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Field Experience Reflection Paper Education 111^ 11-25-

Field Experience Reflection Paper

Field Experience Reflection Paper Education 111^ 11-25- I thoroughly enjoyed the observations at all of the different schools. The special education observation was especially exciting because I want to go into special education. The special education observation was at Manchester Junior High School for my group. I originally thought I wanted to teach at the elementary level, but observing Mrs. Cassel made me not so sure about that. I don’t know if it was the way she taught or the relationship she had with her students but something about it made me be unsure about which age level I eventually want to teach. I think I am still leaning more towards the elementary level because I tend to be more myself around younger children. Mrs. Cassel was so passionate about what she does and about her students. One could tell when talking to her just how passionate she was and how much effort and time she puts into her career. My hope is that people will be able to tell how I feel about teaching from talking to me and watching me teach my students. I believe that every child deserves a chance no matter how much extra effort needs to be put in to help them to understand. While talking to Mrs. Cassel, she told us that being a special education teacher requires attitude. You have to have the right mentality, and know that some children are not going to respect you at first. Not all families are what some would call “functional” not all families are the “perfect family.” Not all children are raised to respect their elders or those that are in charge. In their eyes they don’t respect their parents so they also don’t have to respect their teachers. Special Education teachers need to have attitude to know what to say to them to make them realize that the teacher is the one in charge and that being talked to in that manner will not be acceptable. That is one area that I believe I need to work on. I tend to be more of a keep to myself kind of person. If something

Field Experience Reflection Paper Education 11111-25- group as a whole was in charge of decided what to do with the money and how to manage their stocks. The purpose I guess was to help them in the future when they were actually allowed to have their own stocks. My third observation was with Mr. Eichenauer at Manchester Elementary in the fourth grade classroom. Mr. Eichenauer was very spur of the moment. He started out teaching math and then he would switch into a different subject as students would ask questions and then would transition back into math again. He was very laid back about it yet very passionate about what he does. I hope to be the same way when I become a teacher and have my own classroom. His classroom was very inviting; he had pictures of his children and his wife and posters that had to do with math. I plan to have that in my future classroom as well. My fourth classroom observation was at Laketon Intermediate. I observed Mrs. Hanback in a higher-level reading class. Their classes are divided based on they abilities in certain subjects. There is a higher-level math class and so on and so forth. In this reading class they had to do book reports and then response journals and write how they responded to the book and what they felt about it. Their book reports had to be presented in front of the class. They were able to get used to speaking in front of a class early on in their education. I plan to have that in my classroom too, so that my future students won’t have anxiety in speaking in front of people.