Blogs for field experience

I did not have easy access to a computer so I took notes of my blogs over the three weeks. I hope this works. If not I will just have to lose oints.

Week 1- This has been a great week! I have loved getting used to being in an elementary classroom instead of my regular classes. I really like my teacher. I have already noticed teaching startegies she uses that I really like and things I don't like as much. It has been hard this week to connect with the students. Though I'm sure it will get better as I learn their names and get to know more about them and their individual personalities. Before we started observing the teacher said she had alot of behavioral problems but I have not seen any so far. As far as I can tell this is a very good class. They all respect and love their teacher. I am excited to teach a lesson next week. Kind of nervous too because I never thought I would be teaching a lesson to a sixth grade class. I want to teach 2nd-4th. But this will be good for me to see what it's like to teach kids at this age.
Week 2- We taught two lessons this week. They went very well! The students all particpated and their were only a few minor behavioral problems. I thought our lessons were well prepared and we were ready. It is kind of frusterating for me to team teach with Paige. She likes to do everything herself. I am excited for when I will be able to teach by myself. The way I want to do it:) But things have been going good. Our teacher also gave us good feedback on our lessons. She told us things she really liked and things we could work on. She told me I need to walk aorund the room and have more of a presence when I teach. Working with the students has been better this week. They trust me and Paige more and show respect to us. They are not afraid to come and ask us for questions and help. I really enjoy working one on one with the students! It makes me excited to be a teacher. Having this experience in the classroom is so much better then pretending to teach to the people in my cohort:) This was an awesome week!
Week 3- Our three lessons this week also went well. Alot more group work instead of just direct instruction. We had alot of class participation! We also did alot of observing this last week. Which I don't really like. It got kind of old to just sit back and watch the teacher do everything. I think two weeks would have been enough to see how the teacher does things. Plus it seemed a little bit pointless to go once we were done with all of our lessons on Ancient Greece. The class all wrote us nice thank you notes. It was so cute! Probably the best part from field was feeling like I was able to spend time with the students in that class. The teacher also gave me a good evaluation and told us to come back if we ever need help with anything. I feel so lucky to have had such a wonderful cooperating teacher and partner for this field experience. It was a good opportunity for me to learn! It really was a wonderful experience. And I am excited to do the same thing next semester in a different grade level. It will be hard to start going to my regular classes again!