Rocks and More!

Student Intern: Barbara Edwards Week Ending:

Placement: First Grade Clinical Teacher(s): Mrs. Hallmets

If you did not teach a full load this week, please indicate which subjects you taught.

1. The main discoveries that I made from teaching this week are:

This week was kind of a crazy week. With the children being out on Wednesday kind of threw the schedule off a little bit. The children had a lot of trouble with subtraction so my main discoveries this week were to try new ways of teaching subtraction rather then just teaching the way dps wants me to. The children were not getting it with the work booklets that dps provides so I pulled more things for the children dealing with fewer and more in subtraction.

2. When I think about being a teacher, I am concerned about: I am still focusing on time management as well as:

* Learning when the lessons arent working and when I need to teach the same topic just in a different way.

* Keeping the children's interest.

* The different skill levels that are present in the class and meshing a child who reads on an 20 level with a child who reads on a 4. Its difficult and I learned the first day that the child with the level 20 got extremely bored and became a behavior problem so I have to keep him engaged and interested.

3. I feel...

* I feel like I am still improving. Everyday I am learning something new. This week I had trouble with math lessons. The children were struggling with subtraction and I felt like it was my teaching. My clinical teacher insured me that I taught the lesson correctly sometimes the children do not catch on. I had to reteach the subtraction.

4. Questions I have after working this week are:

* Just to kelly when the children were struggling

5. I rate my experience this week as:

Inadequate Marginal Excellent

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6. Other reactions:

* This week we continued rocks. We sorted pebbles, sand and larger rocks. The children really enjoyed the rock lessons and looking at the different types of rocks that I have provided this week. I also let them observe my sculpture that I did in art course out of granite rock. They were amazed that you could make rock into sculptures.

7. After discussing this week with my clinical teacher(s), next week I will focus on:

seeing new classes and discovering ways that other teachers teach