Jesse+Hofland

=**This wikispace logs Jesse's experiences in the classroom during the fall 2009  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: || Akron-Westfiled ||
 * Field-based supervisor: || Julie Ludwigs ||
 * Content area or grade level: || DK-5th ||
 * FBS e-mail address: || jludwigs@akron-westfield.k12.ia,us ||
 * FBS phone: ||  ||
 * USD instructor || Mary Collins, Phone: 605-677-5155, e-mail: mary.collins@usd.edu ||

taught their classes || by the teacher, and I helped out with keeping score for one of the games played || that the smaller children played, also helped with being an ump in kickball || goal using only other balls you throw, Helped younger kids with a scooterboad activity, and help split up and pick teams for a game of kickball. || a Halloween game, helped with another scooter board activity, and pick teams for kickball. || ump a kickball game. || Effective Teaching __**Focus**__-Date:10/15-Mrs. Ludwigs would have them run for a warm up and would take roll as they came by __**Objective**__-Date:11/3-Mrs. Nealisen had traffic signs around the gym floor and then she told the class that they would learn about traffic safety. __**Monitoring**__-Date:10/29-Mr. Lundt was setting up a kickball game and then whenever someone had a question he would repeat it so everyone could hear it and would answer it. __**Guided Practice**__-Date:10/20-Mrs. Nealisen would have everyone go though the obsticle course as a group and have them stop at every obsticle to make sure they knew what to do. __**Student Interest**__-Date:10/22-Mr. Lundt started kickball on this date and everyone liked it and they all were quite when he explained the rules so they could start quicker. __**Constructive Criticsim**__-Date:10/27-Mrs. Nealisen would help people sit on the scooter boards right by telling them what parts could go on the scooter.
 * 30 hours of field-based classroom participation **
 * **Date **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">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;"> ||
 * 10/15 || 4 || I watched multiple PE classes, and saw how different PE teachers
 * 10/20 || 4 || I helped with the setting up and taking down of an obstacle course made
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 10/22 || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 4 || Helped set up the obstacle course and helped out with some of the games
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 10/27 || 4 || I helped with setting up a game where you had to get the ball across the other teams
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 10/29 || 4 || Learned that a volleyball court is the correct size for the shuttle run, and then help set up
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 11/3 || 3 || Helped with setting up and showing how to use hula hoops, helped ump a kickball game. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 11/5 || 3 || Showed what i would be helping to co-teach which was juggling scarves, and set up and help
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 11/10 || 2 || Showed two classes how to juggle with one scarf, and one class to juggle with two scarves. ||
 * 11/12 || 2 || Showed one class how to juggle one scarf, and one to juggle two and three scraves. ||

Working Journal __**Working with a small group**__: I had to watch a group in one coner of the gym as all the students got spilt up into groups and mine were jump ropes and I had to make sure that all the students did not mess around with them. This helped me out alot because now I think in the future I will be able to control a classroom better.
 * __Making a Lesson Plan__**: I had to make a lesson plan to do on my own but I was given a website to go to by my teacher and it had so many lesson plans that I was glad I was given one to look up and it was how to juggle scarves. I think that this was something very important to me because now I have an internet site where I can look up any lesson plan for any grade.
 * __Co-Teaching__**: I was told I could use the same lesson for my Co-Teaching as my solo teaching, so when my teacher and I set up this way I was going to tech them just the basics about how to properly toss and catch the scarf, and then she was going to show them how to do mulitple scarves.

​ Analysis of Lesson __**What they Learned**__: They learned to properly juggle scarves. __**What did I think about when planning the lesson**__: I wanted to make it as clear as I could to them so that everyone would have a chance to be able to juggle, and not get frusted if they couldn't do it. __**Most effective part of the lesson**__: I think it was showing them the motions and then letting them try it out right after me, and it was becasue it was fresh in their minds then. __**Follwing the Lesson Plan**__: I stayed with my lesson plan pretty close, I devaited form it a little bit but only if something i did or said didn't make sense or if I needed to add something. __**Visual Aids**__: Visual aids were very important becasue without them I couldn't have showen them how to juggle properly. __**Changes**__: I would use more key set up words for the motions so that they could remeber it easier. __**Teaching strengths**__: I think that my teaching strengths are my ablity to help people understand things that others might make hard to understand and I also think I'm good at understanding how it feels to not be able to do something so if someones is having trouble I know what it's like and can help them. __**Goal**__: I would like for any of my three teachers to be able to help me be a better classroom manger and to take more control of my classroom but not by fear but by respect.
 * __Did the students Learn__**: Yes I think they did because they all had a hard time at the start but when it was over with they all almost could do two scraves.
 * __How I know they Learned__**: They all could almost juggle two at the end when only a few could do it at the start.