Field Experience 298/348/398: December 2014

Learning to teach is an intricate, painstaking, time consuming task. There are no easy shortcuts. Like all acts of performance, one learns to teach by teaching. To facilitate this process you will be assigned to an educational situation where you will have adequate opportunity to teach under the guidance of a master teacher. This person was selected because of his or her professional competence and a desire to work with prospective teachers.

Field experiences should be thought of as a time to study teaching as well as practice teaching. It is a time to put untried ideas to the test in a variety of real situations and to evaluate the results. The factors of: what to teach, how to teach it, and why teach it, are equally important and inseparable in the teaching process. You should reflect on these continually as you carry out your teaching assignments. The teacher education program of study is designed to offer a continuously expanding experience with these factors under the guidance of an experienced teacher. Taking full opportunity of these experiences will guide you as you journey to becoming a “competent, caring teacher” who will make a difference in the lives of children.

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Hello, December!

We'll begin class today with each one sharing something from our field placement with the group. We'll also discuss some wrap-up details for the semester, as we are down to two weeks now.

A couple end of the semester forms that need to be completed:

Student Diversity Profile (I have a few of these.)
Field Experience Log w/Contextual Factors at bottom filled out
Complete Candidate Field Experience Evaluation

Within the next two weeks, your Cooperating Teacher will complete and return a Field Experience Evaluation for you. I will email these to them this week.

Next week, we will upload some of these documents to you TaskStream portfolios. Make sure you have your username and password with you for class next week.