This week we are still in our field experience. I am in a fourth grade class. Aubri, my partner, and I taught out first two lessons this week, on the pioneers. They went better that what I expected. I didn't think that the students would participate as much as they did, but they're a pretty active bunch of students. When we aren't teaching we are walking around helping students and observing the teacher.
Observing in the classroom gives me knowledge on how to deal with students that are acting up in class or having a hard time focusing. Classroom management is a tool that is necessary in becoming a teacher. I like that we are able to teach in a classroom to build up our experience before we are set out on our own. The cooperating teacher that I'm observing and helping out is stricter teacher that I have been used to, for example reminding students of the procedures of the classroom. She is more sarcastic with the students than I would feel comfortable being.
Now that I have seen some of the techniques that my cooperating teacher has used, I can put my own spin on it. I can take the positive skills that she has taught me and make them so that they fit my personality of teaching. Being able to see good examples and not so good examples of teachers helps me to think of how I as a teacher would like to be. Also, now that I have been able to have a little experience in planning and teaching that lesson plan, I hope that I can become more comfortable with teaching the class. Now that I am able to observe in a live classroom, then I can get the hands on experience that I need to build my classroom management skills.
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