Practicum

that are looking to hire and offering internships, Sanderson and I agreed that they would want to look for communications majors to apply for the internships. This lead onto the question of what is the communication practicum. From how I interpreted it from Dr. Sanderson, the practicum is like college course, specialized in…

Observation Reflection On September 30th I had my first formal observation for third semester practicum in Mrs. Bresslers second grade class. During the time of my observation, I did a whole group math warm to practice counting up and down in double digit numbers, using one's. I then sent students back to their desks to start sprints. They had two minutes at a time for sprints. After sprints, I went over an application problem with the class, and I had them do this problem on their own in…

Social work practicum is a vital part of social work education. Through experiential learning undergraduates learn how to integrate textbook theories, knowledge, skills, and values under the direct supervision of a professional social worker. The field practicum is where students gain a realistic understanding of what they have learned in the classroom and opportunities to uphold professional values and ethical codes of conduct. For many of us BSW students, it is our first time working…

My practicum setting is an associate degree nursing program, Joliet Junior College in Joliet Illinois, one of the oldest community colleges in Illinois. The mission of the nursing school is to offer students a reasonable, accessible quality education towards a lifelong career in the nursing profession while serving the diverse population living within our community (Joliet Junior College [JJC], n.d.). In addition, the nursing school’s philosophy is to prepare students to enter into the growing…

Practicum Application Number One Teachers of all early childhood classrooms must ensure they have a plan for classroom management. Classroom management includes the establishment of a positive learning environment or encouraging classroom, physical arrangement of the classroom with learning centers, determination of developmentally appropriate lessons and activities involving movement, routines and schedules, behavioral management, and organization of learning materials (Gartrell, 2014), This…

Helped Seniors was my role in the practicum this semester, and they play a big part in our society since there are a lot since the baby boom era. I helped seniors around my grandparents and helped their friends who are in the mid 70s to 80s with snow shovelling and yard work on weekends, I would help with dogs, cats, and many other animals. I would be driven over by my grandparents on the weekend a friend of theirs needed help. Around once a week I would walk a dog or clean up after a cat or…

For the disability ministry project, we were asked to choose a practicum experience where we shadowed or spoke to someone helping someone with a disability. For my project I chose to spend some time in the class for disabled children at the high school I graduated from. Throughout the glimpse of time that was allotted for this particular practicum experience I learned a lot of exciting things about disabilities, but also made some disconcerting revelations. While spending the day at school I was…

I did my practicum experience at Holy Family Catholic School. This is a smaller elementary school in my hometown of Rockford Illinois. My practicum experience was in grades k-4 as I was with a teacher who was a resource teacher for students who nee extra help in reading and math. My experience was great as I got so see a huge diversity of students and how the teacher interacted towards each one differently depending on their needs. During my practicum experience the teacher had each grade level…

Introduction My practicum experience is allowing me to form several mentoring relationships with nurse educators across the organization at which I am working. According to Thorpe and Kalischuk (2003), mentoring relationships are a great way to enhance the education of nursing students. Not only am I gaining valuable information and experience by working with my mentors I am also learning a lot about the mentoring process as a whole. In the future becoming a mentor is something that I would…

be able to develop confidence in performing nursing/clinical tasks by receiving beneficial feedbacks from my preceptors and the staff in the pediatrics and NICU units. - I achieved this objective by having a lot of opportunities in this clinical practicum to improve my nursing skills and learn how to handle challenging situations. I was able to shadow a mother and baby RN. I was able to take newborn vitals, feed newborns, change diapers, learn how to give newborn a bath, learn how to do newborn…