Teacher Reflection Paper

Cook gave a lecture on Mental and Emotional Health. I really enjoyed his lecture because he used a personal example of him and when his father died. He was using his personal experience to explain to the students how he dealt with his father’s passing and how he got professional help. Before Mr. Cook’s lecture, he showed the students a crash course video on YouTube about emotions, stress, and health that would tie into the lesson. Throughout the lesson, Mr. Cook would ask the students questions and they would also ask him questions. What really caught my attention this week is Mr. Cook’s teaching style. I really feel like he knows the material and that he is well prepared. In my opinion, it is like he knows that book forwards and backwards. I also noticed that the students are not required to take notes like the students at my previous field experience was required to. Overall, I had a great first week and I look forward to learning more about Mr. Cook and his methods of

When I arrived to Dr. Singleton’s Identity, Cultures, and Democracy class in September, I had no idea what importance the name of the course held in my life. Now, nearly completed the course, I see the importance of the course’s title and how impactful each word is to me. The two terms that were used most often throughout the semester were “American Dream” and “Culture”. After extensive conversations regarding the American Dream and Culture, I have a new perspective for each that will forever serve me well on my journey through college and life in general. The definition of the American Dream mentioned in class is the idea that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work,

During my visits to Metzler elementary, I was able to observe all the different grade levels and I was fortunate enough to be able to observe eight different teachers, which helped me better understand and see the different ways I could teach the children. While observing, I really enjoyed and gathered information that I feel make good lessons from two different teachers, which were the fifth and fourth grade teachers.

Education is a vital tool in developing the leaders of the future. It helps to build opinions and views on many things in life. Also, education provides us with the knowledge of the world around us and allows us to make the necessary changes to better that world.

For this assignment I interviewed Ms. Stephanie Wissler, a math interventionist at the intermediate school, grades three through five. Ms. Wissler is in attendance at all Intervention Response Team (IRT) meetings, which is our SRBI program in Coventry. Additionally, for question number eight, which speaks to specific interventions in our school, I also reached out to the reading interventionist Ms. Margo Vachon to speak on behalf of the Reading Room in our school and Mrs. Laila Marvasti, School Social Worker. Below are the responses to each question as well as my personal reflection to each aspect.

My objectives in practicum this fall semester was to use developmentally appreciate practices, recognize and use effective classroom management strategies and develop and implement appropriate activities. This school year was my first time working in an infant and toddler classroom. During my time working in the classroom, I accomplish a lot beyond my goals I created.

In the classroom I observe, there are 32 students equally broken up into sixteen boys and sixteen girls. Each one of these students has their own personal chrome book. A chrome book is like a mini laptop that the teacher can assign the students assignments and assessments. A chrome book can be used for any subject. Some example programs on the chrome book are type club, math, writing, educational YouTube, and dictionaries. I see the use of chrome books as a great technology used in the classroom. Back when I was an elementary school student, I did not have chrome books in my classroom. The first lesson I observed on a chrome book was a math lesson. The teacher assigned through her computer a particular practice assessment to the students. The students then clicked to open the assignment and began. I found this technology helpful because if a student was stuck on a question, there was a video tutorial for them to view specific to the question. In fact, there was a specific video tutorial for each one of the questions. At the end, students were able to see how they did immediately. They are able to see their progress toward the actual test coming up. The teacher was also able to see the class statistics overall, and statistics to each question. This let the teacher know what the class struggled with and what should be taught again. Chrome books definitely caught my attention. Technology grows everyday and schools have to keep up with the change. It is interesting to me, to see

During field, I am in a third grade classroom at Primos Elementary School in Upper Darby, PA. To maintain confidentiality as I write about my field experience, I will be using pseudo-names for the teacher and children mentioned. My field teacher is Mrs. Williams, and her classroom is home to about eighteen to twenty diverse third grades in terms of socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity. When I am in the classroom, I am fortunate to see the children’s unpacking routine as they enter the classroom which consist of removing necessary materials from their backpacks, taking down their chairs from their desks, and for some students, eating breakfast which they paid for through the school. After the students’ finish unpacking, Mrs. Williams tries to implement a form of morning meeting, although she cannot always do so depending on the behaviors of her students. Typically, however, she finds just enough time to go over news and announcements with her class. After morning meeting, the students have math instruction from 9:15 am until 10:25 am. After math, her students go to their specials class, and then off to lunch. In this paper, I will be analyzing one of Mrs. Williams math lessons, to see if her lesson meets the elements of a lesson.

Throughout the courses of ELED 4311 and ELED 4312, my knowledge of science had definitely changed in a positive way from the beginning of the course up until now. With the help and guidance from Dr. Wong, Professor Gokus, and Professor Donze, I was exposed to a variety of activities that I would like to incorporate into my future classroom. Not only will I be teaching science, but I can also collaborate it with other subjects such as math, reading, writing, and social studies.

In the classroom that I am observing my teacher teaches government and econ. On Friday September, 22nd I observed an econ class where the teacher said he was going to use his brother as an example for a credit card debt work sheet that he put up on the projector screen. The sheet used the highest possible interest rate (23%). The teacher than gave the students the formula to calculate how much interest would be paid on a sum of money. In this example the teacher said his brother was fifty five thousand dollars in debt. The teacher then asked the students to find how much interest his brother would have to pay. At this point in the class a few of the students moved quickly to remove their calculator from their backpacks and worked to figure the equation and give the teacher a correct answer. One student who we will name Jane gave the teacher an answer. The teacher then asked the class if they thought Jane had given the correct answer they all nodded their heads in agreement. The teacher then told Jane good job and moved to the next question. Before the teacher could explain the next question a student we will name Rick asked why the interest rate was so high. To which the teacher replied “well Rick in your case when you get you first credit card your interest rate will be close to this amount” to which Rick replied why is that. The teacher then explained how credit worked and that interest rates were based off of your credit and how likely you are to pay back a loan. The

To begin the Faculty assignment I first started by trying to email professors using the faculty information document provided. Of all the specialties available under the Business degree, management and marketing most interested me. This is due to the fact that I have an ample amount of experience working in restaurants. Often while performing tasks such as endlessly sweeping floors, scraping gum off tables, talking down agitated customers and so on, I found my mind wondering. Aside from thinking about how much I was utterly and wholly adoring my tasks, I thought about what it would be like to run the establishment. I wondered what it would be like to manage others and plotted ways in which I could improve upon my manager’s skills in the area of management. Because of my curiosity for management I really wanted to speak with someone who is knowledgeable in the area. After sending a few emails to multiple instructors and not receiving any reply I decided it was time for a face to face interview.

Morning routine was done with attendance, I assisted student to do it correctly as students are still learning how to do their different jobs in the classroom, as well as assisting with lunch count. Students pulled homework out and the teacher and I made sure they did it correctly and explained to students that may have graphed word count wrong or had questions.

For this assignment I was unable to ask the teachers at my normal school setting questions due to them being on vacation all this week. That being said I asked one of my favorite teachers who works at the high school I go to. This teacher's name is Claire Hickman, she is the art teacher at Bayshore High School. One of my questions asked how many years she has been in an inclusive learning environment and her answer was 13 years! That’s just 5 years short of my life time so I am sure I can learn a lot from her. I had also asked the overall composition of her classes she mentioned that each class had about 35 students ranging from grades 9 to 12. Of these 35 students 11 would be ESOL, 5 V.E. students, and 1 gifted student. I had even asked if she makes changes on her lesson plans depending on the type of student that are coming into her classroom she said yes. I asked her questions mainly pertaining to students who are ESOL and students who have disabilities. She is extremely open with her views and I knew she would make the perfect candidate to interview.

The lessons were taught in a classroom in a New York City public school. The school is in a low-income neighborhood in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The school’s demographics consist of a majority of Chinese students followed by Hispanic students. A majority of the parents of the students in this class do not speak English. The students were engaged throughout the lessons and it helped that they experience a positive learning environment in this class.

Before I began this observation assignment for my SPED class I was nervous and a bit skeptical about how everything was going to be, because I have never observed an inclusion class. After my first day of observation I felt more confident about my career choice. In this reflection paper I will talk about the assignment and all the things I found interesting, important, and challenging. I will also talk about how I overcame the challenges, my misconceptions prior to observing, and how this field experience will affect my education environment. The last things I will talk about is how my future behavior will now be affected by what I learned and how this experience helped me better understand my personal and professional goals.