Week 15- Came to the Edge and I flew

This is my LAST blog post for this semester, I want to take some time to reflect upon my experiences so far this semester.  It was a long journey of trials and tribulations to get to this point in the semester.  At one point I didnt know if i was going to be able to pull through and get everything done by week 15.  However, here I am, completely FINISHED with one more thing to do.  Submit my final online portfolio!  I have never met more inspiring and motivated individuals who have a similar passion like myself.  It was a honor to learn and grow next to all of these individuals I met this year in block I.  I knew when times got tough I had all of my classmates to lean on and they knew they could do the same.  This past Monday was my last observation in my host classroom and looking back on the overall experience, it was was one the most valuable, inspiring and best experience I've had so far at The State University in New York at Cortland. I could express to you how close I got with each one of my students and the amount of academic and social development I was able to witness in 8 weeks was amazing and can say I'm proud to have been apart of it! At first when I was given my placement, I was a little shocked I was placed with first graders! I ideally wanted 3-4th grade but I have to admit observing in a first grade classroom was quite an amazing experience! I learned that 1st grade deals more with the learning of the social curriculum rather than the academic curriculum.  Now that the observations are over, I feel like I feel in love with the first grade curriculum, however, I still feel like I would be more successful as a teacher in the the second grade. 


This final week I have polished my skills using e- Tasksteam after spending countless hours updating and incorporating all of the artifacts that I felt meet the ACEI standards! I strongly feel that everything in that portfolio reflects who I am and my ideologies and methodologies of how I will teach to meet the needs of all students.

I was challenged to come to the edge this semester and now I can proudly say that I FLEW! Thank you for keeping up with my blog I hope you enjoyed reading about my experiences as much I enjoyed living them! 

Week 14

Week 14:

Field Observation: For these weeks field observations, I will focus on some of the content students learned.  In math this week, students learned the exchange system of singles to rods, to flats and cubes.  Students were given manipulatives to work with while solving two and three digit mathematics problems.  During the writing workshop, they worked on adding details into their stories and learned how to make revisions and corrections on previous assignments. Throughout the day students were a little wired and there were a good amount of behavioral problems during the day. 

Technology: This week we have been working on creating a Voice thread that can used as a teaching tool in the classroom. A voice thread will promote the learning of students who are visual and auditory learners.