Number of Students in Class - 21
Cooperating Teacher - Mrs. Tera Jeffs
- How is your relationship with your cooperating teacher? Explain. This has been a good experience for me. The teacher did express how good Morgan and I were for the students and a help to her when it came to teaching mini-lessons and helping her grade papers. She loved having us come into class and she would give us teaching tips on the methods she has found that works and some management techniques to help the students pay more attention.
- How does she feel about the technology piece we created? She really like the pictures and video clips that we had found. She felt like the music that we choose went well with the feel of our digital story. She thought it was something that the students could really get into. When we showed her our rough draft of it she gave us some tips on some kinds of music we could add since we needed another one to finish up the project. I felt this was great, because another opinion is a nice thing to have.
- How does she feel about the lesson you completed? She gave Morgan and I several tips on how to improve in management techniques, but she was really impressed in our lesson plans and thought they were well explained. She did think the class we were teaching was really talkative, but they got better as our lessons progressed and they knew more about us.
- How did the training session go? Explain. We didn't have enough time to go over everything in detail, but Morgan and I were able to answer her questions she had about it. We told her about several websites like Creative Commons and Zamzar to help her find images and sound clips to help her as resources. We were able to show here how to edit video clips and change the transition times for the pictures.
- How do you feel about this service-learning? I think it is good to be sharing our knowledge with others because teachers help each other because our goals are often the same, to help students learn. By sharing and having these resources available then as teachers we can share the info and expand knowledge.
- What did your cooperating teacher gain from this experience? I think she really enjoyed having Morgan and I participate in her class. She liked that we were willing to teach other lessons besides Social Studies and helping her out with reading groups. she said that she liked how we interacted with the students and could relate to thing they were sharing. It was also great being able to talk about our school experience and was interested in hearing what we were doing in our classes, like technology.
- What did I gain from the experience? This was a fun learning experience for me. I just felt like I grew more from a personal perspective as well as a professional one. Just being in the classroom for that time was an opportunity to really get to know the kids and see their personalities and how they contribute to the class. It was great being able to help a few of them one-on-one understand a topic/subject better, like math. I have also noticed a change in myself. Often times when I get too excited or nervous about things I begin to stutter or talk really fast. As the time progressed I became more aware of it and was able to pace myself more. The next step would be to work on explaining my directions/instructions more clearly. So I know for the Field Experience in the Spring some of the things I can do to improve, so by this time next year, I should be a lot better off.
- Was it worth it? Why or why not? I believe this experience was totally worth it. Technology plays a major role in schools and rely on it for many projects. It is cool to see they have computers available in the classroom for the students to use. Back when I was in Elementary School we had computer time once a week for 30-45 minutes....things have really changed in so many ways. As a new graduate of college it looks good on job applications if one was able to know computers and technology and hopefully will give them a leg up in the interview.
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