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=**This wikispace logs Katie Scott'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.


 * Katie Scott's Fall 2009 Paraprofessional Placement**
 * School: || Austin Elementary, Vermillion, SD ||
 * Field-based supervisor: || Vanessa Prasnicki ||
 * Content area or grade level: || Kindergarten ||
 * FBS e-mail address: || vanessa.prasnicki@k12.sd.us ||
 * 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;"> ||
 * 9/29 || .5 || Initial Meeting ||
 * 9/30 || 1.25 || Observed FBS instruct students on how to write letters. Assisted students in writing letters to Miss Prasnicki. helped with clean up of the room and helped students get papers together and back packs on to go home. ||
 * 10/1 || 1 || Observed a reading lesson in children's corner. Then assisted with center work. Center work divides the kids up into groups and allows them to work on various activities. While I assisted with whatever the kids needed, my FBS pulled various students aside and gave them independent reading lessons. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 10/2 || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 1.75 || I completed my partnership duty with my FBS, I observed and assisted with recess duty. Then the kids had birthday snacks for another students birthday while they watched a Dr. Suess movie. After the movie, the kids had circle time where they discussed the color green. The students were asked to name anything that is colored green. After cirlce time, I placed the take home papers in all of the students planners. I then helped with putting back packs on and getting them out the door. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 10/6 || 1 || Observed my FBS teach a lesson on the letter M. The students were given a large print poem and had to take turns circling words that began with M. After this circle time, the students were then supposed to go to center time. During center time, I helped students with a "go fish" reading game. During center time, the FBS pulled students aside and worked on reading skills with them. When students completed their center work, they were allowed to do other free time exercises that will increase reading and spelling skills. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 10/7 || 1.25 || When I first arrived students were picking up their math centers. Once they were ready for the next activity, the students began their second lesson on how to write letters. The Star Student, Olivia,was interviewed this week and the student wrote letters based on her interviews. Once the students were done with their letters, they were required to draw a picture of them and Olivia together. After the were all done with their letters and drawings, the students had "ICCY" time which is a time allotted for creativity and imagination. They are allowed to play dress up or have free time. At the end of the day, I helped students put books in their backpacks and helped them to get ready to go home. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 10/9 || 1.25 || Talked to FBS about when to set up interview. Then I checked and corrected students agendas. While the students made their corrections with my help, the FBS performed her final assessments of individual students to prepare for parent teacher conferences. After the students were done, they had ICCY time again where they were able to do whatever they wanted. After ICCY time, the FBS put a Barney movie on that helped the students learn more about their ABC's. While movie was playing, I cut out work to prepare for next week center time. I also assisted the FBS by stamping dates on student's work to place in the students academic assessment portfolio. After the movie was over, we had circle time and read part of a book and then it was time to go. The FBS and I helped the students with their backpacks and coats to go home. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 10/13 || 1 || Observed a lesson on the family of "at". Watched the kids demonstrate knowledge of what sound the letter a makes and what words have the word "at" in it. They learned a new song that went along with the theme of the letter a. I prepared center work that will be handed out next week. I also helped students with this weeks center work while my FBS did student assessments for conferences. I also began to prepare book order forms for students to take home in their planners. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 10/14 || 1.5 || Observed FBS do assessments on students for conferences and NCLB report card. I then was assigned to pull eight assigned students assigned and work on number, counting one to one hundred. When I completed that my FBS let me lead the class and instruct them to clean up so that I could a movie in. Was the students picked up, I put a movie in that taught the students ABC's. When the movie was over, I helped the students pick up their centers and get their coats and back packs on. When school was let out, I completed my interview with my FBS. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 10/16 || 1.25 || Today when I arrived at in the classroom the students were just finishing up with recess so I was instructed to draw 17 jelly fish so that the kids could cut them out and they could be hung around the room. The theme this week for the classroom was the ocean so my FBS wanted to decorate the room with an ocean theme for conferences. After I drew the jellyfish, I traced all of the students hands on red construction paper so that they could be glued together to make crabs. After all of the kids cut the hand out and the jelly fish I went around and wrote their names on all of the projects. When all of their projects were done, Miss Prasnicki had them fill out their agendas and get them checked. I then put all of the students take home papers in their mail tills. When the day was done, I helped students fill their backpacks and get ready to go. Before the bell rang, I observed a mini reading lesson. ||
 * 10/20 || 1 || Today, I observed a lesson that was taught on the "at" families and the "am" families. Students were asked to think of words that contained at or am in them. After the mini lesson, students were asked to go to do their center work. During center work, my FBS pulled students aside to inivdually review the at and am families. I observed these individual evaluations of knowledge. Once more students had completed their center work, I helped certain students with a catipellar letter game. Students were required to match lower case letters to their corresponding upper case letters. ||||||  ||
 * 10/22 || 1 || Today, my FBS had me perform the reading lesson. I read the story to the class then asked them questions to review and check for comprehension. Then after that, instead of observing individual time with the FBS I performed the individual time with the students. I had three students who I had pulled aside and worked on the "am" and "at" families and checked for knowledge on their WWW words. After I was done with individual time, I observed and helped with center work. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 10/27 || 1 || Today, I arrived and discussed ideas with my FBS about lesson plans. Then I observed her do individual group evaluations and assistance. She had groups of 4 and had them work on their WWW or their reading level books. She showed me what the reading level assessments look like for the students. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 10/28 || 1.25 || Today when I arrived I helped unwrap crayons for an art project the students were going to do. When the students got back into the classroom, I helped the teacher perform the art lesson. While the student participated in ICCY time, my FBS called 2 students at a time back to the table to complete the project. While my FBS ironed the crayons down, I stapled them onto a leaf shaped cut out. The final project was supposed to be like a stained glass window. When all the kids were done, I helped clean up the mess. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 10/29 || 2 || Today, I helped students with questions they had pertaining to the pumpkin book they were constructing. Once they were done with their book, the students gathered for reading time on the mat. I read them a story about animals in the grasslands and asked them questions periodically throughout the story about what types of animals live in a grassland. When the story was done, the students were to go do their center work. While they they did their center work, my FBS called groups of 4 students aside based on reading level and had them read mini books to her and say their WWW words and work on certain words that were in the story. I observed her do this to all the groups. When all of the groups were done, my FBS helped my figure out what she wanted me to do for my lesson plan and when I will be doing it. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 10/30 || 3 || Today, the kids went to the pumpkin patch when I got there. I helped students with picking their pumpkins and getting on and off the bus. When they got back to their school, the students had to go to in for library time. I watched library time. The librarian let them pick out a new library book. When all the students had picked out their book the librarian had reading time where she read two stories to them for Halloween. When library time was over, I took the students back to their classroom where they got ready for recess. After I helped with recess duty, the students came back inside where they were to finish center work. During center work, I observed a group time lesson. When center time was over, My FBS put a movie in for the students to watch. After the movie, I read two Halloween stories to them before they went home. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 11/3 || 1 || Today, I did my co teaching lesson plan. I started off with group time. I pulled three students aside and worked on the book, "Cam the Cow" after they had worked their way through the book, I had them go over their at, am, and ap families. When group time was over, I rounded up all the students and had them get on the mat for story time. My lesson was over reading comprehension. I read a story to them and I asked them questions throughout the story. After the story, I went over the concepts of the letter Cc and the sound /k/. I had the students pull out the word chart and we read through the poem together. When that was over, I had students circle words that started with the /k/ sound. After that lesson, I wrote words on the board that reviewed the at, am, ap families. Next, I taught them numbers as adjectives and how you make sentences with numbers. To dismiss the students to lunch, I had them tell me one number adjective with a noun or a /k/ word. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 11/4 || 1.25 || Today, I helped my FBS with creating a go fish game for a future center project. While I was doing this the class did a letter assignment with my FBS. When I was done with the game, I went around and helped correct letters. When the students were done they had time for ICCY ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 11/5 || 1 || Today the hour I went was mostly focused on center work. While my FBS worked with focused reading groups, I was in charge of monitoring center groups. My FBS wanted me to emphasis the point of quiet voices so that she could have a productive reading group. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 11/6 || 1.25 || Today was pajama day for the students so when I first arrived they had a slumber party while I read to them. After the story, they watched a blues clues movie that was focused around the theme of pajama party. During the movie I helped my FBS pass out m&m's to the students who earned them during the week through her new positive reinforcement program. After that her and I had discussions on certain types of discipline techiniques and how she performs parent teacher conferences. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 11/10 || 1 || Today, I read a story to the students about where animals live in the winter. I asked questions periodically throughout the story to assess reading comprehension. When the story was over, I was in charge of center work and to make sure that all the students stayed on track with their assignments and got them completed. I assisted a student with a learning disability to make sure they fully completeled their work. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 11/12 || 1 || Today, I checked students work off in the grade work to make sure they completed it as they handed it to me. I was in charge of keeping focus during center time. I helped the same student who has a LD. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 11/17 || 1 || Today, I began by reading a story to the students. After the story was done, they were dismissed for center time. During center time, I kept students on task. I also had certain students show me reading and reading comprehension through individual work. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 11/18 || 1 || Today, I went around the room and help students put together their "friends" book. After I was done with that, I helped trace hands and feet for an art project that will be done tomorrow where the students will make turkeys. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 11/19 || 1 || Today, I assisted a girl who has needs to help her finish her center work. After that, I had students read me their stories for the week and helped them sound out their words. When center work was completed, I helped the students clean up their centers. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 11/20 || 1 || When I went on Friday, I observed a sharing circle. This was very similar to a show and tell. The students were to bring in an item that was of the color pink. While the students did this, some students who were behind on their work finished their assignments. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 11/24 || 2 || Today, I read two stories to the students. After reading the stories, I helped several students correct work and get caught up on center work. Then, I helped students play phonics games. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 12/1 || 1 || Today, I assisted one student who has been trouble with reading and writing. We worked together constructing "am", "an", "ip" and "ab" family words. When I was done helping him, I went and observed center work. During center work, I helped a couple of students with their personal work. When that work was completed I observed a reading lesson. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 12/2 || 1 || Today, I observed my first math lesson. My FBS demonstrated the importance of length to the students. She showed them what shorter and longer meant. After the lesson, students were to walk around the room and find things that were either shorter or longer than their six cubes. After the lesson was completed, my FBS allowed the students to participate in free time (ICCY). ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 12/3 || 1 || Today, I helped with center time. Then I pulled 4 groups aside. In the first group, we worked on WWW and practicing writing "at" and "ap" family words. In the second group, I worked with three students and we worked on reading through a group. I then broke that group up individually so that they each had a chance to read the book to me. The thrid group had an even harder book and they were to read the book themselves silently, then out loud to me then silently again. The last group session was more individualized in which I worked with one boy on a book and we sounded out each word he had trouble with. ||  ||   ||   ||