Blog Entry #8

• What is the most important thing you have learned during fieldwork observation? Why?

           It's hard to say what is most important! Because I learned so many things and got so many ideas for my future classroom. You can read and talk about what classroom life is like, but until you actually go into a classroom and experience it, you will never be prepared for when you have your own. It was good for me to just experience how a classroom is ran. So i guess the most important thing I learned was classroom management. I've always been pretty worried about keeping the attention of my students and making the classroom a routine place where learning is fun but challenging. I got to see a couple different teacher in action and learn from how they run their classrooms. 

           Something else that I've learned is what to say and what not to say to students. In my time in the classroom, there have been a few times where students ask questions about situations that are questionable. I wasn't quite sure how to address those questions, but after seeing how the teacher responds, I got a pretty good idea of what to say. There are roundabout ways to answer questions so the students feel like they have an answer to questions. Basically I learned how to redirect questions and go off on a tangent. It was great. 

           It was so good being in a classroom and getting to help out wherever help was needed. I learned that for most of the time, you have a general lesson plan but just kind of have to go with the flow, which is a quality of a good teacher. It made me so excited to get my schooling done and get out there in the action!!