Field Experience

Wow! I had a great time doing my field experience. I went on the 13 of this month as well as the 20. I also plan to go back on the 27 as well. I went to Acme Delco middle school and the school was really rather run down and had a sad atmosphere because of the TLC that it needed. I feel that hopefully one day soon that the school will get some improvement. The kids were really friendly as well as had great manners when it came to visitors in the room. I was very impressed. The staff was very well rounded and helped me quite a bit. The teacher that I worker with was telling me very positive things about education and that he thought I would make a great math teacher as well as enjoy teaching. He said with my personality and energy, the kids would love me and have a good time in my class. I really hope that what he said is true because that would be awesome to have a positive experience in teaching. I do not want to exit the school system unless I have to.

The other school that I worked with was Acme Delco Elementary School. I went to this school last. I think that I was expecting the same run down, negative energy when I got there, so I prepared myself. When I got there I was totally surprised. It was a very small school just like the middle school, but beautiful when I went inside. I worked in an kindergarten class and it was very nice. I loved seeing children so in tune with learning. They wanted to learn and enjoyed it as well. I also will admit that I loved centers time. I got to color, play airplanes, tigers, house and blocks. Not only was it fun I got to experience children with special needs. There were 9 kids in that room with special needs. One had to walk with crutches and had braces on his legs and another had autism. I played airplanes with him. He did not have anything to say to me but he did make airplane noises. After leaving this school, it made me want to be a teacher this much more because I can not wait to shape students into great beings in our society. I feel that as a teacher we are really important to them because they see us for the majority of their day and we are a really big role model in their eyes. The teacher of this class had two helpers because of the many different special needs. Ms. Williams knew how to work with all of them so well and it made me inspire more to be like her and be so well rounded as a teacher.