Pre-Assessments and Getting to Know You Activities!
Yesterday we started another round of fieldwork! This round of fieldwork, much like last semester, will be carried out at Bishop Dunn Memorial School. I was very excited to meet the new set of students and to be working with the fifth-grade. When I first started at the Mount, I was convinced that I only wanted to work with the youngest students in the first or second grade, but after a few years of fieldwork, I am starting to think I might like the fifth-grade more. I think this will be a great semester! All of the students we so bright and eager to learn. To get to know these amazing social studies superstars, we played a board game with the students. The board game consisted of three types of questions, questions to get to know the student, questions for them to get to know us, and social studies superstar questions to give them the opportunity to show their knowledge. I was pleased to see how engaged all of our students were the whole time. Overall I think the first day of fieldwork went very well. One thing I would change would be to not say the word "guys." I never hear myself saying that word until I notice it once and then I hear myself doing it a lot. I find it hard to be friendly and personable without saying "guys," especially when working in a small group. I will be on my toes when we teach our lessons to make sure I am engaging while using more academic language. I feel really good about my group this semester. We seem to play well off of each other and have a lot of great ideas, maybe even too many ideas! Two weeks from yesterday will be my group's first day of teaching and I cannot wait to teach these fifth graders my favorite subject and my favorite topic in that subject, American History!
Yesterday we started another round of fieldwork! This round of fieldwork, much like last semester, will be carried out at Bishop Dunn Memorial School. I was very excited to meet the new set of students and to be working with the fifth-grade. When I first started at the Mount, I was convinced that I only wanted to work with the youngest students in the first or second grade, but after a few years of fieldwork, I am starting to think I might like the fifth-grade more. I think this will be a great semester! All of the students we so bright and eager to learn. To get to know these amazing social studies superstars, we played a board game with the students. The board game consisted of three types of questions, questions to get to know the student, questions for them to get to know us, and social studies superstar questions to give them the opportunity to show their knowledge. I was pleased to see how engaged all of our students were the whole time. Overall I think the first day of fieldwork went very well. One thing I would change would be to not say the word "guys." I never hear myself saying that word until I notice it once and then I hear myself doing it a lot. I find it hard to be friendly and personable without saying "guys," especially when working in a small group. I will be on my toes when we teach our lessons to make sure I am engaging while using more academic language. I feel really good about my group this semester. We seem to play well off of each other and have a lot of great ideas, maybe even too many ideas! Two weeks from yesterday will be my group's first day of teaching and I cannot wait to teach these fifth graders my favorite subject and my favorite topic in that subject, American History!
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