Co-Teacher Reflection

What- WHAT - Why did you plan this experience? How did you organize for this experience? What materials did you collect? What spaces did you utilize? What feedback did your co-teachers/mentors give you and how did you integrate their feedback? During the experience, what were your students doing? What were your students not doing? What were the students’ goals, strategies and theories? What were you and your co-teachers doing? What were you and your co-teachers not doing? What were the teachers’ goals, strategies and theories? How were the goals, strategies and theories of students and teachers the same and/or different? What else did you notice? What surprised you? What made you laugh or wonder or pause? What do you perceive as the successes …show more content…
I observed this in all of the children. Jack hammered , “his,” nail for over 10 minutes. With each strike of the hammer he would smile, and say, “Look at me, I am hitting my nail.” Soren was confident and climbed up on a step ladder to get just the right wrench for his project. While Lucas delighted in showing me all his, “Wheels.” Being empowered to use real tools, offers children responsibility. Our classroom has been asking questions about Risk Taking Play and the benefits of it. I believe that by slowly introducing the children to the use of tools they are taking on more responsibility with each use. Soren was using the tape measure, and when Jack started coming close to him Soren said, “Space, this is fast.” The week before we had been exploring the speed and trajectory a tape measure has when it is pulled out and released. The children were accomplishing challenging tasks, gaining new skills and taking pride in their accomplishments. The experience with “flinstone technology,” was inspiriting. I could see nearly all of the Early Learning and Development guidelines being demonstrated by the children. One of my favorite moments was of Soren using the tape measure, he would hold it down on the workbench and say, “One, this is