Day One At Anne Hutchison Elementary School

On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 I observed Mrs. Megan Mayer and her kindergarten class at Roosevelt Elementary School. When I got to her class, they were preparing themselves to go to the school garden and learn about fruits, and planting. For this activity they partnered up with another kindergarten class right next door. With the two classes we all walked outside to the back of the playground where Roosevelt has a miniature garden. Between both of the classes there were three groups, A, B, and C as well as three sections of the garden activity. One group would sit down with the other kindergarten teacher Mrs. Peterson and they would draw what they had learned in class previously, another group would go with a different teacher who worked at the

The field of education sparks my interest and it is the field I would love to be working in, in the near future. The role of a teacher is a very important one and is one that is not suited for everyone. A teacher needs to respect students, create a sense of community and belonging in the classroom, be warm, accessible, enthusiastic, and caring. These are all qualities I hope to be acquiring with my experiences working with young children. Being in the school of education and human services here at PCTI has been a wonderful learning experience throughout the years.

Many of us learn to make careful field observations while at school or university, but in my case, note taking in the field began at a much earlier age. Because there was no school nearby, and my mother was a trained artist and art teacher, my first lessons from her were not in reading and writing but in drawing from life.

Teaching is an extremely important profession as we are responsible for training up the future generations of our community, country and in effect, the world. In order to be a successful and effective teacher there are some basic skills and competencies that one must possess. The experiences that students have inside (and outside) our classrooms, schools and various other institutes will shape and mould their approach to our subjects and to life in general. Therefore, it requires a certain level of skill and training to be deemed professionally fit to enter into this career path and even then, continuous

Going into the teaching profession has been my passion for quite some time now. Although teaching can have many different stereotypes and misconceptions, I still choose to continue towards this career. Every job has it’s own stereotypes and misconceptions. I currently work at a school, which has offered me a lot of on the job training for my future career. My current job has allowed me to see the different stereotypes and misconceptions that come along with the teaching career field. I am fortunate to already be working in my career field so I can prepare for the future stereotypes and misconceptions when I am a teacher of my own classroom.

The field work that I have done was at the Foundation daycare between 9am and 10:30 am. The daycare is next to the Shaar Hashomayim on Metcalfe and Kensington Avenue in Westmount (o). When I first went to the school I went through the courtyard which had cemented pillars and archways (O) as well as a row of plastic play houses of a variety of colours and sizes (O). The doors are all locked therefore I had to ring the Foundation school doorbell (O). The school has 2 stories (O); the first story is where the daycare (O) is and the second floor is where the elementary school (O) is located. There are 6 classrooms (O) and each classroom has a specific age group (O). While walking to the classroom, there are rows of cubbies and hooks along the walls

On January 29, a Friday, I observed as five student workers ate their lunch around the UCI Athletics compound area. It was exactly 12:15 PM, when the student-workers marched into the area and grabbed their lunches. These are my co-workers, so I did not have to do much to blend in. However, I did want to act natural, so I drank from a bottle of water and sat in a chair in the corner of the compound. They were all eating at the same time, because they only had a short time until they had to get back to work. The first person I observed pulled his lunch out of an orange sack, in which he carried all of his items to work. He had a variety of items he brought to snack one. He moved over to one of the carts, and sat in

My first day in Mrs. Altuve's kindergarten class. Her classroom is very well organized and orderly set up with educational posters on the wall such as the alphabet, days of the week, numbers, and a behavior chart filled with her students names. In Mrs. Altuve's class, she has twenty-one students in her class. There are eleven male students and ten female students. The way her desks were set up were together to form a group. The ethnic background of the students in the class was ten African-American, five Caucasian, and six Hispanic. The students were seated in her group of four desks together and each student had their name tag in the center of their desk.

My first observation was how the classroom was co-taught. My classroom had Mr. Hawkins who taught social studies and Mr. Olson who taught english. The first two blocks contained a class called The American Experience which intertwined English and social studies. Another early

In the second-grade classroom one of the largest issues that I face is the differences of viewpoint between myself and my co-op. Going into the classroom, there were several practices that confused me. I continue to see things that leave me questioning their effectiveness, and how they impact the students. This has left me feeling very frustrated. I often feel like my hands are tied because it is not my classroom, and the students are used to this system and I don’t want them to be negatively impacted.

This writer observed a yearbook class at a KUSD high school; the class consisted of junior and senior students. This observer arrived at 11 o’clock to discuss the daily lesson plan with the cooperating teacher before the first class started. The teacher carefully wrote out the class goals and imminent deadlines prominently on the whiteboard. She stated that the key to a successful class is to clearly explain the expectations at the beginning of the class period. Students began to arrive at the half hour mark; the teacher greeted each student individually as they entered the classroom, making conversation as she waited for a majority of the class to be present. Once all of the students were stationed at their computers, the teacher demanded silence, and called their attention to the board. The teacher went over her expectations for what

I thought my first day went great. I am located in Cass City at a outpatient rehabilitation facility. My fieldwork educator (FWE) is very knowledgeable and genuine. She is also a 2011 SVSU graduate, which it nice because she is familiar with the program. We only saw two patients today because the last patient of the day did not come. The first patient had a scapholunate ligament sprain as well as TFCC sprain and the other was a stroke patient. For the first patient, I just observed the therapeutic processes as the therapist used fluidotherapy as preparatory method and stretched the appropriate muscles and ligaments. For the second patient, I was able to administer two activity-based treatments that I created. I was super nervous at first but

There have been numerous things that I have learned and experienced during my short time within this course. The creation of a professional résumé, the philosophy of self-reelection as an upcoming teacher, even the field observation experience, it was all enlightening. However, if there was one definitive concept in this course that has had the most prominent effect on me and my potential as a teacher, it would have to be the discussions. To be able to state my end on intriguing topics and get a response, while also considering others’ opinions and points-of-views was fortuitous for me. The discussion board has persuaded me with topics that I would have not thought too much about until presented such as inner authority, fundamentals, and persuasion.

Imagine making an impact on someone s life. Being the reason why a student never gave up of their dreams. Is amazing as it seems teachers are the sole reasons for the growth of the nation.

Ever since I was a little girl, the idea of teaching always delighted me. Instead of being a regular girl playing dolls, I was playing school with my little cousins and the kids from the neighborhood. Even through my teenage years, while kids my age were hanging out in malls, I was entertaining the toddlers from the street and playing school with them. It always amazed me how differently each of them learned and vice versa. Not only that, but everything you can learn from them. I knew teaching was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. But, God was going to challenge me along the way; the road was going to be a really bumpy one.