Education Read the instructions carefully and complete this assignment to the best of your ability.
Field Experience Activities
While completing your Field Experience hours, the following slides are activities you may do to enhance your learning. Please complete at least 5 activities- 1 per column. One activity will need to be selected by your cooperating teacher. Once you have completed the activity, save the document in your One Drive by clicking on “File” and “Save as”, named “First Name Last Name, Block I”. Then color the cells, using the paint bucket, of the activity you have completed. Once this is done, please reflect over your activity on the following slides in at least 5-8 complete sentences. You may not complete the same activities for one block that you did for a previous block.
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| P Professionalism | R Reading & Writing | I Interactions | D Diversity | E Engagement |
| Read over the school/district’s policies and procedures (eg. handbook, emergency procedures, acceptable use, first aid, etc.) | Observe and assist students using devices (eg. tablets, mobile devices, clickers, computers, etc.) | Interact one-on-one with a student | Observe the use of different instructional formats (eg. digital, print, verbal, manipulatives, etc.) | Assist with grading assignments or assessments |
| Send an introductory email to the mentor teacher or print off an introductory letter to give to him/her | Read with or to a student | Interact with a small group of students | Discuss with the mentor teacher modifications that he/she makes to assignments | Assist with planning or teaching a lesson with the mentor teacher |
| Discuss dress code with the mentor teacher and identified the district’s policy on dress code (if applicable) | Assist students with writing | Teach a lesson to a small group of students | Observe the use of different instructional strategies (eg. independent work, small group, whole class, peer/partners, etc.) | Observe students highly engaged in a lesson |
| Observe a mentor teacher using varying tone or body language that demonstrates support and empathy for all students | Read aloud to the whole class (eg. novel, storybook, textbook, article, description, background, etc.) | Lead the whole class in an activity | Observe exclusion or inclusion of a student during instruction | Assist with a lesson that utilized technology (eg. SmartBoard, Chromebooks, tablets, etc.) |
Field Experience I
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Example: from Block I
Activity R: “Read with or to a student”
Reflection: Today I read an excerpt from the class novel, The skin I’m in, with a student. The student and I took turns reading. I noticed that while I was reading, the student appears to be looking around the room and was not focused. However, when I would ask him questions about what I read, he got all the answers correct. I wonder if he has read this book or chapter before or if he is that good at paying attention while seeming distracted. As a future teacher, I look forward to reading to students; however, after reading today I realize that I need to work on the inflection in my voice and the manner in which I read so that students will hopefully find the way I read aloud interesting and entertaining.
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Field Experience Submission
Once you have finished completing the following, coloring the background of the cells for the 5 activities you chose and reflecting over the activities, please click on “File”, “Download” and “PDF” to save your document as PDF.
You will then submit your assignment in your Field Experiences Blackboard shell as a PDF.
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