Reflection #10: Field Experience 1

WHAT?: This week in field all we really got to do is observe and help the children out a little bit here and there. Our teacher wanted us to watch her teaching and get a feel for the children before we actually started teaching them so we won't teach until the last week.

SO WHAT?: This week was really good so far. You can sure tell the children's personalities even within a couple days of watching them. The teacher really only did one thing that was technology integrated. It was a book report that the children were to put together either by a movie or vidcast almost. The children must have gotten this assignment before we came to observe because we just got to watch a couple of student's book reports that had not been viewed yet. I really enjoyed these assignment because I feel it is something new for the children to do instead of the same old boring book reports that can be very repetitive. I think that it is very important as a teacher to give the students fun, creative assignments so that way they are excited to try something new! It was fun to see something similar to what I had learned in our technology class being used! I loved seeing the individual student's ideas because they were so different but both so great!

NOW WHAT?: I think that as a teacher I would love using this idea in my classroom. I hope that as we observe more we see our observing teacher integrate technology more into the classroom, because I do not feel like we saw enough technology integrated. I think that as me and my partner teach in field we are going to do as much as we can with technology because I feel that it is something that the children would enjoy if they had the opportunity to see it or even participate in. As a teacher, I would definitely use the book report idea in my classroom and share it with my colleagues so they could use it in their classroom. I definitely feel that taking this technology class has helped me come up with some great ideas to use in my classroom. Without the experience we are getting in this class I do not believe that I would feel comfortable integrating any technology into my class! I cannot wait to observe more, and I really hope we see much more technology integrated ideas!