Field Experience Questions

1. How many hours did you complete?

·   5 hours

2. In a short paragraph or bulleted list, how did you spend your time?

·   Observing lessons

·   Teaching a lesson

·   Helping students

·   Helping a small reading group

3. How did the experience help you to strengthen at least one Kentucky Teacher Standard? (be sure to name the standard)

·   The experience helped me strengthen Standard 7: The teacher reflects on and evaluates teaching and learning.  I am used to reflecting on lessons to see how they go or what I would do differently, but by using the KTIP format I was able to really reflect in-depth on what I taught.  It required me to go back and see how many students were able to meet, go above, or fell below criteria.  I was able to give the teacher exactly which students did not master the content based on my teach.

4. Talk a little about one thing you learned because of this field experience.

·         I learned that there are many different ways to teach something. I noticed the teacher I was with taught time in a different way than I ever have.  She used a number line and was able to show the students how to do elapsed time. I have never seen that before and I was amazed how she did it. I have already showed my team and we are planning on using the strategy next year with our students.