Blog #11 Field Experience 1

I have absolutely loved my field experience so far! I enjoy going into the classroom and observing, helping out and soon teaching some lessons. My partner and I will be teaching out first lesson this coming monday on the Mormon Pioneers. I am excited and nervous at the same time. It will be exciting to see how a lesson plan works out or doesn't work out the way that you had planned.

I think that it is necessary to have the opportunity to have a field experience because it gives me the hands on experience that I need. I am able to see examples of what works in the classroom and what doesn't work so well. Thus far, my field experience has taught me that teachers need to be very on top of what's going on in the classroom at all times. There are times when he/she needs to disciple a student quickly, for a certain behavior, that's sitting across the room.

All the things that I have learned so far in the EDEL Program I am able to apply to the classroom, that I have been assigned to help out in. There are things that I can now see that I would do differently, in my particular classroom, than my cooperating teacher does currently in her classroom. I am still far away from learning all that I can about the classroom, discipline, curriculum, lesson plans, etc., but I am excited to learn how I can become a positive impact on students.