Field Experience Reflection
Introduction
My Junior Achievement placement was at Penniman Elementary School in Cahokia, Illinois. Penniman is apart of the Cahokia Unit School District #187. Ms. Sommerfield taught her fifth grade class math, science, spelling, writing, and reading. The fifth graders also went to physical education and art class but with different educators certified in those subjects.
Field experience & General Observation questions Quality teaching and learning includes engaging interactions and environments, organized curriculum, assessment, and individual teaching and learning. In a classroom engaging interaction would include group talk, class discussions, popcorn, etc. The environment that the students are in should also …show more content…
Technology has positive and negative sides towards learning, but personally I have seen technology used more positively then negatively. In Ms. Sommerfield’s classroom there are four black hp computers. Students could use them after certain activities, for example after their math warm-up first thing in the morning they were allowed to use them. The students would use the computers mainly for a math website that generated addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems designed for fifth graders. Some of them were timed, scored, or just for fun. Students loved to see how fast they could go, almost like a timed multiplication test like when I was in fifth grade. The website would also allow them to print out a certificate of completion, which allowed the students to be proud of …show more content…
Provided on the website is the home page that includes any news that students or parents might want to read about. For example right now they show that yearbooks are for sale, April students of the month, the website for the school report card, PBIS goal for May, websites to check out, important dates for May, and a holiday calendar. The district website link is available through the school website along with emails of the administration, teachers, and other staff. It looks like they are meaning to put a map of where their school is located on the website, but it is not actually on there. On the website there is also a tab for family events, but there is none schedule currently. As you can tell the website needs to be
Introduction
My Junior Achievement placement was at Penniman Elementary School in Cahokia, Illinois. Penniman is apart of the Cahokia Unit School District #187. Ms. Sommerfield taught her fifth grade class math, science, spelling, writing, and reading. The fifth graders also went to physical education and art class but with different educators certified in those subjects.
Field experience & General Observation questions Quality teaching and learning includes engaging interactions and environments, organized curriculum, assessment, and individual teaching and learning. In a classroom engaging interaction would include group talk, class discussions, popcorn, etc. The environment that the students are in should also …show more content…
Technology has positive and negative sides towards learning, but personally I have seen technology used more positively then negatively. In Ms. Sommerfield’s classroom there are four black hp computers. Students could use them after certain activities, for example after their math warm-up first thing in the morning they were allowed to use them. The students would use the computers mainly for a math website that generated addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems designed for fifth graders. Some of them were timed, scored, or just for fun. Students loved to see how fast they could go, almost like a timed multiplication test like when I was in fifth grade. The website would also allow them to print out a certificate of completion, which allowed the students to be proud of …show more content…
Provided on the website is the home page that includes any news that students or parents might want to read about. For example right now they show that yearbooks are for sale, April students of the month, the website for the school report card, PBIS goal for May, websites to check out, important dates for May, and a holiday calendar. The district website link is available through the school website along with emails of the administration, teachers, and other staff. It looks like they are meaning to put a map of where their school is located on the website, but it is not actually on there. On the website there is also a tab for family events, but there is none schedule currently. As you can tell the website needs to be