I started my field experience this week. My partner, Whitney, and I are assigned to a 3-5 grade class in Spanish Fork. I love being in the classroom and I love the students. But the teacher is very hard to get along with. I don't really like how he deals with the students and he doesn't give us much direction either.
During this week we have observed him teaching math. We have also had the chance to help the students create puppets as a professional puppeteer teaches them. They have 4 professional artists at the school this week and each students is assigned one to go to. For the first two weeks of field we are just observing and then during the last week we are going to be teaching the lessons that we have been preparing. SCARY!
I love the students. They all have their own personalities. One little boy is so shy and quiet. He comes up to me all the time and asks me for a pencil because he doesn't dare ask the teacher. Another girl asked me if I was coming back the next day. When I told her yes, she replied, "Good, because you're nice."
Although I have been so frustrated after this week because the teacher had such a temper and has been so hard to deal with because he gets into arguments with the other teachers and is unkind to the students, he told us to go observe other classes today (ya, kinda weird, I guess he didn't want us in his class anymore) but watching the other teachers I was reminded why I want to be a teacher again! It was so much fun to be in their classes.
Well sorry about my rantings, but that's what has been going on.
~Karli
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Karli, I think you are just the perfect person to be a teacher, you totally have the right personality and the right temperment. It sounds like somebody should have told that teacher a long time ago that he didn't quite fit the bill. Hopefully the students will make it through his class without too many scars. Good thing they have you atleast for a little while to help them through.
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