When I look back at my practicum experience this past semester, I cannot help but smile to myself. This experience was much needed for my teaching career and I feel I have developed so much as an individual. I remember the beginning of the school year, waiting for our assigned times and now I have said my final “see you later” to my class. I was placed with Mrs. Schubert’s kindergarten class at Kellom Elementary. This was my first experience with a public school, and this school has many high needs students which allowed me a true insight on how to deal with individual needs. My teacher only had fourteen students in her class, but I think this is a good thing because my teacher is really able to adapt to all her students’ needs. This practicum experience was also my first time teaching a lesson in front of students, which really made me step outside of my comfort zone. One of the things I really enjoyed about my class was how they truly welcomed me into their school and daily schedule. From watching my teacher handle misbehavior to seeing students expand week by week, I can easily say I am in the right professional field. One of the things, I …show more content…
Hannah” every Tuesday and Friday, but I know I can always go back and pop in. For my good-bye gift I gave all the students a holiday themed pencil along with donating a holiday storybook. I thought it might be fun to incorporate some holiday cheer in the classroom, but also kept it appropriate since I know some students do not celebrate Christmas. I also wrote a little thank you card to Mrs. Schubert and her paraprofessional, Ms. Keisha. I was really blessed to been able to work with these two; they both have great backgrounds in early childhood education along with helping me really grow as a future teacher. My little friends will definitely stick with me as I progress in my teaching profession. I hope I have made some type of happiness or difference in their lives like they have done for
The title of the first presentation was Practicum Experience at Oklahoma Heart Hospital. Joshua Moore is from the Kinesiology-Exercise/Fitness Management and he did his internship at Oklahoma Heart Hospital. Joshua made programs using dumbbells for his group of clients at his Internship. Other responsibilities he had was to monitor them while they exercised, check their ECGs and paperwork. He mentioned that checking their ECGs was the hardest part of the job since he was not very familiar with it from the beginning. Overall, Josh enjoyed working at a cardiac rehab center.
As a college student, I often find myself inundated with work. To make it worse, these assignments usually are uninteresting and irrelevant. It is in the midst of these tedious exercises that I begin to wonder whether all of this work is worth it. When this issue creeps into my mind, I think back to my reasons for choosing to pursue this profession. When I started college, I knew that I could not function in a typical nine to five job. The banality and predictability of such a career simply did not appeal to me. So that essentially ruled out any course of study which would lead to such an occupation. I also knew that I wanted a job that would allow me to make a difference in people’s lives. My mind carefully contemplated the list of possible vocations, and ultimately the field of education seemed to possess the strongest appeal. A teaching career, I figured, would allow me to have a strong impact on the lives of young people. I wanted to help them grow both as students and as people, just as my teachers had done for me. So, despite the warnings of many current teachers, I enlisted myself in a curriculum devoted to teacher preparation.
Coming in to this semester I knew I was going to be taking the foundations of education course but I didn’t know what to expect. After 14 weeks of discussing, learning, and exploring I realized that my passion for teaching has been solidified. I realized the reality and the responsibility that comes with becoming a teacher and I am up for the challenge. We have the power as future teachers to influence our student’s lives in so many ways. We learned that a teacher must carry themselves as the professionals that they are. At the end of this course there are questions that I asked myself that I would of answered completely different in the first week of this course.
A walk through demonstration and rationale discussion completed the WinMed experience. Learning about emergency lighting, testing of emergency lighting, fire extinguishers use/deployment/charge monitoring, sprinkler systems with backflow prevention valve, smoke detector yearly cleaning, cleaning of general areas including bathrooms, trash pickup and disposal, biohazard disposal, sharp containers, standard precautions, and biohazard facility pick up opened my eyes wide to a whole new world.
Being a teacher is a life changing the experience? It’s a great opportunity for you to teach your students all the knowledge you can think of to create a bright future for our little ones. The school that I visited was Santa Maria Elementary, and I interview Mrs. Maria Juanita Lozano, she is Special Education Teacher – PPCD for almost 32 years of experience. Mrs. Lozano loves being with his/her students. These are some things that Mrs. Lozano shared in the interview.
The significance of my practicum experience was by my involvement in a real world research project and my exposure to an extraordinary, collaborative team of physicians, professors, managers, research associates, students and statisticians. My community preceptor is Mrs. Laura Diekman, Program Research Manager for Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) Project at University of Texas Medical School, Rheumatology Department. The first phase of my practicum focused on learning data management processes by my involvement in the AS project. My specific role on the AS project was to ensure proper storage and coding of the five active sites participating in the research (CEDARS-California, NIH, SAN FRANSICO, HOUSTON and Australia) which constituted of approximately 4000 patients.
Throughout the program, I have been thrilled and excited to integrate and be a part of the Frontier community. The warm welcome from the Frontier staff was exceptional which made me feel welcomed. Although the week felt stressful on arrival to campus, I deeply felt Frontier was the right place to be. I felt a sense of belonging. I have grown professionally through the program and my ability to critically think has evolved.
The town and the school reminded me immensely of my hometown and, I felt an immediate connection with the students from the community. Consequently, I recognized what it means to be a teacher throughout those five days when taught the students of the community. Immediately, on Monday we discovered that some of the lessons we had planned before the trip were not the best for the students, therefore, we needed to create modifications on the spot, I grasped that an outstanding teacher needs to be flexible and adapt in order to meet the needs of the students in the classroom. For that reason, we would modify our lessons as the day went since we would teach Kinder through 5th grade all on the same day, it was a daunting task, but in retrospect, I feel a considerable superior confidence with my abilities as an educator. I am eager for my residency to begin in order for me to put into practice the skills I acquired during this study abroad. Without a doubt, I have a different mindset as a beginning teacher due to this experience and I have gained a newfound attitude about what it means to be a
Throughout my final ten weeks at my placement, I have grown and overcome so many obstacles. I have accomplished a wide range of skills since the beginning and have been improving on them as I gained experience. At my placement as a student nurse, I have gained a lot of confidence, skills, knowledge and experiences that have helped me act and work in a professional way. All the experiences I have had during the ten weeks of my student years have helped me in shaping me into a professional.
I believe placing student nurses in the clinical setting is vital in becoming competent nurses. Every experience the student experiences during their placement has an educative nature therefore, it is important for the students to take some time to reflect on these experiences. A specific situation that stood out to me from my clinical experience was that; I didn’t realize I had ignored the patient’s pain until I was later asked by the nurse if the patient was in any pain.
I have been involved in working with venerable people for over twenty years and have worked within many different settings. As part of my work, I have worked with people within sheltered accommodation to more recently, working with vulnerable families living with poverty and deprivation. I have mentored young people who were at risk of being excluded from and often had chaotic home lives, some with Special Educational Needs. Due to the nature of my work, I had needed to have a high level of interpersonal skills and to be approachable to people from all areas and backgrounds of society be they parents, governors to social services or the police.
I have learned not to judge a book by his cover. When the client first came to my office, I thought him was just being lazy in class. The goal should always be
During this semester in middle school principal and practices we spent time doing workshops, which gave us a chance to teach our peers and learn from our peers. We learnt quite a bit during this semester, from Deb as well as from the textbook. We learnt how to teach tweens, what we can do to push the students, engage the student and how we as pre-service teacher and future teachers can improve in our classroom, yet there are still some unanswered questions to be answered as well as some questions that still need to be discussed. This semester the class has had countless opportunities to learn and question what we are learning and ask question that we still have.
I thought about the ways I could help a struggling student, and the sense of pride I would feel when they accomplished a difficult task. I thought about the way my classroom would look, and the fun activities I would incorporate. What I had not thought about were the multitude of challenges I would face in dealing with diverse students. However, having the opportunity to experience some of the challenges teachers face has not deterred me from pursuing a teaching career. As a result of my field experience, I have a far greater passion for teaching and a profound respect for the amazing teachers I have known in my life. I will work tirelessly to ensure that all of my students are inspired as well provided the tools and opportunities they require to
Coming into this class, I figured we would learn about how to handle different kinds of situations from a teacher’s standpoint. As it turns out, the class is much more than just that. I figured there would be group discussions consisting of some controversial issues, but I had no idea how the course would make me feel as a person and as a future educator. So far, this class has brought to light the incredibly difficult decisions I will have to make as a teacher. Not only will those decisions affect the child and parents of that child at hand, but myself as well.