Friday, October 14, 2016
Meeting the Class
Meeting the class of sixth grade students our class will be teaching for the first time was an exciting experience. For our first time there, each group designed a quick activity to help get the class excited about what we will be teaching them that also helped us find out a little of their prior knowledge, in addition to the pretest our class contributed to.
My fieldwork group decided to bring in different types of rocks for the students to see and make observations about. We also asked the students to try and group the rocks in order to see if the students would inadvertently notice characteristics about the rocks that show what type they are and group them accordingly. The students were all quick to offer their thoughts on the rocks: what they looked like, felt like, and so on. The students' eagerness to discuss both with us and each other was exciting to see and made me more excited than I already am to have the opportunity to teach them all. It was interesting to see how each group of students divided the groups of rocks and what characteristics they thought were both uniting and dividing factors. Further, students quickly made connections between the marble and granite pieces we brought in, and counter tops they'd seen or had in their own homes.
The first visit to the school was definitely an experience that will help everyone design lessons based on, and has motivated me further for the fieldwork experience this semester.
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