Hello everyone! My name is Mollie Wilson and I am a full-time student at Columbia College. I am studying to be an elementary teacher and will be graduating in May of 2016. At the beginning of college, I was sure that I wanted to teach lower elementary. Now, it is becoming more and more clear that I want to work with upper elementary students, or even middle school. I want to become a Reading Specialist post-undergrad when I obtain my Master's degree.
So far, I have had many classes with field experience in college, each with their own unique experiences. Education courses I have taken with field experience include:
EDUC 100 Into to Education
EDUC 198 Field Experience I
EDUC 298 Field Experience II
EDUC 300 Techniques of Teaching
EDUC 311 Behavior Management
EDUC 331 Teaching of Reading
EDUC 380 Diagnostic and Corrective Reading
I still have to take EDUC 358 Teaching Math in Elementary Schools, which will allow me to teach a math lesson.
In my Behavior Management course, we had an interesting experience. Has anyone heard of TeachLive? For those of you who don't know, TeachLive is a virtual classroom where you can teach students by looking on a television and interacting with them firsthand. It was great to get that practice from inside our course classrooms, but it was definitely stressful anticipating the lessons we taught. Of course, since the course was about managing behaviors, my instructor made it to where the virtual students had pretty bad misbehaviors, and we were given the task of trying to control these behaviors while trying to teach our lesson. It was definitely a learning experience, and we get to use this TeachLive program again in my science course this semester, EDUC 352.
That's all for now. Thanks for reading!
Hi Mollie! It's Katy Shaffer from your Educ 338 class. I really loved all the field experience that Columbia College focuses on. My previous field experiences are what really sealed the deal for me and validated my choice in pursuing the field of education. Thanks for sharing about TeachLive as I had not heard of that before...what a great experience and exposure you got!
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by and reading my blog post, Katy! I look forward to this course. :)
DeleteHey Mollie! Great to "see" you again! Education 311 was an interesting experience. TeachLive was definitely a new feature for us all and it seemed we always had technical difficulties. When we had that class together I felt we always had to be on our toes with the things we were learning and doing. I wish you the best in your professional career!
ReplyDeleteAnthony, YES. I agree. I wish you the best, too! Good luck in your courses.
Delete