I was very excited to finally get to this big part of the course. Visiting an actual school to get some actual field experience is a way to apply what we have already learned to this point in all of the education courses that I have taken up to this point. Taking into account the way specific school's have different policies and philosophies is a good way to observe what is going on in the classroom in board meetings. This first step into the classroom is an exciting one that offered alot of answers to questions. I found the round robin session to be extremely informative with the union and also the PTO. I was unaware as to how much it took to keep the school system afloat. This also brought up some more questions that i hope to have answered in the classroom visits like; How much does a teacher stick to the lesson plan? What is the hardest part about controling students? Where do i want to teach? How much empahasis is put on test scores?
I dont know, just throwing some things out there into my blogging world. I hope these questions and how I will be as a teacher with my pedagogy come around and pop into my brain while i am visiting the schools. Rock on, Luke
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Hey LUKE!
I totally agree with you about the round robin activity that we did at our Orientation to the school. It was not only informative, it was sort of personal at the same time because we got to talk individually to actual teachers, student-teachers, and other types of facilitators of the school. It was pretty awesome that they gave us the opportunity to ask them any kind of questions we ad...
I agree Luke, this whole "teaching to the test" concept is so upsetting. Students hate classes that are entirely geared toward a test. I think we can all recall the horrors of preparing for the GEPA and the SATs.
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