I absolutly love the kindergarten classroom that I am in at Summerville Elementary! The room is a nice size, and the teacher has collected many great reources to use with her class. Interstingly enough, my copperating teacher graduated from the M.A.T program, and she has been teaching for 20 plus years! She loves teaching kindergarten, and I blelieve that I will learn a lot from her this semester.
One ting I noticed about the way my cooperating teacher teaches is the fast pace in which she moves from one lesson to the necxt. I noticed that she does this in a very efficient way, and it reminded me of the reading we did about planning lessons so that they get direcly to the point of what you are trying to teach. I believe that with small children, such as kindergarteners, their attention span is short, so teachers must plan lessons that will be engaging, and will be able to be taught in such a way that the students quickly comprehend the objective of the lesson. If lessons are too long and drawn out, then teachers of this grade level are not able to keep the attention of their students. I am not syaing that it is not importabnt to thouroughly plan out lessons step by steo, but I think that in classrooms with younger students, the teacher will find it to be more efficient to plan lesson that quickly get to the point of the lesson.
I am excited about this weeks filed, and I cannot wait to learn more about the students' and the family that I will meet.
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