Week 11: Car trouble/ remote from home

     By: Jamia Royal 

Date: 4/10/21

    This morning started off a bit rough for me. I caught a flat tire getting onto the expressway this morning. I immediately notified my professors and MT and everyone was very understanding and checked on my safety. Once my situation was taken care of, I was able to join the classroom from home like we been doing, although I would rather be in the building with the children. This is the first week back from spring break. This is my first time observing the hybrid and remote students from home. Something I noticed is that when my MT uses the whiteboard the children at home are not as engaged as the students in the classroom when using the interactive whiteboard. It also seems like my MT geared that part for the in class students even though that was not the case. 

    During math the children noticed they did something different during the math lesson today which was going into breakrooms. Students went into breakrooms to come up with word problems that went along with the given numbers. The children enjoy going into breakout rooms and I enjoy being able to listen to their ideas and help their thinking.

    Overall, the day got better and I was able to still plan with MT my next lesson on Thursday and even gave her my ideas on my last lesson which is science. She told me pretty much  I will be able to get creative with my last two since they are not following under a specific curriculum that week. I am excited for next week. :) 

 

Week 11: Happy birthday Alle!

By Brenda Johnson

April 8, 2021

This week I went two days for field experience. I had to make up some hours, so I went in on Monday for that. It was a very fun day! I was excited to meet the students I had not gotten a chance to since students have different hybrid schedules. One of the students on learning that I was going to be in class on Monday decided to move her birthday celebration forward. We sang songs, danced, played, and listened to her share things about herself. My MT has a board that students help her fill out when its their turn to celebrate their birthday. The board was a black chalk board. I told her Loved the idea! I might just steal that for my future class.

Today I enjoyed listening to the students share their answers to the question of the day. The question of the day today was ‘What is your favorite magical/ mythical creature and why?’.  My MT told them that they could create their own creatures, the kids are so smart and creative. They added pictures and other details to describe their creatures. I also enjoyed watching my MT practice shared reading in the classroom today. The students were actively participating and ready to answer questions. I think I will use this strategy in my next literacy lesson.

All about me birthday chalk board

Week 11 - Math in the Best of Times

Emily Pinto

EDEC 4571/81 

4.6.21

So this past week was awesome. It was nice to see the kids back from spring break, I really have enjoyed interacting with them throughout this semester. I have been getting more comfortable in the class -- helping my MT with various tasks as well as helping students with their work. As we close in on the last few weeks of the semester I am increasingly saddened that the experience will come to an end!

I taught my math lesson this week, and I'm very pleased with how well it went! I think I definitely improved from my first lesson and I hope I can continue with the improvements as I continue to teach the next 3 weeks. I was admittedly a little nervous teaching math, because not only is math my weakest subject, but this NEW math that students are learning is very different from how I learned at their age, so I had to pretty much teach myself the strategies they are familiar with prior to learning. I guess thanks to this, I was way more prepared for the lesson so that is a silver lining! I am happy that the remote students successfully used the pattern blocks website I provided for them. I was a little nervous about that since the in-person students were able to actually use physical pattern blocks and I wanted to make sure the remote students had a similar experience. But it worked out! Overall, a very successful Week 11. I look forward to teaching Social Studies next week!

Week 11: Social Studies Lesson

 Sara Kent 

April 8th, 2021 

Today I taught my fourth lesson: my social studies lesson. I taught it on comparing and contrasting the two versions of “The Tortoise and the Hare”. I read the students the native American version and we filled out a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting the two of them. The lesson was going well until I ran into some technical difficulties. This was the first time I taught both the remote learners and the in-person learners and it was stressful. I had a plan in place of how I was going to go about this, and it blew up in my face. I wanted to put the kids in break out rooms, but I didn’t have access to put them in breakout rooms because I am not the host, so my MT had to do it. Then, when I tried to use my doc cam to project the Venn diagram it wouldn’t project. That threw off the rest of my lesson as I got flustered and anxious. When it was over, I was just so glad it was done. 

 

 

                                           

 

 

We are three weeks out to being done with the semester and I cannot elaborate enough at how happy I am to be almost done. This semester has been exhausting and I’ve had plenty of breakdowns. I will miss the kiddos and working with my MT, but I am looking forward to a break. 

Week 11- Spring Break is Over!!

Jarrell Harris 

Yay, back in the building after Spring Break, I truly missed the students. I was nice to see their smiling faces. My MT and I had a great discussion about Spring Break, her and her family went to Wisconsin Dells. I can tell that she really enjoyed it and needed the break. I forgot to mention, a few of the students even informed me of what they did for their Spring Break and asked me to share what I did; I am happy the students feel comfortable with sharing their experiences with me. I gained even more experience, I was able to supervise the students as my MT ran to the office, I walked around and checked on them to see what they were silently reading.

 

Moreover, I was able to support one student who creating a depiction of the Titanic, it was an opportune moment to encourage her as she didn’t feel so happy about her sketch.  Leading from that, I was able to walk the students back to the classroom for music. I am grateful that my MT believes in me. More exciting news: I taught my final literacy lesson today on main ideas and supporting details, it was amazing and fun (playing the game during the AS). This time I was very competent and way more comfortable teaching. 

Week 11 - Almost done!

Stefanie Flory 

April 8th, 2021 

Today was so exciting! I taught my third lesson, Social Studies. This was a special lesson because it was the first lesson for field experience that I taught both remotely and in person at the same time! I will admit, I was very nervous that this would be impossible! When I arrived at school, I mentioned to my MT that I was a little nervous about how to implement my lesson in the most comprehensive way. Wow! my MT was so supportive!! The lesson I taught, had the students researching a country! I was kind of stuck on how to provide the google slides without having them all on the same google slide and I did not want to take the extra time to assign each student their own country to research! 

To make it so much easier for me and calm my nerves, my MT offered to put together a list and assign each student the country to research prior to the lesson. This made the lesson run SO much smoother and it was overall a great lesson!! The children enjoyed it and I did too! I am so happy that I can see how much I have improved since the first week and I am very sad that we only have a couple more weeks with the kiddos, I will definitely miss them and my MT deeply!

I was also fortunate enough to have spent Monday here as well! One of the students who is not present at school on Thursdays, comes on Mondays, it melted my heart when she brought me a picture and said " I drew this for you Ms. Flory". This makes me SO excited and ready to have my own class full of amazing students!!! 

                                       

Ready to make the MOST of the last couple weeks of field experience!! 😊

The graphic organizer activity that the students were asked to complete! They all did so good, I am so proud!! 

Week 11 - Countdown to the End!

April 8th, 2021

By: Kate Drish

We're finally in the homestretch and in three more weeks, the hardest semester of my life will be over. Whew! I have to admit, I struggle sometimes to just figure out what day it is. Its definitely kicking in that the semester and field experience are almost over. I'm excited to check more classes off my transcript list, but I will really miss my MT and the kids. I've gotten so close to all of them and I feel like I've learned so much. It's been so fun to share the classroom and take over, as most Thursdays I'm teaching 2-3 lessons throughout the day. My MT has been more than supportive and I'm grateful, because I know she doesn't have to me.

As per my post two weeks ago, my MT was in direct contact with someone who tested positive for COVID. She taught remotely from home today while a sub and I lead the class in person. Its always nice to meet new people within this school as they are all very friendly and helpful. She was much older than me but shared so many stories of the years she was a teacher. Now that she subs, she said she often reflects on what education was years ago. It makes me wonder what education will look like in the future. 

Also, how relatable?! You can do it, kid!