My Favorite Internet Teaching Resource(s)

My favorite teaching resource is PBS Kids. 

PBS Kids is a real good source to go to if you're looking for activities for your classroom, media for the subject you are teaching, and lesson plans for the future. The thing that separates PBS Kids from all the other teaching resources is their search bar! In the search bar you can choose what grade you want, the subject AND the media type.


In my own personal experience I recall using PBS Kids to help me find ideas to come up with a lesson plan and have a "cute" little activity on the side. Currently I am an intern at Grace E. Hardeman and I help out with a 4th grade class. When I arrive the students are learning math and my objective was to find a way to help teach 3 digit long division. I went to PBS Kids and followed these simple steps.

1. Go to the website - www.pbs.org/teachers
2. Select your kids grade level
3. Select your current subject
4. Choose the media type you'd like
5. Browse all the different ideas and select one or more that you would like!

PBS Kids is simply as pie! They make life easy for you, all you have to do is get crackin'!

Field Trips are Fun and Educational

My favorite field trip was when I was younger. I was about 8 years old and I was in a daycare place and we went to the movies. I just liked it a lot because I never been to the movies with a large group before. I believe we saw Scooby-Doo! If I were to take my own class on a field trip, we would go to Six Flags. We would go to Six Flags so they can ride the rides and determine the amount of velocity that is being use among other things. They would have to find the G-Force. They can also ride the Superman and calculate how much force is used to take up all the people and bring them back down.

What would you do?

I believe being a new kid to a big school is a very scary situation coming from experience. Mark made friends on Facebook by being funny which is nice.  Facebook is a new way to make tons of friends and meet people from across the world. Facebook is rapidly growing!
                                                 

When Mark saw the picture of the new girl from a post that a kid made I believe he should have told the principle. He could have gone with this in many ways, but the smartest one would be for him to go to the principal and tell him the situation about the photo. He could have also just left it alone and no be apart of it but if Mark has good morals then he should get someone in a higher demand to take care of the situation. Also the creator of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has made it to where if a photo may be offensive he can click a button and report it as bullying or in another topic.

In reference: Ethical Dilemma 

My Year as an Intern

This year as an intern has been the utter most best experience in my life. I have had the chance to experience what it's like to be a teacher and help teach the students. Some of the ups in being an intern is having that feeling after you just helped a student understand how to do a problem and them getting it and learning. Some of the downs in being an intern personally is very hard to come up with because there really isn't anything bad about being an intern but coming up with lesson plans can be tricky at times but being an intern is amazing.

The author of the poem Roller Coaster refers to nausea, personally I would refer to it as adrenaline. Just because I am pumped every day that I know I'm going to my field site and I get to teach the kids something new and they are expanding their brains every day its amazing! My elation this year is meeting my mentor Crys Aigner she has to be one of the most incredible teachers ever, she has so much energy to her and is ready to start the day, she's just very energetic and it gets all her students pumped for the day and ready to go.

I am forever committed in becoming a teacher because it is just such a great job and being able to motivate children and make them strive for the best that they can be is beyond this world. I have learned many things from my mentor such as being positive, having energy, motivating the students, keeping the kids interactive she literally does it all and I am very honored that I get to call her my mentor. I believe her being my mentor has been a great advantage to me because I took all those characteristics that she has and have tried to do the same thing. 

Personally there isn't anything that I would have changed about this year everything just fell into place like it was destine. It's been a great year and I don't regret anything at all, I can't wait for next year when I get to do it all again.

High School Teacher Creates New Educational App

The eNotebook app can be useful for students by them having basically the notes for that day from the teacher and being able to highlight important information or to rewrite some sentences in their own words.

•     For elementary I believe the eNotebook can be useful for when they are reading a book they can highlight things. 
• In middle school the notes that are given that day they students can rewrite it in their own words. 
• In high school the kids can go through them and highlight them rewrite things in their own words.

I have thought about making an app not necessarily for school or anything but it wasn't something that I really looked into. If I made an app for the classroom I probably would make something that is a video of each day in a certain classroom and shows the teacher just teaching the lesson. It would be helpful for kids who have missed they could just watch the video and learn everything that had happened on that. 

The Ron Clark Story.

I believe that these three rules are the best out of all the 55 rules he came up with.

• Rule number  8, students should never smack their lips, roll their eyes, or show disrespect with gestures. 
• Rule number 21, child must follow protocol, must be organized and efficient and on task in the classroom. 
• Rule 46, when your child goes to the movie theater they should not talk during the film.

   I like those rules because it shows character and what type of person you are. How you may have been raised it shows your personality and what not. It gives you manners and its a very important to have manners as a person you must respect people. When you meet someone you should show them respect they can only lose it as time goes on.

My own rules for Ron Clark would probably have been..

• No talking back, think before you speak for you can hurt someones feeling.
• No loud music unless you are given permission even then keep it to a level to where only you can hear it.

The Advantages of Technology in the Classroom.

The 5 ways technology can be useful in a classroom is by:

                                                                                   

• Accessing Information
• Editing of Written Works                                                
• Providing Supplementary Information
• Communicating
• Motivating Students

I believe by having technology in my classroom is most helpful because I can access information very easily by just searching it on the net. Communicating is also another way technology has helped. It helped by talking to some of my peers and figuring out some of the work we may have to do. 

Technology can also be helpful by students being able to save their work on their phone/computer or whatever they may have. No longer have to worry about my dog ate my homework or I lost it. Students can simply save their work on whatever technology device they may have. 

Inspired By: The Advantages of Technology in the Classroom.  

Bullying in School

• A bully is someone who is rude to someone in an emotional and psychical way. 
• Birdville Independent School District hardly has any bullying going on and when it does it is taken care of right away. 
• I personally have not been a victim of bullying which proves that BISD hardly has bullying, for I was in the BISD for most of my life. 
• When someone bullies another kid, I believe you should contact both parents and discuss what is going on, and get to the bottom of it. 
• In my own classroom I will have no tolerance for bullying, some kids commit suicide because they can't take someone who bullies them. I will like for everyone to treat people the way they would want to be treated. 

                                            

            

My Involvement in TAFE!

My participation in TAFE this year was going to the Peer to Peer Education Training. I had the honor in being with the group that involved kids getting into shape! I was pleased that I got put into this group, because I am all for kids whipping into shape and staying healthy. Every kid should play at least 60 minutes a day. If I could have done anything different last year I would have gone to TAFE region and have seen what it was like there. I would have liked to be more involved in TAFE & FCCLA activities. The most rewarding experience has been getting to meet new people and making connections and learning new things! Next year I plan on participating in more activities and just being more involved than I was this year.

                   

Who is Stacey Bess?

Stacy Bess became a teacher in her adult hood. She first taught kids in a small shed behind the community homeless center.  The name of her book is Nobody Don't Love Nobody, she also has a movie that is based off of the book. It is called "Beyond the Blackboard." As a young adult reading her story, I do not know if I could or couldn't handle what she went through with the children she taught. I would like to think I can take on something like that, but I am sure that requires a lot of patience and hope.

Inspired By: Stacy Bess

Reflections of My Fall Semester Internship

Last semester I did quite a good job with every task that was assigned to us interns. I think with all the assignments that were assigned to me I did a good job. Everything I had to do, I gave my absolute best effort on it. I do believe I procrastinated a lot on the when to do the assignments. I always got them done, it just took some time to get it done. I really enjoyed visiting my field site, and to see all the kids faces. I enjoyed seeing my mentor teach a lesson and just observing his techniques with the children and how he gets through to them. The changes I would like to make with myself is just be more authoritative and take more action in my field site do more things, be more hands on. I want to take more initiative in the things I do, and just have more control.

Reflections of a Fourth Grade Intern!

This year being a fourth grade intern has been such a spectacular experience.  I have gained a lot of information on how it is being a teacher and what they have to do.  I remember one day walking into my fourth grade classroom, my field site teacher; Mr. Hopkins had a lesson planned that involved students cutting paper into certain arrays and then go near the lockers and put them under the correct label the array may fit under. After they got through with that, they had a plastic bag filled with magnets and they were instructed to go around the classroom and find things that are attracted to the magnet. The lesson plan that day was not only fun and active; Mr. Hopkins used all the different methods some students learn best from. Such as if some of the students were kinesthetic, they got to move around the room, or some of the students being visual or auditory learners. He used all of those teaching styles some of the students might have. When Mr. Hopkins teaches a lesson, he gets the students engaged by keeping the students entertained. He has a competition going on between his classroom and another class. Whoever wins the competition get some sort of prize, so it makes the students dedicated and motivated to win and at the same time they are learning. Learning all of this in one semester just makes me anxious on what's to come next semester. We're looking at a great year and I can't wait to go back!

Here are some pictures of some of my students and I at my field site when I taught my first lesson!

                              

 Go Roadrunners!

The Ideal Classroom

I believe when I become a teacher my classroom will look like the ordinary classroom as of today. The only difference would be that the desk I have will be cherry wood but they will also be big enough to have space to work and hold a laptop that may be provided by the school. The chairs will be comfortable nice and relaxed like in Lewisville ISD except mine will be able to roll around in. My students will need a hard surface to write on to do their math problems.

Inspired By: Lewisville ISD trades row of desks for sofas- Your Houston News.