Erin+Budmayr

=**This wikispace logs Erin Budmayr's experiences in the classroom during the fall 2009  (ELED) 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.




 * 's Fall 2009 Paraprofessional Placement**
 * School: || Lincoln Elementary School ||
 * Field-based supervisor: || Carla Hacecky ||
 * Content area or grade level: || First grafe ||
 * FBS e-mail address: ||  ||
 * FBS phone: ||  ||
 * USD instructor || Mary Collins, Phone: 605-677-5155, e-mail: mary.collins@usd.edu ||

(Time Effectiveness)While Mrs. Hacecky takes roll the students either read their library books or complete a page from their 100 day books from the previous day.  || (Classroom Climate) In this classroom there is a lot of the childrens artwork. There is also fun things such as the name and date of the students if they lose a tooth, and their birthdays. Another thing the classroom has is the names of the students who are the leaders that day. || (Constructive Criticism) Today while doing a math assignment one of the students raised his hand to answer the problem 8+6 and gave the answer 1. Mrs. Hacecky then gave the right answer but told the student that would be the correct answer if you to subtract the two numbers. || (Promps) When Mrs. Hacecky called on one of the students to answer how many legs a spider had, the student answered 6. She then told the student to come to the board and count how many legs the picture of the spider had to get the correct number 8. || (Student Interest/Motivation) Before the students return their books to the library, Mrs. Hacecky calls on a few of the students to talk about their book they had read that week and to share with the class some fun things about the book. The children get excited about this and makes them want to always pick out new books to share. || (Independent Practice) After library time the students take a few minutes by themselves to read the books they just picked out || (Objective/Purpose) On this day Mrs Hacecky informed the students that the DARE officer would be coming to talk to them about the importance of safety. She explained what the officer would be talking about, such as not talking to strangers. When the officer left, she and the students reviewed what had just been talked about. || (Student Involvement) Each day Mrs. Hacecky reads a page from a book about the first 100 days of school. After that the students get out their own 100 day book and draw a picture of what they just read. It keeps the students excited for each of the stories every day and lets them know how many days they have been in school. It also allows them to draw what they interpreted || (Guided Practice) During each math assignment Mrs. Hacecky and the students always do half of the assignment together and then the students do the rest of their own. Before the students can move on to another assignment they have to have the teacher check to see if their answers are correct. || (Monitoring/Adjusting) When learning about different shapes each student received a pipe cleaner. Mrs. Hacecky then would tell the studetns to make certain shapes. If the students did not understand how to make a shape or made it wrong she would get her pipe cleaner and demonstrate to the class how to make the shape. || none //Optional:// comment for page history
 * 30 hours of field-based classroom participation **
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10/1 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1.5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">observed, helped color an "its all about me poster"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10/6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1.5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Helped pass out papers, helped with daily journals
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10/13 || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1.5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students were introduced to the classrooms new leap pads
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10/15 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1.5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students learned about spiders. They were read a stories and had to write their own, I went around helping if needed
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10/20 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1.5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students got their own pumpkins, I went around to each boy and girl and helped them measure their pumkins ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">10/22 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1.5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students learned about fire safety. It was also red ribbon week. I went around helping them write in their journals
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10/27 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Went to p.e and the library with the students. The students did stations. The stations were leap pads, read alone, read with a parter, computer activities,or to write in their journal. Each station was about 10 minutes.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10/29 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2.5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dare officer talked to the students. The students also worked on math problems working with adding and subtracting.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">11/3 || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2.5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Helped students with 100 day books. I went around and helped them think of creative things to draw, I also made sure they were spelling everything correcly.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">11/5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Helped the students with their math workbook and 100 day book
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">11/10 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2.5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Veterans day program ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">11/12 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2.5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Started powerpoint with the student. Teacher also reviewed shapes and basic math
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">11/17 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2.5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reviewed the powerpoint with students. I had each student come to the computer to read what they had wrote the previous day. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">11/19 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2.5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Presented lesson plan ||

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