Andi+VanHove

=**This wikispace logs Andrea VanHove's experiences in the classroom during the fall 2009 PE 296 ****Paraprofessional Experience **=

 This is the first field experience of the teacher education program. Its purpose is to provide insight into the real world of teaching in the K-8 and 7-12 setting. It provides a “hands-on” experience in which students may ask questions and share concerns they may have regarding the teaching profession. The experience will provide an opportunity to observe, record, and assess student behavior, effective teaching practices, and characteristics of different learning environments appropriate for children. This course will provide structure and guidance for the students as they observe, gather information, and reflect on teaching as a career. John Dewey, one of the most famous American educators, wrote extensively about reflective teaching. He defined reflective teaching as avoiding the “routine” and “impulsive” behaviors in favor of taking the time to “give serious consideration” to our actions. According to Dewey, the intelligent person thinks before he or she acts, and action becomes deliberate and intentional. In order for students to secure knowledge and insight from the field experience, their observations and participation have to be made with careful, analytical, and deliberate planning. Paraprofessional students develop their leadership skills while contributing to, learning from and influencing the learning of others.




 * Andrea VanHove's Fall 2009 Paraprofessional Placement**
 * School: || Elk Point Jefferson ||
 * Field-based supervisor: || Lee Clark ||
 * Content area or grade level: || Elementary/Middle school PE ||
 * FBS e-mail address: || lee.clark@k12.us.edu ||
 * FBS phone: ||  ||
 * USD instructor || Mary Collins, Phone: 605-677-5155, e-mail: mary.collins@usd.edu ||


 * 30 hours of field-based classroom participation **
 * **Date ** || **Hours **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Description of my activities/participation in the classroom.... **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> ||
 * 10/7 || 1.5 || Met with Lee Clark to exchange expectations and get a tour of the school. ||
 * 10/14 || 2 || 6th grade CPR class - The students practiced CPR on Anne manikins ||
 * 10/15<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> || 4<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> || I observed two first grade classes, one eighth grade class, and a fifth grade class play pac-man. ||
 * 10/20<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> || 4 || I observed one third grade class and one fifth grade class stretch play pac-man again ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 10/22 || 4 || The first grade classes again played pac-man with new added rules. For the eighth graders, I helped students different exercises. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 10/27 || 4 || This week was the exercise stations with burpies, bellclappers, lunges, and push-ups and so on. We watched the kids with what worked and what did not in order to perfect the stations later. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 10/29 || 4 || Each class played a bean bag game. Every student had, while in the push-up position, tries to slide their beanbag between the opponents hands. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 11/3 || 4 || This day I worked on the bulletin board outside of the gym. In class, the students played capture the flag. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 11/5 || 4<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> || On my last day, I taught my own class of first graders. We went over a few different tag games and the students were very responsive. ||