Importance Of Field Experience

Introduction: I am a firm believer that you need to experience your profession before following through with all of the schooling after this course. I have recently visited a couple different field sites where I would observe children and help teach them. This experience taught me so much and related very well to the material I learned in all of my Education courses.

Field Experience Sites: W.G.H.S, Oasis, and Y.E.S I was lucky enough to visit three different sites in which they were all very diverse. The first one that I went to was called Oasis, a Catholic after school program consisting of Hispanic children. The classroom that I tutored was a three year old class. The children in this class barely knew any English and it was very hard

I sat in and helped with a kindergarten class and absolutely loved it! The children in this class were so willing to learn and respected the teacher and myself without being told they had to. This class was much more diverse than the three year old class at Oasis because it was made up of all races and genders while the three year old class was mostly girls and they were all Hispanic children. The girls in my kindergarten class were extra willing to learn and only wanted to make sure they were pleasing me while the boys were more into goofing around all while still doing their

An exceptional learner can be anyone that has a disability, is gifted, or has a talent. I saw almost all of these throughout the three classrooms I observed. First was the kindergarten class, this is the time when you need to be “rating the mental level of maturity, rate of development and reading expectancy of every child in the classroom. The results will enable teachers, school administrators, and curriculum developers to provide for the specific educational needs of each child.” (DeLand 1948) I noticed one or two students who were finishing their work way before the rest of the children on almost every assignment and they would even come up with different ways to get the same answer which was very gifted in my opinion for a kindergartener. The high school students were more on the disabled side, they struggled really hard with math that was made for the elementary