Field Experience Reflection

Field Experience Questions

1.    How many hours did you complete?  5 hours 7 minutes

2.    How did you spend your time?

·       Observed regular education class lesson on scanning comprehension questions to aid in answering questions at the end of the story. Used lessons on short passages and short stories.

·       Collaborated with librarian and assistant librarian to create book shelves for special needs students that are unable to use  card catalog

·       Observed author Judith Schachner and visitor Skippyjon Jones at the public library read her story and answer questions from kids.

·       Participated in story hour and helped with Father’s Day kid craft for children age 3-12. Read stories about daddy’s to younger children.

3.    How did the experience help strengthen at least one Kentucky Teacher Standard?

I believe that I strengthen the most in Standard 10: Provides leadership within school/community/profession. I was able to visit another classroom and pick up and valuable lesson to use in my classroom with reading strategies. This will benefit my students tremendously. I also worked with my librarian and librarian assistant for the first time even at my school. I always take my classes in the library every two weeks and utilize the library but this time I was able to collaborate with them on a project to help kids. Mrs. Berry shared many interesting ideas she had for teaching in the classroom and also talked with me about our school one-book policy and the new book she was choosing for the upcoming school year. I’ve used this information to get a head start on a unit this summer that will go with the book. Observing at the public library in young children’s story time was a great learning experience and a neat one too. My own children also gained from this opportunity as we are never able to attend during the school year. I used the field experience hours to learn with-in my school, help out my students I teach, and help out in at my own public library.

4.    Talk a little about one thing you learned because of this field experience.

In collaborating with my school librarian for the first time I learned that she was able to teach a lot of reading strategies. She shared that she was going to select a book this summer to implement in our school for the upcoming year. It’s a one-book program where at certain times during the day no matter what class you are in everyone in the entire school will be reading the same chapter of the book at the same time. She has created lesson to help all teacher across content areas to help students really get more out of the book besides just reading it. I didn’t know that librarians even understood what classrooms were like, let alone knew how to create lesson plans to teach in class. I was very thrilled to have time to talk and collaborate with my librarian and the librarian assistant.