Technology Reflection Redo

So far so good.....at least I hope so! Recently I started coming earlier to my mentor teacher's classroom so that I could get a better experience as a teacher. Formerly, I was in Mrs. Judy's first and second period classes and the beginning of the third period but changed it because it was so structured and there was nothing for me to do. Since I changed over to my mentor teacher's third and fourth period classes, there has been much more work to do. I have helped students with their reading comprehension questions as well as helping the students read better and understand the vocabulary. The third period class is reading a book about a high school car wreck that kills one of the members on the basketball team while the fourth grade class is reading "Go ask Alice', which I have not gotten to read with them so I do not know what it is about. Mrs. Judy is a great mentor teacher! She is very organized despite what she might say. The classroom itself is typical of most classrooms, white washed walls with the student's desks situated in the center of the room and the teacher's desk up front and another one to the side. There are five computers located in the back of the room as well as a projector and a screen up front should I need to give a presentation to the class. Book shelves line the walls which is useful in a Read 180 class. My classes have been going well. I am still boggled at the amount of material that teachers use every day and the amount of paper work that is involved with this profession. Even though I knew this prior to college, it still is amazing! For my research paper, I decided with the question " How do I integrate technology into a special education classroom without distracting the students from the content". I already have ten good sources and I think that it will be interesting to see what I can draw from them. I still have tons of questions about teaching but I know that they will get answered over time.

October 14, 2011 3:39 PM