Nicole+Pribil

=**This wikispace logs Nicole Pribil'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.




 * Justine's Fall 2009 Paraprofessional Placement**
 * School: || St. Agnes Elementary School- Vermillion, SD ||
 * Field-based supervisor: || Jayne Taylor ||
 * Content area or grade level: || 3rd Grade ||
 * FBS e-mail address: || Jayne.Taylor@k12.sd.us ||
 * FBS phone: ||  ||
 * USD instructor || Mary Collins, Phone: 605-677-5155, e-mail: mary.collins@usd.edu ||

10/1 ||  1 hr || Observed physical science. The children were learning how plants reproduce and what the difference is between flowering plants and coniferous plants. They read aloud from their textbooks by 'popcorning' back and forth so others could have a turn to read. They then drew pictures of the lifespan of a plant in booklets and described the cycle. After that, they got out their assignment books and Jayne went around and checked each students books to make sure they had all their assignments written down that are due tomorrow. Those who had all of them correct got stickers. They then lined up at the door, got their things and played a quick round of "Around the World" with addition and multiplication flash cards. ||
 * 30 hours of field-based classroom participation **
 * **Date ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Hours **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Description of my activities/participation in the classroom.... **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * 9/23 || .5 hr || Initial Meeting ||
 * 9/30 || 1 hr || Played/Learned "Circles and Stars" game and used it to practice multiplication tables. I did small group work one on one as well as one with two. I also walked around the class room with Jayne and answered questions students were having while doing book work with estimation problems. ||
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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 10/5 || 1 hr 35 min. || Did "T-Shirt" exercise. The children were split up into groups of 3. Each letter cost 10 cents, and each student figured out how much it would cost to make a T-shirt with their name on it. They then did story problems out of the book dealing with money (dollars and cents). After that, they went back to their desks and Jayne went over the answers with them and explained how to solve each problem. The children then took out their math workbooks, and I worked with 3 children (2 boys and 1 girl) and helped them solve problems in the booklet. The children then went back to their desks again and Jayne began a new lesson while I corrected the booklets the children had just completed. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 10/7 || 1.5 hr || Did problems aloud following along the book. Then the children were given their workbooks to do problems out of them. Ross, Blake, and Claire worked with me in the back again. I helped them with multiplication problems and money problems. We used cut out money to help them count out money and solve problems. We also practiced counting by 2's, 3's, 5's, and 10's. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 10/8 || 1 hr || I helped caculate the levels for reading books by entering them into the computer. The children read the last part of the chapter on living organisms and played 'popcorn' to determine who would read next. After reading, they did the Chapter 1 review in the book. Jayne called on individuals to answer questions and read them aloud. After the review, they had quiet reading time for the 10 minutes at the end of the day while I walked around and checked assignment books. Those who had all the correct assignments written down got a sticker. Then, while waiting in line for the bell to ring, I played the "sparkle" game with them. This is where I read a spelling word aloud, and each child spells the word letter by letter, going down the line. When the last letter is said, the next person yells "sparkle!" and the person after them has to sit out. If one of the kids says the wrong letter they have to sit out as well. This goes on until there is only one person standing. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 10/14 || 1.5 hr || I assisted the kids in math as they finished up their DPP's (Daily Practice Problems). They're focusing on remainders while grouping. (For example, how many groups of 4 can you make with 35 students?). After class, I sat down with Jayne and did our inverview about the standards for the Dept. of Education. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 10/15 || 1 hr || I observed a few minutes of reading/writing time and the end of science class. That day, the kids were having such a good time with their science projects (learning about animals and where their habitats are...they each made an anmial out of clay then painted them, and made habitats for each of them out of shoe boxes) that Jayne decided to continue science class instead of switching gears to religion. So when I arrived, they were now starting religion instead of just starting science. So I observed techniques Jayne did with helping children grasp concepts and they talked about personal space. She then handed out drawings children could color and match words/phrases they would want in their personal circle (ex: love, compliments, etc.). At the end of the day, I played two rounds of Sparkle with the kids before they left. I love playing Sparkle with the kids because they enjoy it so much and it really gets them in a good mood before leaving for home. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 10/19 || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 1 hr 35 mins || I cut out chapes of people while Jayne reviewed concepts of math they learned last week. She then handed out 'stacks and bits', which were tiny blue blocks and some blocks were stacked and glued together in groups of ten. She let the children play with the bits and stacks for 3 minutes while she came to me and gave me a helpful tip of always letting the kids play with new materials, such as the blocks, for a few minutes before starting the lesson. Then, they get it out of their system and are more likely to focus on the lesson rather than be playing with the blocks instead. She then gave problems like, "With 18 blocks, what different ways can we split up the bits to make 18?" and some examples of answers were "Two groups of 9 bits", "1 stack and 8 bits", "3 groups of 6 bits", etc. They did a few more examples of this before she handed out worksheets and had them do their own problems. Blake, Ross and Regan came in back with me and I helped them complete their homework. ||


 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Date **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Hours **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Description of my activities/participation in the classroom.... **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * 10/21 || 1 hr || I helped Luci, Amanda, and Ross in the back with math problems while they learned about telling time and clocks. The children had to do a worksheet and problems out of the book and had to write down what times the clocks showed. The children also each got a plastic clock and Jayne would ask them to show her certian times with the clocks. The most common problem the kids had was telling the difference between the minute and the hour hand. ||
 * 10/22 || 1 hr 10 mins || The children did their science class earlier again, so they did quite reading time and worked on crossword puzzles while I read aloud to them before they left school. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">10/26 || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 1 hr 35 mins || I helped the children with math again, and they were working on counting squares. I worked with Amanda, Blake and Ross at the back table while they finsihed those problems and worked on their DPP's. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 10/28 || 1 hr || The children were working on clocks and telling time again, so I went around the classroom with Jayne and helped kids master the difference between the minute hand and the hour hand and also helped them with their worksheets. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 10/29 || 1 hr 5 mins || The children were working on frankenstein drawings by coloring them and writing a 'story' about their monster. The children finsihed coloring and cutting out the pieces and then read out loud their stories about their monsters. I then played a quick game of sparkle with the kids before they left school for the day. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 11/1 || 1 hr 35 mins || The kids were working on drawing shapes onto a grid paper and then counting the full squares and half squares to find the total of squares used. I worked at the back table with Blake, Luci, and Amanda. Blake has problems copying other kids work, so I was having problems trying to get him to do his own work. While Amanda has problems bragging about her success and putting other kids down about not doing their work correctly so I was having difficultly keeping the three from arguing with each other. Eventually things calmed down, and Jayne helped disipline Blake for cheating. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 11/3 || 1 hr 15 mins || I helped Rachel, Luci, Connor, and Blake with surface area problems. They put drops of water on paper towels then placed them on grid paper. They then counted how many squares were damp and got the surface area. The kids then made graphs in groups (Rachel and Luci, Connor and Blake) and calculated the median of each experiment. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 11/4 || 1 hr 5 mins || Today the kids read outloud during social studies. They're learning about immigrants, and Jayne showed them pictures of Elis Island and talked about her ancestors and they learned about some of the first immigrants in the US and what they went through and why they came. They then answered 2 questions at the end of the chapter about them. I also witnessed disipline: during recess, Blake pushed Maddie and she got hurt. When they came back from recess, Jayne found out about it and talked to both students involved and asked Rachel, a witness, to explain what she saw happen. Then Blake had to write a sorry letter to Maddie. It was the fourth time this week Blake has acted out, so Jayne decided to speak with the principal after school today to discuss other disipline ways. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 11/5 || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 1 hr 5 mins || The kids read aloud in their science books while I leveled books. At the end of the day, I played sparkle with them. ||


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">11/9 || 1 hr 35 mins || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Today I helped the students with math again, having Amanda, Luci, and Blake at the back table. I helped them with subtraction of large numbers, and also helped them learn how to borrow. I helped them with their DPP's and problems out of their text book. ||
 * 11/11 || 1 hr 5 mins || The kids were doing more work with borrowing while subtracting large numbers. I helped Connor, Ross, and Amanda with their problems from the text book and had to watch Connor carefully because he has problems keeping his numbers even on lines and writting too small. ||
 * 11/12 || 1 hr 15 mins || Today I did my co-lesson plan with Jane. We discussed different traditions and holidays in other cultures. We played 'popcorn' as we read aloud from the text book, and then did a table on the smart board writting down what other cultures holidays were called and why they celebrated them. Then, the students filled out a worksheet about it and wrote about what their favorite holiday is and why. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 11/16 || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 1 hr 35 mins || I helped the kids with their math again, and today they were finishing up their DPP's. So I helped Ross, Luci, and Connor at the back table with theirs. They were assigned to do mostly story problems, so I read aloud the stories with them and helped them draw pictures/shapes to help them better understand the problems. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 11/18 || 1 hr 5 mins || Today the kids were working with 'skinnys', 'bits', 'blocks'. These are small squares, representing 1 unit, long skinny strips, representing 10 unites, and large squares, representing 100 units. They did subtraction this way and did base ten problems. I helped Ross, Connor, and Luci with theirs and helped them draw, cross out, and carry blocks to solve the subtraction problems. We then checked our work. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 11/19 || 1 hr 5 mins || I leveled books while the Jayne and the kids read aloud from their books for science. I then played sparkle at the end of the day with the kids. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 11/23 || 1 hr 35 mins || I helped Blake, Luci and Conner in at the backtable with their math. They were working on magic squares. I also helped them with their DPP's. ||
 * 12/3 || 1 hr 15 mins || I gave my lesson plan on Health and the food pyramid. We played pop corn and read aloud, then played a game on the smart board. After the game the kids made their own food pyramids and colored them for the rest of class. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 12/7 || 1 hr 35 mins || Today was my last day. I helped the kids with their math again. I had Ross, Amanda, and Conner at the back table with their chapter review. I then handed out small gift bags that I bought the kids for christmas and watched them play with them for the remainder of class. ||
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