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!