Learning Experiences:
This week I finally got to meet with my Clinical Educator. I have been assigned to a 2nd grade class at West Elementary. My first impressions of the teacher and class are good. The educator and I discussed the requirements of all of my classes and planned out the schedule for me to observe and then teach. We spent some time going over what she has been teaching in class and setting up ideas for the lessons I am going to do in her class. The time I am able to meet with her is early in the mornings which is the time she does her math lessons. So I decided to do a math lesson with art integration. She is starting on time and money when I am planning to teach, so I am looking at having them create a clock to tell time on for the arts integration part. For my other lesson I am planning to do literacy and social studies. I am going to try to do it over spring break so that I can go during her literacy block so she does not have to flip her schedule. She did not really have a specific lesson for me to do for that, so I am working on coming up with something.
Outside Learning:
Today was Digital Learning Day and between classes today we had a Digital Learning meeting where we all shared technology resources that we had found. It was a great learning experience and I enjoyed it extremely, and not just because we got Mexican food. Some of my favorites included goformative.com and zearn.org which were both interactive math resources, good to use as formative assessments, and learning tool for the students. The resource that I shared was an app called Toontastic 3D which is a story maker app. Students can use the app to create and animate their own stories or to recreate a story that they read to show reading comprehension. This whole day and learning experience definitely fits in with the NCTCS standard 4d, which says teachers need to integrate and utilize technology in their instruction. Today was perfect in helping us out with this. Over all the day was definitely worth it.
Future classroom:
Working with the clinical educator is helping me prepare for my future classroom by working directly with a teacher and then making a lesson plan to actually teach to a real elementary class. And once I do my lesson she is there to give me feedback on it so that I can improve. Also learning about all of the resources is helping me because now I can add them to my bank and learn how to use them now so that I can put them to good use in my future classroom.
Savanna, That is awesome that you met with your clinical teacher and are working to set up a lesson plan to teach to the class! That is so exciting and I can't wait to hear about it. Digital learning day was also very exciting for me and very informative. I learned some great resources as well. Toontastic was an awesome app and I cannot wait to work more with it! I agree that working with your clinical educator is a great way to help prepare for teaching in your future classroom because with your CE's experience, you can learn much more.
ReplyDeleteSavanna, I'm glad you were able to meet and get some ideas flowing with your clinical educator. I loved the app you shared at digital learning day! It's a great way to get students engaged and excited to write stories. Building up our resource bank and working one on one with teachers in real classrooms is so valuable to get a taste of what it will be like in our own classrooms.
ReplyDeleteSavanna,
ReplyDeleteI am glad you enjoyed Digital Learning Day! How can we make this more meaningful next year?