I am observing a Elementary School this time to get more experience. It's good to get experience in all age group whether it's elementary, middle, or high school. I don't think i need experience to know what highschool was like i can remember how those kids were, including myself. My memory of highschool was like i went there yesterday. I can remember everything about highschool; it was not a time of enjoyment for me. I was picked on just about everyday, i almost got in some fights, and it's not a moment to relive. I'm not sure if i would want to teach highschool it can be a tough bunch. Everybody in highschool thinks that they are grown and it's just more attitude to put up with.
I'm so excited to be visiting the Elementary School, this is the age group i always dreamed of teaching. I've had my mind set on teaching since i was in the fourth grade; i know a long time. I will keep you guys posted on my observations of the new school i will be observing. After i am done with all my observations i will let you know whether i want to teach Middle or Elementary School.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Last Day of Observation at Middle School
Believe or not my last day was March 4, 2011 at the Middle School. I will miss coming to this school just to gain experience as a future teacher. I am glad that i was able to help out some of the students with the assignments assigned in the class. This has been my long life dream to become a teacher and visiting this school makes me realize i am fit for being a teacher. The first class i went to was a 7th grade Social Studies class, this is my favorite class. I wish i was an itern for them, but i have a long way to go before that happens. The children in the class were reviewing for a test on World War II aka: Cold War and that lesson consisted of, so may things they needed to know. It included Stalin, the atomic bomb, Manhattan Project, the british, Truman, the U.S., NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), USSR, Woodrow Wilson,Theodore Roosevelt, The Truman Doctrine, and Japan. The teacher uses the smartboard to display the review notes and the video they watch is A League of their Own. The following is the link to the video called, A League of their Own:
I have enjoyed this Social Studies class because i was able to help students in this classroom with their assignments. The teacher even gave me some compliments she was like you are great with kids and all the kids like me. She says i am willing to sit down with a student and help them which means alot. Her classroom contains kids that are gifted, slow learners, certain disorders, and certain disabilities. I learned on how to deal with students who are all on different levels in that class which is a good quality to have as a teacher. The teacher also tells me that to be a teacher,the school depends on how the children receive you, or responds to you. This can qualify whether you get the position there as well as working as an intern at the school for 3 weeks. If you do a good job working, as an intern at this school, for three weeks you could get a job. This is what i was told during our one on one chats during lunch break.
The next class i went to was a Science Class, for eighth graders called Earth Science. The very subject i hated when i was an eighth grader, but now it's interesting to me as an adult. As i was there they focused on Electrospectrum, this was a nice topic, for the children to learn. They all did an activity which required them using x-ray glasses, a handout, and a presentation on the smartboard. He had pictures of a triangle and a circle and they used the colors red and blue to look at the triangles. Whenever they looked at the blue triangle, with blue light, the triangle disappeared. When they used the red light, to look at the blue triangle, it turned a dark black or grey. When they used the red light to look at a red circle it disappeared, and when they used the blue x ray lens , to look at the red circle, it was a dark black or grey. Then he taught some more on this lesson and he basically stated why the color disappears when you look through the same color. For example a red apple is going to reflect the color red back because it's red, or only red ights can be seen by the colored rays and that is the reason why red is reflected. He also taught that the white light will reflect all of the colors: ROYGBIV. R stands for red, O stands for Orange, Y stands for Yellow, G stands Green, B stands for Blue, I stands for Indigo, and V stands for Violet. I have to say that this class wasn't bad after all for an eighth grade class. I learned that also every class is different, so that is one of things i learned to except. Here is the video clip for learning ROYGBIV that i happen to find:
I will have to say that i very much enjoyed this fun little lesson that was done in this class. The next class i went was a another Social Studies Class. They were being introduced to Rome for the first time the teacher gave them bell work to do when they first came to class. After they finished that she lectured about how Rome came about. She talked about how Romulus and Remus was born from two roman gods. Their mother was Rhea and their father named Mars. Rhea couldn't take care of her twin boys, so she sent them down by the Tiber River. The She-wolf found them and took care of them until they grew older. One day they couldn't decide on how would be king and they fought over that. Romulus ended up killing Remus and that is that is how the city of Rome was named by Romulus. Here is the video clip they watched in class of Romulus and Remus: This video was acted out by 7th graders from a second period class of Ms. Fuhrer's. This video tells the legend of romulus and remus.
The next class i went to was the Special Education class, and they basically were just looking at educational videos. A couple of the videos were on multiplication tables( 5, 6, and 8's), and then one of them was a fraction video. The links to the videos are:
My overall experience with observing the middle school was beneficial, i learned alot, and i feel like middle school is definitely the place, for me to become a teacher. I'm so glad i had this opportunity to learn as much as i can with becoming a teacher in the future.
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