Personal Narrative: My Field Experience At Jane Addams Elementary School

I attended Jane Addams Elementary School for my field experience hours. As I was attending this school, I started to think about when I was a student teacher at my elementary school. My experiences with both schools were different because each school had a different setup for how they wanted to teach the class. My freshman and sophomore year of high school, I had volunteered to do student teaching at my elementary school, and it was really tough for me because that was my first time ever teaching students at a fifth-grade level. I was nervous and didn’t feel very confident in myself because the students were being really loud and rude to me and the other the teacher. In that situation, I didn’t know what to do because I felt if I said something I would become the teacher that everyone doesn’t like. The teacher that I was working with told me that you need to learn how to control your students because if not then they are going to continue to run you over in every situation you have. By the end of the student teaching, I learned how to not let the students get in control of me. When I found out that I had to do field experience in college, I was very excited. …show more content…
The students at Jane Addams were very polite and very respectful to me and the teacher. This experience was very inspirational to me because it showed me how I will be when I become a teacher, and I think I did pretty well on teaching those students math because I got good reviews from the students and the teacher. If I could go back to when I was teaching the fifth-graders when I was in high school, I would do it all over again because I believe I did it all wrong because I wasn’t that confident in myself and I was still getting over being shy in front of