Field Experience Essay

My field experience was at Clearwater Elementary School in my hometown of Piedmont, Missouri. My observations took place in a third grade classroom with an excellent teacher, Sheri Rainwater, and great students. Clearwater follows a curriculum that helps children develop skills and build on knowledge that is necessary to become successful in the future. During my time at Clearwater, I learned more about young children and the teaching profession. This experience opened my eyes to the reality of teaching, and got me even more excited about entering the field of education.
Through my experience as both a student and observer, passion plays a very important role in effective teaching. With everything Sheri shared with me, there’s one thing I’ll

Assessments were prepared for all week and then on Fridays, testing took place. I felt this could cause poor results on tests at the end of the week. I would try to set up each of my subject areas to test on different days so that the students weren’t bombarded with testing all day, in turn better grades in each subject area. There were also informal assessments that took place during reading stations and seeing these types of assessments helped me understand that they’re an accurate way to track each child’s progress. During this experience, I learned that a variety of assessment tools should be used to effectively assess a child’s progress. I believe using multiple assessment tools shows competency as a

It was rewarding to work individually with these two children. I also learned a great deal about students in the process. I am able to connect to a student on a deeper level when I work with them individually, and with this experience, I connected with both of the students, which helped me with my observations. Getting the students to concentrate on what I wanted them to do was the most difficult because they wanted to talk to me. I enjoy being around children and feel like I am very likeable and worry about this as a future educator. I don’t want my classroom to be out of control because they see how nice I am and take