I think I am the only student in the eduction program to not have a school to teach at next semester. This is alarming but this is also a great time to lean on Jesus for patience and faith. I have to caste all my worries on Him. He knows the plans he has for me and I just have to have faith that they will be carried out.
I pray that I will be able to be placed before the start of school on January. I think it would be weird if I showed up after all of the kids went back to school. This is a great time for me to start observing in some schools that I might be interested in teaching in. I have found it easier to start their rather than waiting around for someone else to place me.
I already found a teacher and school that was willing to be my help but unfortunetly it was too far away from the University for anyone to observe me. If I ask myself it seems to aliviate some of the hoops.
anyways I just relying on God and the fact that I'm here at this school for a reason. I know He has something planned for me, I just don't know what it is yet:)
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
reflection #11
Today I observed my first male teacher classroom. I was excited to observe a male teachers classroom because i have only had experience with females. one thing i found interesting about him was that he did not dress professionally, his uniform consisted of vans, blue jeans, and a stripped polo. he was well kept just not professional. when i think of teaching i think of professional attire. i want to dress up to show respect to my students, and to show my principal that i'm serious about my job. i'm not saying these are not things that this teacher doesn't have, he just must show them in a different way. when i stepped into the classroom i found him about 50lbs lighter and 20 years younger than i imagined. for some reason when i think of male social studies teachers i only have my own experience to work off of. my experiences have been around the age of 50 and about 250-300 lbs. the point to me telling all of this is that he probably has some things to worry about; from his looks i could tell that some girls have crushes on him. it probably makes it even worse that he dresses like the boys do in high school. this is something that we as teachers need to be aware of; male and female alike. as a teacher dressing professionally helps to close that gap between friend and teacher. i'm sure that if i dressed more like the students i could have crushes and the students might think i was there friend over their teacher. but however this was just an observation
word, excel, and powerpoint
word: bullets, columns, different fonts, colors, and sizes, spacing, preview, print 8X11's and envelops, highlight, thesaurus, endnotes, headers and footers, spell check, watermark, incerting tables, pictures, and word art, inserting cover pages, blank page, and page break.
project: they could create a newspaper article including one picture (either from clip art or word art), one graph, and two different fonts.
excel: (i wish i was more experienced with excel) insert text, add two or more colums, change cell styles, copy and paste, delete cells, add borders to cells, print, font, size, and add tabs.
project: i could have the students make a time line using two different colors using a table chart
powerpoint: (i don't use powerpoint on a regular basis) add a slide, replicate a slide, change the format of a slide, add word art, add a text box, insert a picture, play a movie, put a theme to the slide, add animation, run a slide show, change presentation views, and print.
project: I could have my students prepare a slide show with five different animations, one movie or sound clip, and three different formated slides.
project: they could create a newspaper article including one picture (either from clip art or word art), one graph, and two different fonts.
excel: (i wish i was more experienced with excel) insert text, add two or more colums, change cell styles, copy and paste, delete cells, add borders to cells, print, font, size, and add tabs.
project: i could have the students make a time line using two different colors using a table chart
powerpoint: (i don't use powerpoint on a regular basis) add a slide, replicate a slide, change the format of a slide, add word art, add a text box, insert a picture, play a movie, put a theme to the slide, add animation, run a slide show, change presentation views, and print.
project: I could have my students prepare a slide show with five different animations, one movie or sound clip, and three different formated slides.
Friday, November 20, 2009
teachers panel
Mrs. Sorenson emailed me a copy of the conference that the technology class had on Tue. The ladies were very helpful with setting up a class for a substitute and setting up a class for learning. Even though they did not find use for lesson plans after they recieved jobs, the lesson plans were helpful to them as they plan what they will be teaching and how they will go about teaching. They have been successful with setting up an outline in their minds about what they are going to teach and how. If it hadn't been for the lesson plans they had to do at Northwest they would be spending more time writting them out now.
One of the ladies mentioned what she preferes as a substitute. It was nice to hear from her because when you can't show up to class it's ladies like her who are running your room. She said she feels it is helpful for teachers to write down alittle about their students performance and helpfulness. this helps the sub know who she can call on for help and who to keep an eye on.
Talking the heather about the panel also helped give me a good idea of what was discusses. They gave some good feedback to us "soon to be teachers". I was surprised that there was not much talk about technology in the classroom.
the main theme i got out of the panel discussion was to be confident in interviews. the other theme was networking, to get out there and get to know teachers and principals. knowing people helps your name to go around in a good way
One of the ladies mentioned what she preferes as a substitute. It was nice to hear from her because when you can't show up to class it's ladies like her who are running your room. She said she feels it is helpful for teachers to write down alittle about their students performance and helpfulness. this helps the sub know who she can call on for help and who to keep an eye on.
Talking the heather about the panel also helped give me a good idea of what was discusses. They gave some good feedback to us "soon to be teachers". I was surprised that there was not much talk about technology in the classroom.
the main theme i got out of the panel discussion was to be confident in interviews. the other theme was networking, to get out there and get to know teachers and principals. knowing people helps your name to go around in a good way
Thursday, November 19, 2009
blogs for educators
The savvy tech educator blog was informative on areas of technology that could be used in the classroom. The blog mentions a new website to get informative videos, it's called schooltube.com it has some of the same things as teacher tube and downloads alot faster. schooltube could be useful to me as a teacher because it's another site that has similiar info as teachertube with out the lag time, marketing, and poorely made videos.
Free technology for teachers was the other blog i took a look at. the blog offered a variety of different free technologies.
typepad micro was one that gets your students bloging
Free technology for teachers was the other blog i took a look at. the blog offered a variety of different free technologies.
typepad micro was one that gets your students bloging
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
k-12 online conferences
Prove It “Student Creation of Digital Documentaries in History Classrooms: Research Findings”
http://dotsub.com/view/c8de26a3-effe-4577-a8b6-930e8bf09a11
I found this conference to be very helpful because it specifically focused on History. It introduced me to a new technology called primary access. The conferece dealt specifically with this new software. It was really interesting because the conference showed samples from students using the Primary access software and powerpoint. the students who used Primary access were able to recieve constant feedback from their teachers because every time they worked on their project the teacher was able to see it on her end of the line. the students who used powerpoint were not able to recieve that same type of feedback they also did not learn as much as the students who used primary access. Primary Access helps the students remember content knowledge.
Kicking it up a Notch Games in Education
http://dotsub.com/view/937f0dcc-da25-477a-b00b-d6ac691baf90
I choose to watch the games in education becasue as a history teacher i want to learn how to make history come alive to my students. this conferece talked specifically about how games can have educational value. it briefly covered the topic of having your students design there own games. it also covered what games have educational value and which ones don't. the lady who did the conference was very knowledgable in these areas because her career is making video games both for schools and for the public. some video games that the schools have access to are not educational. they don't help the students to think critically, they are however assessment based games that the student can answer after studying the material. the games that the host was addressing are games that can be played to learn new ideas, not simply for assessment after the material is learned. the host gave out some great websites for teachers to be apart of when trying to find something applicable and thought provoking to bring into a classroom.
http://dotsub.com/view/c8de26a3-effe-4577-a8b6-930e8bf09a11
I found this conference to be very helpful because it specifically focused on History. It introduced me to a new technology called primary access. The conferece dealt specifically with this new software. It was really interesting because the conference showed samples from students using the Primary access software and powerpoint. the students who used Primary access were able to recieve constant feedback from their teachers because every time they worked on their project the teacher was able to see it on her end of the line. the students who used powerpoint were not able to recieve that same type of feedback they also did not learn as much as the students who used primary access. Primary Access helps the students remember content knowledge.
Kicking it up a Notch Games in Education
http://dotsub.com/view/937f0dcc-da25-477a-b00b-d6ac691baf90
I choose to watch the games in education becasue as a history teacher i want to learn how to make history come alive to my students. this conferece talked specifically about how games can have educational value. it briefly covered the topic of having your students design there own games. it also covered what games have educational value and which ones don't. the lady who did the conference was very knowledgable in these areas because her career is making video games both for schools and for the public. some video games that the schools have access to are not educational. they don't help the students to think critically, they are however assessment based games that the student can answer after studying the material. the games that the host was addressing are games that can be played to learn new ideas, not simply for assessment after the material is learned. the host gave out some great websites for teachers to be apart of when trying to find something applicable and thought provoking to bring into a classroom.
Friday, November 13, 2009
reflection #10
yesterday I went and observe a social studies classroom at Lake Washington High School. I''m not sure wether I felt comfortable or the students were nice but I seemed to like my visit there. At the end of the class period the teacher introduced me (which doesn't happen very often) and asked me if I had any questions for the students. So, I asked them if they had any advise for me. To my surprise about five kids raised their hands and they all had some really good feed back. Then I asked them about their active board that they have in their classroom. I asked them if they ever get a chance to go up to the board and do activities on it and play interactive games. I was surprised that they said no. I also asked them if that is something that they would like to be able to do, they all said yes.
After class the teacher and I spoke about the Active Board comments and she told me that she didn't realize the kids were interested in being apart of the board. She mentioned how she now needs to find some ways to get the students up to the board and work with it more.
I had a great time because I was able to put input into how a classroom was being taught. I hope it was benificial to all parties.
After class the teacher and I spoke about the Active Board comments and she told me that she didn't realize the kids were interested in being apart of the board. She mentioned how she now needs to find some ways to get the students up to the board and work with it more.
I had a great time because I was able to put input into how a classroom was being taught. I hope it was benificial to all parties.
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