5 Weeks of Student Teaching

For the last five weeks I have been in a real classroom and I absolutely loved it. It went by so fast. I was in Geography classroom where I taught 2 slots of Geography20S and I sat in on a Geography40 and a GIS course. 

Technology was a large part of the classroom activities while in the school because the room that I was in had 18 computers. I was able to use a variety of resources other than textbooks because students could all go on the computer and use the internet to get up to date information rather than the out dated textbook information. 

Learning GIS was a large part of my student teaching experience. Although there were quite a few small bugs that came along with using the program, I was constantly blown away by the things students could accomplish with the program. 

The school I was at had a closed circuit tv system throughout the school, which they used to play video clips or picture slide shows of students working, or school events. I only found out about all of the things they could put on the screens in my last couple weeks but I often walked down the hall and saw a pack of students staring up at the screens which were showing students in their Halloween costumes.

Overall I had a great 5 weeks and look forward to my second placement. New school, new ct, new students!! It will be great!!

This was an extra blog post for the week all about my student teaching placement. I will have one more specifically for ICT class later in the week. :)