As an incentive to follow along and participate they had a class money system where they would receive paper pennies they could put in their "banks". I like this idea because it encourages students to participate every step of the way, but it is also a way to encourage learning. You can use money to teach about money, and economy. As well as use it to teach about simple addition and subtraction. Money is something that can be related to the real life, and teach them about actual life experiences they will use. I really enjoyed my time in the classroom this week. It gave me lots of ideas of things I could implement in my own class one day.
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Blog #2 Learning Theories
This week in my observations I noticed that my fieldwork teacher, Ms. Booth, used several learning theories in her classroom to help facilitate learning and classroom management. The theory I observed her use most was behaviorism. One of the ways that I saw behaviorism was when the students brought back a signed paper they were given a candy. They also had several systems such as class and table tally marks, which the reward was never stated but I can imagine that when the class gets so many points they get a reward.
As an incentive to follow along and participate they had a class money system where they would receive paper pennies they could put in their "banks". I like this idea because it encourages students to participate every step of the way, but it is also a way to encourage learning. You can use money to teach about money, and economy. As well as use it to teach about simple addition and subtraction. Money is something that can be related to the real life, and teach them about actual life experiences they will use. I really enjoyed my time in the classroom this week. It gave me lots of ideas of things I could implement in my own class one day.
As an incentive to follow along and participate they had a class money system where they would receive paper pennies they could put in their "banks". I like this idea because it encourages students to participate every step of the way, but it is also a way to encourage learning. You can use money to teach about money, and economy. As well as use it to teach about simple addition and subtraction. Money is something that can be related to the real life, and teach them about actual life experiences they will use. I really enjoyed my time in the classroom this week. It gave me lots of ideas of things I could implement in my own class one day.
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Service Learning Location: Blog #1
The place I have chosen to do my service learning project in at Bellview Elementary in the Canyon School District. I chose this location because it is close to my current place of employment. As I look up information about the school, some things that I found interesting are the demographics. I noticed that they have a high percentage of students coming from low income families. Their test scores on average are also right with the state averages or even in some cases they were lower than the state average. It will be interesting to see how these demographics compare to my experiences I've had so far in a classroom. Just as a side note, Ive been working in a private school for the last year, so this is will be very interesting to compare the similarities and differences.
As I went to the school website I was impressed by their mission statement. One of the main points in their mission statement is that "Individuals have the right to a positive and safe school environment." I like this because I believe that when you achieve this among teachers, students and parents you can foster the best learning environment. You will also find the most success as you create a classroom where its safe and consistent to learn in. If they are successful in their mission statement, I am excited to be at their school observing and learning from them.
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