Josh+Butrous

T =**This wikispace logs Josh's experiences in the classroom during the fall 2009  (choose one) 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: || Jolley Elementry School ||
 * Field-based supervisor: || Mrs. Fishbach ||
 * Content area or grade level: || 5th grade ||
 * FBS e-mail address: || kelly.fishbach@k12.us.sd ||
 * FBS phone: ||  ||
 * USD instructor || Mary Collins, Phone: 605-677-5155, e-mail: mary.collins@usd.edu ||

she uses and the meathods of teaching Mrs. Fishbach uses. I observed that there are kids that are lazy and do not want to work. it is harder to keep these kids motivated. I observed what they do for warms ups they do shuttle runs to warm up and walk around the gym to warm down. There is very limited time for the students to interact and play learn certain sporst cause there is only 27 minutes of Phyical Education time. That is what I learned my first day observing || watnt to run or skip as a warm up they just try making excuses to the teacher and just walk or sit against the wall, and she is in the process of finding ways to modivate those kids. I learned from Mrs. Fishbach class that you need to be assertive, demanding, commanding and to have a plan of action or the kids will walk all over you. I learned that you need to have a plan on what to do in certain situations. What I also learned is that there are no adaptive PE classes of students in this grade level in Jolley Elementry.All the kids are put in one calss until they get the fitness test done to determine if they need to be placed in adaptive PE classes. What I learned as a observer is that there are different techniques that Mrs. Fishbach uses to get students to perform and listen. For Example I learned taht whe the teacher tells the students what to do and the kids are loud that being quiet will cause the students to be quiet cause they know if they don't they will be in trouble. The last observation of the day was that the kids were still throwing the ball wrong when playing Dodgeball bowling so Mrs. Fishbach demonstrated it again to the class so they can be reasurred everyday how to do the skills and understand the rules correctly. ||
 * 30 hours of field-based classroom participation **
 * **Date ** || **Hours ** || **Description of my activities/participation in the classroom.... ** ||
 * 10/6 || 1 hour || I observed the class room and basically how she runs the classroom the routines
 * 10/8 || 1 hour || Today in Mrs Fishbach's Class I obsderved that some of the kids in her fifth grade class do not
 * 10/9 || 1 hour || Today in class I observed the students on friday morning and what I concluded was that some students by friday do not really want to participate in activities and do not wear the proper atire to class. This is an example of **__Focus__ The teacher provided extra warm up exercises to get the kids fired up and ready to performa nd learn.** They started the day with the shuttle run to warm up, a walk around the gym to cool down and they stretched to get ready for the activity of the day. I learned that every two weeks the class does something different. This is becasue the students can learn and retain and have the knowledge of the sport or activity. Today I also interviewed Mrs. Fishbach on the interview questions on the standards. ||
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1 hour || Today in class I saw that every two weeks Mrs. Fishbach does different warms ups to get the kids active and ready to go for the day. Today She had the kids run, jog or skip around the gym for 2 to 3 minutes. After that the students walked around the gym to catch there breath. I Had a new role this week other then observating I got to lead the class in there stretching activities. Today in class they were playing a new game called Jewel theif. Mrs. Fishbach explained the roles of the game and answered questions for student that did not understand, so they can fully understand the rules and regulations of the game. The students looked engaged and excited to play.

Today in class I observed the students as they did there warm up work out what I learned is that as a teacher I need to keep the kids involved and push them and encourage them to live a better lifestyle. Mrs. Fishbach told me that she tries to have the students do different warm up each week so they do not get bored of the same routine. Each student has different activities and warm ups they like. When the kids were done warming up they got their breath back by walking around the gym twice and lining up in four single file lines for stretching. I was the leader for the kids with their stretching. While I was stretching with the students Mrs. Fishbach set up the activity for the kids to perform today. After stretching Mrs. Fishbach explained the rules and the object of the game to the students. Then any questions the students have she answered and explained with great detail. Today in class we played Prison ball and the object of that game is like dodge ball except there is a person on opposite sides of the court that the person has to go to when they get out. When balls come their way they have to make a basket to get out of prison and back on their own side in the game. It only takes one basket for a person and everyone in the prison to get out. The kids seemed to have a good time and a lot of fun playing prison ball. ||
 * 10/27 || 1 hour || Today in class it was the same routine as Yesterday. I lead the stretches with the students while Mr. Fishbach set up the gym with the activity of the day, and the activity of the day was prison ball. She clearly specified the rules and regulations and answered anyone questions on the game they were playing. I explained the day before what prison ball was and how the game is played. What I learned from the teacher is that she changes her activity every week or other week depending on how many the kids enjoy the game. What I observed today was that the kids do not always get along with each other and some act out and throw fits and call other kids names. I found out how Miss fishbach deals with that type of behavior by enforcing the three strike rule. I also observed that if kids are being picked on because of appearance that the same rules are enforced and action needs to be taken to make sure that behavior like that does happen to kids that our under developed, or developed early or our picked on because of different gender and ethnicity. Mrs. Fishbach enforces this by using the three strike rules as well and if actions get worse the students are talked to the principal and then parents are informed and action will be taken to correct this. What Mr. Fishbach told me is that this does not generally happen because the kids are too young to know the difference between the development of how children grow and develop. ||
 * 10/29 || 1 hour || Today in class I observed the class during there warm up the kids played a halloween game called Witch and Warlocks, the kids seemed to have alot of fun except some of them had attitude problems and some need to be corrected in that and some did not want to work and needed to be motivated to work hard. After the students did there warm up they lined up for stretching with me. While we were all stretching, as usual Mr. Fishbach set up the activity for the day. I Observed one of the ten criteria observation of effective teaching today. the one I obvserved was the **Monitering and Adjusting.** Mrs. Fishbach before letting the kids perform in there activity on asking them questions on the rules and how to play the game to see if they remembered. retained and understood the information she presented about the game the other day. The students answered questions Mrs. Fishbach asked the students to see if they remembered how the game was palyed and the rules of the game. After that the students played prison ball and they had fun playing the game and they performed better cause they new how to play the game. ||
 * 11/2 || 1hour || Today in class I observed pretty much the same thing as last time. I am trying to learn everyones name and having the class take me seriously and show respect. Mrs. Fishbach is allowing me to get more involved with the students and she is just basically teaching me certain things as a teacher. I observed that she quizes her students on the activities everytime now before the activity and she grades them on it. She trys doing cardio workouts that the students like the most, to keep the less active students more involved in everyday activites. What I observed about myself is that I need to be more authoritive in the class room and I started to today while I was stretching with the group. I made sure they were listening doing what I told them to do and taking me seriously, but the most important thing is that we all were having fun. I set up times to start my teaching lesson with the teacher and without the teacher. I am nervous but I am getting prepared for it and Mrs. Fishbach is there for me all the way. Today the kids played prision ball and they new the game really well, it is hard to get the naughty kids involved it is a process but I belive that with time we will succed. ||
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2 hours || Today in class started off in a rough spot cause the kids were not behaving and the one and different things that I observed is that one of the Students had to sit at the wall cause he was being bad. He was misbehaving and he had three strikes and he violated all of them. The students played the same game that they played the other day prison ball. they were once again quized on the game and answered questions correctly. the one thing that I thing was most important that I learned is that I need to be hard and autoritive on the kids now so they respect me. They are defiant and there needs to be rules and as a teacher every person sets different rules. So I thought that when I do my lesson plan that I need to inforce rules of the class room and I need to start doing that whenever I personally am dealing with them in the class room. Overall the day went really well.

Today in class was like anyother day The kids did there warm ups they walked around the gym twice and lined up for stretching. Today for that group was the last day to play prison ball. Again Mrs. Fishbach quized them to see if they new the rules or not. They did. After the first group got done Mrs. Fishbach son who is disabled he has one leg came in and Mrs. Fishbach showed the class his gold metal in the speical olympics. By showing the calss this she was trying to show them that even some one diabled can succed in sports and in athletics. Dylan her son played with the class today. By doing that they made the kids cooperate more and work harder, plus i thought it was interesting cause not everyday do you get to see somthing like that.

Today the the group that I worked with played prison ball for the last time. **__Student intrest and Modivation__** **The kids seemed to really love this game and were really involved in it. the students worked as a team and really enjoyed the game.** Today i noticed that the students are starting to respect my authority and respect me more as a teacher. There were a few kids that were misbahaving but othere then that the class when very smoothly. What i noticed today is that she divides the groups up relatively the same to keep some of the kids from fighting. At the start of the game she gives it to the ones who are behaving and are not getting into trouble. Mrs. Fishbachs classes are generally the same except some days are better then others. I also discussed briefly about the lesson plan I was going to teach that i would have it written up and that I would go over it with her to see if everything is ok with it and that she has all the materials with it to perform and do this activity. We also disscussed briefly on the topic of when to do the lesson plan and for me to teach a lesson and what specific date that would be on. Today in class i noticed anotherr observation for effective teaching. This was **student Modivation.** This activity was played alot cause the students seemed to enjoy it. They played and worked well together as a team. it was like dodge ball and basketball at the same time. The kids seemed to enjoy it so it was played more often them most of the other activities cause this activity got students to play and stay activiy as a team.

kids played fly fish fly as a warm up and then they stretched with me. Mrs. Fishbach is getting me more involved with the kids everyweek I observe the class room. Today in class would be a arobics and cardio work out for the kids. **__Objective Purpose__** **She stated to the kids why this is important for them to get in shape and to get bigger and stronger and she made this activity fun in a way of playing Uno. Each card had a value of any arobic workout.** We played Uno workout. Every card had a meaning. The red card meant push ups and the number on the card meant how many times they had to do it ( the repitions). The Yellow card meant sit ups, the Blue card meant jumping jacks, and the Green meant mountain climbers. the cards that said skip on it means that the kids have to skip twice around the gym. A reverse card means to walk around the gym backwards twice. The last two cards are the wild cards. The regular wild means that the person gets to choose what activity they want to do and the plus 4 wild means that the student has to do four of everything. The kids seemed to enjoy it and they had alot of fun. I as a observers got to know another step in getting involved in the students lives and I am getting more experienced as a potential teacher.

Today in class The class played Uno fitness. They were not so enthusiastic about the whole experience as they after to days of doing were getting tired of the activitiy. **__Indepent practice.__ The students knew what each card value was and the activities they do for arobics they already need to do and the only thing that needed to be stressed was making sure they say involved with the activity which there were. It is easier to monitor just keeping kids involved rather then running throught the steps for an new skill**. Mrs. Fishbach and I were trying to keep the students as activity as possible casue I noticed that everyday the students were doing this activity the studendt act out more cause possibly this activity is not as fun as all the othere games they play. This activity that they are doing is more fundamentally on sports fitness instead of play, yet the kids need to get more physically active and this is a good way of doing that.

Today was a interesting class as there was a sub today in class. The students acted out more and missbehaved. The regular teacher was not there to keep the structure in the classroom. Yet all and all the kids did there activity and made it through the day. I as a teacher observer got to act more with the kids in telling what to do and was put on the spot more. It was great to work with them more and exciting to start doing more of that in the future.

Today in class we played a new game called communitive kick ball the kids really seemed to enjoy it and they had a lot of fun with the game. The boys seemed to fight over positioning of the bases and the calls on when a persons out. It took one ining for the kids to get the hang of the game. This game incorperated alot of time work and togetherness. The object of the game is to pitch the ball the person on the other team kicks it. That person runs around the bases and the ball has to be thrown and caught by every person on the base and that person has to touch the plate in order to get a person out. The game is easy and can be hard. The kids really enjoyed it and i kept score. The next day i will be doing a lesson with Mrs. Fishbach.

Today was my lesson with the teacher today in class i worked with the kids and Mrs. Fishbach with comunicative kick ball. I pitch the balls said if the kids were safe and out. I lead them in there stretching and I kepts the kids in line. I I observed is that teaching is not like it seems and that you have to earn the resepct of students. There will be kids that will defy your teachings and rules and there needs to be a proper way to handle that. I must remember to stay firm and to teach and set the rules and be serious about it. All and all I think it was a good experience getting me warmed up for when I teach a lesson by myself. Know I need to build on this experience.

Today in class the class played again pin dodge ball, this is a game where the students must guard three pins. Before the activity the kid learned the rules of the game. Mrs. Fishbach explained the rules and quized the kids on the rules. The students were a little slugish because of the long weekend, so Mrs. Fishbach had to get the kids fired up during there warm up. Today the teacher used **guided practice** in here lecture today. After explaining the rules and how the game is played she game the students the opportunity to play the game to see if the students retained the information after instruction. After the lesson/ game was over she quized them on what they did great on and what they need to work on and what they did wrong. All and all it was a really good class. I got the class fired up in there stretching to get them more alert and awake. Good class day.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Today in class there was a substitute teacher teaching the class and he made the kids play kickball, all the kids had fun playing this game and where excited to learn and what I noticed is that there was a good **classroom climate.** The kids were behaving and they were attentive to what Mr. Bowman the substitute teacher had to say. I kids followed the rules and were having a lot of fun. The appearance of the classroom was clean and there were bases set up, a score board, and all the proper equipment was there and needed for this class. To fifth graders they like activities that they can enjoy and have fun with, which in turn gets them to have fun and work hard doing so, and, our goal is to get kids more physically active and with a great classroom climate, helps get them there. The teacher explained the rules carefully and made sure students understood and properly instructed them during the game, so they played the game fairly, and properly.

Today in class we played jewel thief and it was a interesting class cause for a warm up we played a game where there are four hula hoops and each one has 7 bean bags in them and the object of the game its to get the most bean bags in the there own hula hoop at the end, the only thing is that they either have to gallop or skip to do it. The whole time that they are playing this there is chrismas music playing like it is a chrismas activity for the kids. Of course as usual i lead them in stretching and then they played jewel thief. they knew how to play the game and were knowledgable on that aspect except Mrs. Fishbach explained the rules again to reasure the student that they understood the content. All and all it was a good class day. **__Construtive Critisim__ while Mrs. Fishbach quized them she made sure that the students knew the rules and asked them questions about it and make sure that she called on at least 4 to 5 students to make sure that they got the rules of the game down before playing.**

Today in class was like any other day we played dodgeball bowling with pins, where the student have to knock down three pins on the opposing players side. There are people blocking the pins and people trying to get knock the pins down. This was also the first game that i saw the kids participate when i first started my para professional with Mrs. Fishbach. It was intresting to see how the kids kept all the knowledge of how to play the game. When i first saw the students play i noticed that the kids did not know the best way to play the game. Know the kids have strategies and a better order of thinking when it comes to playing the game. I noticed an improvement in there competive thinking and in the fact that they are more confident when playing the game.

Today in the kids played the same game they did on tuesday. One thing that i noticed was that the naughty kids in the class are starting to try more when it comes to the activities they do but there are a few that still are defiante and do not want to listen or perform. **__Student involvement.__ There were alot more student involvement now and know the kids are becoming more involved with each game they play and are really having fun the teacher encourages the students to try hard and helps they wilth task they are having trouble with.** It is sometimes frustrating as a teacher to get them to listen but I view it as a challenge to get kids to learn to better there life. The students still played dodgeball pinball and they seemed like they had alot of fun with it.

today is a great day cause today i get to teach the class. I came in fired up and ready to go. I had the kids warm up with five minutes of running, jogging and skipping. Then i had the kids stretch and i picked to leaders to lead the stretching.As the kids where stretching i set up the gym for the activity that we were going to play After the kids stretched i divded them up into two teams and i explained the game of Ultimate football. I expliand the rules and how to play the game. Kelly Fishbach assisted me on showing the kids how to pass to another player and how many steps you can take when you have posession of the ball. The rules of the game is that there are no tackleing and a person can intercept the ball at anytime and when a ball is droped another person from the other team takes possetion of the ball the object of the game is to get from oneside of the gym to score and the person with the ball can only take one step before they have to throw the ball to another opponet. It incorporates team work and skill, such as hand eye cordnation. After i explained the game I had one team get jerseys and them i let them play the game. At first it was a little difficult but they quickly progressed and they really seemed to enjoy the activity and i really liked the fact that i taught them an activiy made me feel like a teacher already. It felt really good.

Today in class was my last class day and when i arrived the class was doing something interesting. The music class and the dance class were all in the gym danceing to richard sims. **__Prompts__ in this video that they were watching it had a lot of prompts to it when it told and help kids perform certain tasks and when the kids were having trouble performin these task such as dancing mrs. Fishbach would come over and demonstrate and have the students do it with her so they can be lead in the the right direction and achieve success.** The class seemed to like it they kids that were naughty did not want to dance they wanted to talk to there friends and kelly and i had to seperate them so they would pay attention and listen. This was new to me as I have never seen a PE class taught like this. It was intresting in the fact it opened up new ideas for me in the future when i become a teacher on a meathod of teaching that i can and probably use in the futrue. This field experience was good for me I learned alot and hope to learn more everyday. ||