As my field work at Carter Elementary comes to an end, I can honestly say that nothing better prepares you for working with children than doing just that. No matter how many hours I sit in UTSA’s lecture halls and classrooms, or study the socially just and proper way to respond to each situation, it will never be more beneficial that being in an actual kindergarten class for two hours a week. As we progressed in IDS 2013, I was eager to visit my students in Mrs. Ferguson’s class and witness what…
the students play dice math, the teacher moves the desks into a square around the room so the students have room to roll the dice in the middle of the classroom floor. The teacher makes it so the students are able to sit in their chairs as well, so they can write down the problems comfortably. Parental Involvement To involve parents in the classroom, the school has a parent-teacher conference every nine weeks to inform the parents how their children are doing in class, whether they are…
When I first started to teach my first lesson on comparing and contrasting the students immediately began to understand comparing. They knew to “find the similarities” between the two arctic animals. I would talk with the students and first model what I wanted them to do. I believe this helped the students to understand what it means to compare/contrast between two things. The students also understood how to contrast. After I modeled contrasting to the students they knew to “look for the…
a sweet and gentle child, full of love and laughter. She typically enters the classroom with a sweet smile and sets off to choose a work in Practical Life or Sensorial. Tvisha is a keen observer and enjoys watching lessons given to her classmates. In circle, Tvisha listens intently and enjoys interacting with classmates. She loves to participate in Music and Spanish classes. She is very comfortable with the classroom environment, and feels empowered by her independence to choose work. She is a…
1.0 INTRODUCTION The educational system has evolved throughout the years with the involvement of technology, same goes with learning session in class. Nowadays, teachers utilized the use of technology to enhance students’ learning in class. Books, hand-outs, notes and discussion are examples of learning aids in class instead of teachers’ lectures. However, environment in the class changes as teachers began to use other learning aid such as online discussion, online quizzes and PowerPoint…
let drugs tie them down. The children came in and wrote in their morning journals about their long weekend. I thought this was a great idea for creative writing in the classroom and getting the children use to writing. Every day one of the students leads the classroom and picks activities for the day. They get to lead the classroom in the morning with the calendar on the Promethean board. The students state the day, month, year, and the weather outside for the day. Then the math behind the date…
Growing up I have always enjoyed writing, I view writing as the most effective way to tell your true feeling, because sometimes telling how you feel to someone that person can rebut or cut in to what you saying. Writing makes what you want to say come across exactly how you mean it and how you want it to come across In my current stage in life I do not like writing in any form not even texting. When I think about writing or have to do a writing assignment I get poignant memories and it just…
and keep up with class work. A popular device used in the classroom is the laptop. Students in the college level takes notes on their laptops to stay organized and to easily copy notes that are missed from other students and online. The concern is that laptops can be distracting or hinder learning. Martin Tallvid, Johan Lundin, Lars Svensson, and Berner Lindström, preformed a survey on one on one distractions with laptops in the classroom. They performed the study because there is an ever…
fair, this makes sense because today 's technology has a lot of qualities to aid classroom efficiency. However, these same devices and programs are also capable of harming the learning process. To be clear,…
When writing or coloring having a larger grip is beneficial for Eddies, and an easy adjustment. One struggle we still have in the classroom is use of scissors. This makes it hard for him when we do projects in the class room, or in the art room. While his peers can be independent, he occasionally requires help. I’m not sure if an occupational therapist is involved, but I feel this would…