Practicum

myself and working with children was the area that I had the least amount of experience in. What I learned during that internship has shaped my life in a completely different way. Fast forward a couple years and now I am completing my practicum in a Middle School. Practicum continues to teach my valuable lessons; each time I enter the school. I can’t believe there was a time, when I thought against working with children. Working with children can be rather difficult. Children are complex…

I met Andrea Seaberg two years ago when she was a senior at Detroit Lakes High School. She had been placed to work with me (a second grade teacher) from her School-To-Work advisor after she had told her that she was interested in becoming a teacher someday. Andrea and I hit it off immediately. She had the same love and energy that I feel I have as an educator. Needless to say, when she asked me to be her mentor throughout her schooling at Bemidji State University, I was thrilled. We met on a…

effective way for teachers to engage students in active learning. The focus of attention in a small group is not on the teacher, but on the interactive learning that is going on between the student and the task at hand” (23). In my Pre-Internship Practicum placement this semester, I am in a first grade classroom. Throughout the course of the semester, I have been able to witness the benefits of small group reading instruction on a weekly basis. Students really thrive when meeting in that setting…

I would like to extend my sincere appreciate to the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Honors College Committee for offering me the opportunity to submit my application for review and consideration. If accepted into this prestigious program, my short-term goal is to continue improving upon my academic excellence and becoming a well-rounded UTSA Student in the field of Public Health, specializing in Epidemiology and Disease Control. As a potential UTSA Honors College candidate, my…

Tatianna Baker Student Teaching Reflection Paper My student teaching experience at LeRoy Elementary School was a great learning experience for me. I learned a lot about myself as a speech pathologist, and discovered my strengths and weaknesses. My co-teacher was very supportive and pushed me each day to succeed and further my skills and knowledge. When I first started the experience I was anxious, but excited to put my coursework into action. I worked hard to research different ways to present…

I am not sure what happen. All this week it been very crowded. I am very happy about the lack of people today. I have been very busy all week with homework, work and my practicum. I am due for a easy day in my book. We had about seven clients in total today and six of the seven just wanted to use the computer. I am not sure why clients like to use our computers, they are so old. Their box monitors, and dust covered keyboard…

During the fourth week of intervention, my practicum student met his behavioral goal within the self-contained classroom. During the first few weeks of intervention I used a Social StoryTM intervention, followed by positive reinforcement for the target behavior. After last week’s observation of resistance to the Social StoryTM; intervention planning shifted towards priming and using first next charts. The behavior continued to be reinforced using a token economy on a fixed interval schedule…

1. “One of the most important and often ignored aspects of reading assessment is the affective domain—that is, interest, attitude, and motivational factors related to reading success” (Flynt & Cooter, 2014, p. 31). The interest inventory gives the examiner access to information that can not be gleaned through a formal cognitive assessment. An interest inventory gathers information about “students’ background knowledge, interests, and motivations as related to reading” (Flynt & Cooter, 2014, p.…

thinking skills, being detail oriented, listening skills, patience and of course amazing communication skills. There are a lot of opportunities and internships for this career. During the final semester of graduate school, students take a clinical practicum. Clinical require 300 to 375 hours of hands on practice under supervision of a licensed speech therapist. A graduate degree in speech language pathology takes 2 years of study beyond the bachelor’s…

I would like to say thank you so much to Alfredo, Marie and Chris for your wonderful help that I am getting from you guys. UWP 293: Career Planning and Practicum from this class I got a great opportunity to do on-site informational interview. Before I went for informational interview, I was so nerves, didn’t know what am going to do? How is going to look like? Am I going to be good adding it? So, I came up these all questions to my class, but Marie, Alfredo and Chris did help me out. It’s not…