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.