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Field Placement: Three/Four-Year-Old

Elizabethtown Child Care Center, Elizabethtown, PA       September 2015-October 2015

•I observed what it was like to be an elementary school teacher with the material they would teach and the activities they would participate in.

•I sat with the kids and helped them with the activities they would do such as painting, bingo, and reading.

 

Field Placement: Seventh Grade

Elizabethtown Area Middle School, Elizabethtown, PA           October 2015-October 2015

•I observed what it was like to be a middle school teacher with the material they would teach and the activities they would participate in.

•While the kids worked on worksheets, I would walk around and observe the students as well as help them answer questions. I also graded some of their tests.

 

Field Placement: High School

Lower Dauphin High School, Hummelstown, PA             November 2015-November 2015

•I observed what it was like to be a high school teacher with the material they would teach and the activities they would participate in.

 

Field Placement: High School

Manheim Township High School, Lancaster, PA                     March 2015 -April 2015

•I observed what it was like to be a high school teacher with the material they would teach and the activities they would participate in.

•I got to see a different kind of teaching environment because the teacher I was with does a “stations” teaching style which includes learning a lesson first via online video, then learning the material with the teacher in a group, and lastly a worksheet covering the material.

•While the teacher teaches a group of students, I walk around the room answering questions about the worksheets or the video lessons.

 

Field Placement: High School

Donegal High School, Mount Joy, PA                   September 2015 – December 2015

•I observed two learning support mathematics classrooms and learned what it is like to be a special education high school teacher.

•The two classrooms had students with various disabilities such as Learning Disabilities, Traumatic Brain Disorder, Intellectual Disabilities, Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder, Emotional Behavioral Disorders, and one student who had self-esteem/ self-confidence problems.

•I helped students with problems that encountered during class, answered questions, taught lessons, and taught some students one-on-one material that they were struggling with.

•I learned how to properly teach students with disabilities and how to handle a classroom with widely varying abilities.

 

Independent Study

Rowland Middle School, Harrisburg, PA                                January 2017 – Present

•Another Elizabethtown College Mathematics Education student and I arranged an independent study at Rowland Middle School to experience the challenges and benefits of working at an urban school and to learn the “ins and outs” of urban teaching

•Every week I walk around and answer questions students have about the material they are learning. I also alternate teaching a lesson and a DO-NOW with the other Elizabethtown student.

•The other college student and I research urban teaching through reading books and conducting interviews with students, teachers, and administrators.

 

Internship: Eleventh and Twelfth Grade

Hershey High School, Hershey, PA                                        August 2013-May 2014

•I walked around and answered questions for students working on worksheets.

•I created worksheets, review sheets, and seating charts for the students to complete in class or for homework.

•In class, I went over review sheets, taught lessons, and went over homework in front of the class.

•I explored what it was like to be a teacher and gained experience as a teacher.

 

Helping at Local High School

Hershey High School, Hershey, PA                                             Fall 2015 - Fall 2016

•During my fall and spring breaks, I went back to the high school I graduated from to help with the math department. I walked around to answer students’ questions and taught a lesson to a class.

 

Education Organization

Elizabethtown, PA                                                                          Fall 2015-Present

•As a member of this organization, I have participated in various events that have contact with children. Many of these events require taking care of and helping children such as a Math Fun Night (an elementary school evening function for kids to participate in math activities), a book/ craft sale (I helped young children pick out books and do crafts), an afternoon program at a local church called Wildlife (I played games, did crafts, and helped teach a bible story to children), and Into the Streets (I went into the community to teach children how to make a craft)

 

Home Placement

Elizabethtown, PA                                                                                      Fall 2016

•For my Foundations of Inclusionary Practice class, I and three other students had a community placement in a home with three children with autism, one of those children also has right sided hemiplegia cerebral palsy. I worked with the two children who have ASD by designing fun scavenger hunts that required problem-solving, reading and writing skills, social interactions with others, and fine motor skills since the mother told us these were the boys’ weakest areas.

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