Elementary Education Destination

My proudest moment for this week was the compliment my CE gave to Gardner-Webb. Whenever she was explaining to me, how teachers are evaluated using the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards, I told her how we are breaking down the standards and creating websites about them. She was furthermore impressed when I told her that we always connect a standard with an experience we have encountered throughout the week. My CE then told the principal yesterday how impressed she was with Gardner-Webb in how well they were training me. One of the best reasons for being in the classroom is to see first hand all of the information I have been taught during this semester as well as previous semesters. The lesson I have been struggling the most with this week is how to help the EC student and the ELL student in my CE's class. I was actually able to pull them aside yesterday and work with them one on one. While the rest of the students were following the teachers instruction by writi...

Hello Everyone, I hope you are all doing great this week. I cannot believe that we are already halfway to the end of the semester. In beginning my blog for today, I will start with the positive. My proudest moment for this week was that my CE trusted me to take the students outside by myself. I had to watch my time very closely since we only had a few minutes before the school bell. I did what I have seen my CE do before. She uses a cell phone alarm as a warning for when she has to be somewhere. I had students line up to go back inside seven minutes before the bell rang. My biggest struggle this week was knowing how to deal with a student being “hurt.” Students will use any excuse to go up to the office to get a pack of ice. I was concerned without how to deal with this issue as it seemed to be happening more and more frequently. On Wednesday, my CE put a stop to the nonsense. She told all the students that if they had to go to the office to get ice they will miss out on reces...

Hello Everyone, I hope you are all having a good week. I am having such wonderful experiences in the classroom this week including teaching task 2 lesson plans, going on a field trip, and observing a fire department presentation at school. I was able to teach my first task 1 lesson on Monday. Unfortunately, the one lesson will be divided up into two days because there was too much content to cram into one day. I was able to see how the daily schedule can get so messed up. We had to interrupt our morning work to see a skit the firemen performed for the kids. When we came back I had approximately twenty minutes to start my lesson which was Picture and Text Clues. Students learn to identify what the meaning of the story is by looking at pictures clues, text clues, and background knowledge. I had to finish the lesson in the afternoon because after the twenty minutes my CE had groups come in from different classrooms for the reading lesson. Unfortunately, I had several classroom manag...