Today we talked about our expirience in the elementary classrooms. It was very interesting to hear about the different things everybody saw especially hearing Jessica tell us about the teacher Elizabeth went to who sung everything. We also briefly learned about the social and moral developments of different age groups. The class ended with Mrs. Turner telling us about her lovely birthday weekend with her husband which was very cute:)
Tuesday:
Today we had an amazing guest speaker named Kelly Nally who was the SC state teacher of the year. She was a very entertaining speaker that spoke with us about the joys and the downs of teaching. She kept everybody alert by starting her speach with an activity of what happened during betweeen the years of 1992 and 1993. She then shared with us many pictures of her as a teacher cadet,students that inspired her and quotes from a book called Courage. Another part of the speach i found entertaining was listening to some of her journal entries from her first years of teaching at Donaldson.
Wednesday:
We started the movie The Ron Clark Story about a man from North Carolina who moved to New York to teach in a low budget school to unpriveleged kids who werent exactly the easiest to get along with, but with his different types of teaching methods he helped the children to cooperate and learn the material they needed to learn to pass required tests.
Thursday:
We continued The Ron Clark Story, but didnt get to catch the ending due to the class ending and we were left wanting to know what happens next!
Friday:
We had middle school observations where some students went to Mauldin Middle and other to Hillcrest. It was a very fun and interesting expirience and it was very nice to go back to schools where we once attended and see the classroom from a different point of view.
Courage is being a Teacher -Kelley Nally
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