Well this week has been interesting our original field teacher got sick and will know by next week if she will be getting a long term sub, so Thursday we got moved to another class. Basically this is teaching me to be more flexible in stuff.


The thing I saw with the vidcast will help my future students. I can read the book and make it more interesting then just reading it aloud. On Friday my partner talked to the teacher cause he wasnt feeling well and left. She had me help struggling students with math, unfortunately I have not had math method yet but I did take math 2020 over the summer and I taught the students the long division method for converting fractions to decimals. A lot of the students thanked me for helping them learn a new way to do it. I realized that maybe the way the teacher teaches it doesnt reach everyone although she shows them lots of ways, maybe they just need a little more one on one help. She also had me help grade papers and by looking at the scores she said that this week we are going to do order of operations again and help some of the struggling students. Although I am sorry that our original teacher got sick, it has been fun to work with this teacher.