Field Experience Week 4

Hi Everyone!

It's spring break! Rest, and enjoy your time off, but don't forget to keep up with your journals and your portfolio for field experience. Also, don't forget to come back to MHS on April 12th. Your final paper for Anderson is due. I want to extend the due date to the 13th. I'll explain more in class.

Okay - this week, I went to Mauldin Middle, Oakview Elementary and Sara Collins Elementary. I am soooooo proud of the work you all are doing:



Tiffany taught a mini lesson on imagery using the senses. She gave her 7th grade students Hershey kisses and had them to write a few sensory sentences about them.



In Mrs Sanders' 7th grade social studies class, Natalie is working with small groups of students helping them to complete research on World War II.

Meanwhile, over at Oakview Elementary, Casey is working with a kindergarten class. I found her putting bags of jelly beans together for an Easter activity.

Down the hall, Katy is working with Mrs. Szymanska's first grade class. They were studying science, and sang a wonderful song for us. "The sun is a mass of incandescent gas......" Very impressive!!!! I saw Katy lead the kids through Calendar Math. Great job!

Aliyah is working with Mrs. Peay's class. She also has a student teacher. What a great opportunity for all.

Over on the third grade all, I found Miss Meghan and her precious class. We took a class picture, and played the "smile if you love Miss Meghan" game. These students absolutely adore her!

Later in the week, I traveled over to Sara Collins to watch Andrea teach Spanish to Mrs Wilkes class. WOW!!!! I am so impressed with what is going on in that classroom. KUDOS to all of you!

Click on "Comments" below and share your BEST and worst experiences this past week. Enjoy your break. I'll see you when you return! - Mrs T.

Field Experience Week 3

Hi Everyone!

We have now finished three weeks of field experience, and I'm seeing lots of WONDERFUL things! Don't forget to turn in your service hours and educational articles for the quarter. ALSO - you should be interviewing teachers for your final paper for Anderson University. Don't forget that it is due on April 12th - when you return from Spring Break! You will come to Mauldin High that day!!!

This week, I visited Bethel and Mauldin Elementary School!! Over at Bethel, Chelsea E works in the coolest room! She is in a first grade class with Ms McKee. Those kids adore her!

I also watched Kayla teach Mrs. Betsil's kindergarten class. She did a GREAT job with calendar math and the morning routine...a natural teacher!

Over at Mauldin Elementary, I saw Miss Nisha working with Mrs. Rainey's students and Lisa was hard at work cutting out materials for Mrs. Puckett's kindergarten class.

Megan is teaching away in Mrs. Lichoulas's room while Shay and Lorena are hard at work in Miss Quinn's class.

Click on comments below to read about each others' best and worst experiences!

Field Experience Week 2

Hi Everybody

I hope you are still enjoying working with your classes and your cooperating teachers. I have really LOVED watching you all teach. I am so proud of the things you are doing. This week, I got to see Kirsten teach the "opening activity" for Ms. Goldsmith's science class. We learned about earthquakes and an old chinese urn that people historically used to determine the size and location of an earthquake. Apparently, the urn had little balls all around the outside. They would determine the direction and seriousness of the earthquake by which ball fell - and how far. Hmmmmm! ;-)

Then, I visited Kim. She has the cutest little first grade class. They were in a reading group working with their teacher, so Kim got to file papers and organize all of her studnets' folders. - Yes, it's a part of teaching too! ;-)


Back at the high school, Kenzi was also hard at work in her English class grading papers!













Finally, I closed out the week visiting Senor Jose and Ms. Larrain's Spanish 4 Honors class. He taught them a wonderful song by Aventura called Un Segundo Mas. Be sure to leave your comments about YOUR best and worst thing that happened this week. Don't forget we will visit our pen pals next Friday March 19th!

Service Hour Opportunities & Articles to Read

· Buckets of Hope – Lists are located on the bulletin board – Due FRI –Mar 12th

· Teacher Appreciation Gifts (ask businesses or donate $5 gift cards)

· Saturday, March 27 – Extreme School Make-over School for the Deaf and Blind 9am.

· March Teacher of the Month ShamrocksIf you still need to read educational articles this quarter, check out the links on the right column for Edutopia, THE Journal and Teaching Tolerance. Also, I have included links to some on-line articles that I found interesting. Have fun!
Mean Chics and Ugly Cliques
Half a Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Building a New Business Model

Field Experience Week 1

Hi Everyone! All of the cadets are out in their first week of Field Experience. I had the privilege of seeing Johnakin teach .....hmmm....math stuff. Since I haven't seen tangent, cotangent, secent and cosecent in 20 years, I was, well, a little rusty in class. It was a review! - BINGO!!! I had a BLAST! I only got 4 questions right, but hey - that's pretty good for missing the actual teaching part! Excellent work!



So, I also visited Chelsea S. She was grading a HUGE amount of papers, and Mrs. Shea said she is a great worker! I popped my head in on Kenzi and Philip. Their classes were watching movies, so I moved along. I'm looking forward to seeing more next week! Keep up the good work!
Click on "Comments" below and leave your BEST and WORST experience from the week. Be sure to write your name next to your entry. Click on "Anonymous" before publishing! Have fun reading about each other's experiences! Miss you much!

- Mrs. Turner