Another week half way down.
This week my classes took our first trip to Washington Elementary which is where we will be spending Mondays and Tuesdays at during our class time. From what I saw just from the one visit it looks to be a great school. It seemed small and the teachers were great. I am really looking forward to spending time in the school with the students and learning from the teachers.
For Social Studies Methods this week we are going over generalizations. Generalizations are summary statements that talk about the relationship between two or more concepts, or summarize cause and effect. We have also started working on our PDPs or Personal Development Plans. I am working on coming up with two SMART goals for me to work on and achieve. The goals are to help me develop as a teacher, who meets and goes over and beyond the NC teacher standards. According to these standards, as a teacher, I should demonstrate leadership, be able to institute a comfortable and respectful environment for diverse students, know the content, be able to promote learning in my students knowing and understanding what they need so that they can learn to their fullest potential, and to be able to reflect back and revise.
Something I do outside of school is I volunteer coach a middle and high school NC Wildlife team. One of the things they have to do for competition is orienteering, which is where they work with a compass to find a certain point in the woods. Another piece of this orienteering part is they have to take a test on NC hunter safety and wildlife. These two things are what I coach. It is getting close to Regionals for them so I have been doing a lot of research on classroom games to do with them to help them review. I have found some pretty cool things to do with the team and I thought I would share a few of them.
This is a link to how to make a life size board game for your students. I did this one a few weeks ago and it worked out great. I think it would work for almost any age students.
This is another game I found, which I think could be fun to try but I have not yet had a chance to implement it.
Savanna,
ReplyDeleteGood summarization of generalizations. I think it is awesome that you volunteer. It sounds like the programs you work in are great and teaching life skills. In future blogs, be sure the connections to the NCTCS are specific. Make sure I can understand the connections you are making. Also, be sure the connections to your future classroom are specific and help me see how you are applying coursework to your classroom.
Savanna,
ReplyDeleteWow, I had no idea that you volunteer as a wildlife team coach! That sounds like such a fun activity, as well as good experience. I bookmarked the human board game website that you included in your post. I feel like that will be a helpful tool to utilize for many different content areas. Great job on summarizing generalization, too!