Field Experience In Education

Having field experiences each semester is very beneficial for myself as a teacher candidate to learn and see the behind the scenes aspects of teaching. The actions that the teachers, and staff go through before or after the students leave the building to get ready for the next day, week, or month. Teachers need to work together in their grade level to understand where they envision taking their students with the curriculum and standards and materials needed for them to be successful. I got to experience this teamwork in a grade level meeting this semester in the field and learned a lot from it. During part of my field experience this semester I was in a fourth grade classroom at East Hanover Elementary School in Lower Dauphin School District. The teachers in the fourth grade were dealing with a new curriculum called IReady for math and reading, and were learning on the fly …show more content…
They did an incredible job of planning each day together and what lesson, and what practice page, and what assessment goes on what day, and were able to have just about the same for all the classrooms, giving each student in each classroom the best opportunity to be successful.
I learned a lot about working together as a grade team from the couple meetings I attended throughout the semester about how to have a smooth school year in your classroom, you have to have strong communication and relationship with the other members in your grade level. The fourth grade teachers at East Hanover really showed me that, and made it very clear that being a team member instead of trying to do it all on your own is super beneficial and the only way to successfully be a