Day Ocho

WOW! We got to observe at a local elementary school and I had a great time. Me as well as one other student were placed in a 3rd grade class. We ended up helping the teacher by teaching some students, we were standing in front of the class, leading small groups, and I even took them inside the smoke house and was in charge for a little while. I'm not saying it was easy but I did enjoy it. Some of my classmates were complaining that they had to teach and it felt like they didn't get any time to sit down. Well me and my partner for the day really enjoyed it. Our teacher that we were helping was really nice and handled students very well.

I love little kids and I had a great time. I got to teach some math, draw some spiders and chickens with some students, and bonded with a few of them that begged me to sit with them at lunch. Even with all this however, I still love the High School too much to changed my educational destination. I'm still going to my Clinical Placement twice a week and starting next week I will be there three times a week. I can't wait to teach!

Day Ciete

Today Dr. Mitcham came in and we had a great discussion! We did some team building exercises which I had done before and she related them to how a classroom works. My team kind of had the better structure because not only had I done it before, but I have worked at the Broyhill Adventure Course for several years now so I just tried to make a miniature model of their climbing structure.

We also talked about different laws and policies and how they all fit together. The main item of topic was the Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS). It was interesting to see how everything fit under this one big umbrella like RTI and how each Tier effected students and how we handle each situation.