Field Experience Essay

Through out my years of being in the education program at Kennesaw State University I have learned a vast amount of tips, skills, and knowledge on professional development. In our classes we learn about theorist, research based ideas, content, and strategies on how we need to be carrying ourselves during our field experiences and ideas to implement into our future classrooms. During our field experience we are able to apply the knowledge we have learned in our university classes to a real class. Through my professional readings and classes, I have learned and am still learning new information and how to teach the information to be an effective teacher. Once I go into my field experience, I can think back to my readings and practice it in the classroom. Learning more about the profession I am going

After being in multiple different schools, and in many different grade levels, I have learned so many new ideas on classroom management, lesson ideas, and even brain breaks that are helping me grow in my professionalism. In my math course at KSU I have learned about number talks, dot images, and teaching place value strategies, and now I am able to incorporate into my kindergarten classroom. Everyday we have a calendar time, if I would have had to teach this my first semester at KSU I more than likely would have been very short and brief, and went over the day of the week and the date. Now I have knowledge of how to incorporate other skills into calendar time such as, place value. We add a straw every day to keep track of our days at school. The students know once we get to ten straws, it become a group of ten. Through my math readings, I learned how important it is for the students to understand place value. Therefore, when we count our groups, I have the student’s say, one group of ten, two groups of ten, and so