Reflection 6

I enjoyed my field experience and I’m thankful for all that I got to observe and demonstrate. However, I still feel like there is so much more to learn. I wish TCAP had not been the classroom’s main focus. That really changed things up-in a crazy kind of way. I so enjoyed all the off the wall lessons that Ashley did do while I was there, but wish I could have seen more of the everyday classroom environment. Although, I still feel like I got an idea of what type of stress level the TCAP put on the teachers and students. I am not one hundred percent confident in my abilities to teach reading to beginning readers.  But, the thought of teaching writing, at any level, does not bother me.

Reflection 5

I’m enjoying my field experience. I have become so attached to Ashley’s first graders. She is a great teacher and a great person.  I think I have gained much more from my first grade field experience than I did in last semester’s fifth grade practicum.  Even though this semester’s field experience is mostly focusing on TCAP, I still have a nice perspective of the first grade classroom and its content.  Out of the three read-aloud lessons and the creative writing lesson, I most enjoyed my creative writing lesson.  Again, I think I have gained the most knowledge about the educational field during this semester and this semester’s practicum.   Although at this point of this semester, I feel like I am running wide open. The end is near, and I can’t believe it, we will be seniors. YEH!!!