Hello everyone!
So many exciting and wonderful things have happened since I have been able to update this blog, and I am kicking myself for waiting this long to do so!
The biggest thing that has happened in my teaching career is the beginning and completion of my practicum experience! I was placed in a 5th grade classroom with the most wonderful cooperating teacher and co-pre-service teacher to teach with. We were responsible for teaching two science lessons, two social studies lessons, and two math lessons. While there were some bumps in the road, I can definitely say that they helped me to grow as a teacher in this profession. It was my first real taste of having control of a classroom, and I loved every hectic second of it. Along with the whole class lessons, I also was paired with a student to do literacy work with every morning we were in the classroom. I was paired with a struggling reader with the sweetest attitude and demeanor. I loved my time with my student and we filled our lessons together working on fluency, spelling, and trying to have a little bit of fun too!
Here are some pictures from a couple of the lessons we did together:
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| To work on inference, I set up clues for my focal student to guess the item in the brown bag. She absolutely loved playing detective. |
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| To figure out where my focal student was with her prior knowledge on cause and effect, we filled out a chart with all the knowledge she had already. |
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| After reading the book "Once Upon a Banana", we created a cause and effect chain! We had too much fun finding all of the causes and effects in the hilarious book. |
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| After reading the book "The Wretched Stone" by Chris Van Allsburg, we created a OQI chart. We created a post it note for everything that we observed, any questions we had, and what we could infer from our observations and questions throughout the text. She did such a wonderful job! |
All in all, I had the most wonderful time in that classroom and learned so much about teaching. The biggest thing that I was introduced to and began to understand better was classroom management. My cooperating teacher taught us all sorts of attention-getters and way to address the classroom. I will definitely use these techniques and skills throughout the rest of my teaching career!
The next big event in my pre-service time is that I received my student teaching placement! I am so excited to announce that I will be in a 6th grade classroom for the fall semester. I have already met with my cooperating teacher and enjoyed a lunch with her and the elementary school's principal. While it was a little intimidating, I really enjoyed being in the educational conversation and being included in upcoming plans for the students. I begin August 7th and cannot wait to begin my 8 week student teaching experience!
Thats all for now and thank you for reading! I hope everyone is having a great summer and enjoying all of the sunshine!
Love,
Miss Lockhart
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