1. How many hours
did you complete?
I completed five hours of field experience.
2. In a short paragraph or bulleted list, how did you spend your time?
I spent time
analyzing reading comprehension data, collaborating with other
teachers and the two media specialist in my school to develop ideas
and find great books. I also spent a great deal of time with Mrs.
Emily Hunt, a fellow third grade teacher who is working towards her
Master’s as a Media Specialist. This collaboration allowed me to
get a better understanding of what our school library and local
library had to offer.
3. How did the experience help you to strengthen at least one Kentucky Teacher Standard?
The objective that
I feel I have gained the most knowledge in is Objective 1
choosing age appropriate literature. This has allowed me to become
more adept at planning instruction, therefore contributing to
Standard 2: The teacher designs and plans instruction. Being able to
talk to other teachers and mediaa specialists has helped me in my
classroom by allowing me to have some experience with several
different genres and titles and authors within those genres. Doing
this has allowed me to decide what books I could use to share with my
students, books to develop different reading and comprehension
strategies and books I can suggest to them. I have many readers who
are either above or below grade level and through this course I was
able to find some great reads for my readers who may not find what
they are looking for in my classroom library. By having classmates
and myself add to the Wiki I was able to find a lot of great
age-appropriate resources to teach different subject areas.
4. Talk a little about one thing you learned because of this field experience.
One thing I learned
is never be scared to ask your school librarian (s) for help! They
know the library forward and backward and have a vast knowledge base
of what is age-appropriate, grade-appropriate and what will hold the
interest of your kiddos. They are there to help both the teachers and
the kids and they hold a huge key to student success and learning!