Week 2: Student Behavior

This week in the class I am interning at, I had to watch the behavior of a student and identify their learning preferences. In my class there is a little girl who is very hands on and needs one on one attention to keep her focused. She gets very distracted and always gets up and starts walking around the classroom. My teacher has to constantly tell her to keep working on her work. In order for her to be some what focused my teacher had to move her to a table that is isolated from everyone else by her desk.When it comes to drawing and doing art things she tends to typically stay in her seat in work on her work. She loves making things and always makes me things and gives them to me as presents. She is very sweet, but just needs extra attention to keep her focused and work on the work where she has to by literal.

Week One: Classroom Description

This year I am interning in Mrs. Webster's 2nd grade classroom at Walker Creek Elementary. This Tuesday was my first day and when I got into her classroom I loved it because it is an outdoors theme! She has a little tent in the back corner for them to read in, which is really cute and a fun idea. When i arrived the kids were still at lunch and as soon as they got back Mrs. Webster had me read to them a chapter from the book. The kids loved when i read to them, which gave me a lot more confidence! The students are very sweet and seem to really like me. They are a little rowdy and very outgoing, but it is very understandable for 2nd graders; after all they are just coming back from lunch when i get there. The most exciting thing that had happened to me the first day i got there was when all the kids were sad when i had to leave and were asking if I was going to stay forever. I really liked it when they did this because it ment that they liked me and that it went very well for my first day! I'm very excited to go back next week and cannot wait to see what else I will be doing in the classroom!

Image Scrimmage

In the image scrimmage, I made a 230 out of 250 and the area that needed the most improvement is my demonstration on how to read a book. The part of that that needed improvement is getting the kids involved  and making eye contact with the group. In order to improve this I need to get out of my comfort zone and be more animated and keep the interested in what I am reading to them. If I had a do-over, I would make better eye contact and make sure i asked questions during the middle of my reading and when I introduced the book.