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October 3rd, 2007 by reimer
Today`s visit was to an Elementary school and what an experience. I sat in on a grade 4 class of 26 students of which the was 1 student with cerebral-palsy, 2 with FASD, 3 with learning disabilities and 20 other kids with plenty of energy! There was a CEA in the class to help out and the help was well warranted. I was amazed at the control the teacher was able to maintain during the lesson and how the children responded to her. We had a lesson on spelling, arithmetic and reading comprehension and all children were quite engaged. The next period was to the library were the kids took out books of choice and had sustained reading for appox. half an hour. After snack the kids moved into the activity room and did aerobics with the teacher to for 45 minutes. This seemed like a very practical relevant activity and all seemed to enjoy it. One student was not in class and I was quite saddened to hear that he was in hospital due to burns he had received while he and several other grade school kids were attempting to repeat a stunt they had seen on U-tube, pretty scary stuff……….I will keep this one in mind.
Friday`s class was spent at Mt. Boucherie with Dan Hurd and a few of the other shop teachers. This was a very informative and engaging experience as they did get into some of the real issues facing new and established teachers within the system. I personally enjoyed the stories and reflections from all as they have all been through and can relate to what we will be experiencing in a very short time. They were for most part positive, which was a bit of a refreshing change as the majority of talk from day one has been somewhat skewed towards the negatives of teaching with Gov`t policies, union issues, large classes, lack of funding……etc. I am very sure all of the negatives are out there along with the positives so……well its just like life in general, if your focused on the negative, ……your negative and vice-versa. In fact this has caused me to revaluate some of my personal thoughts towards this schooling experience. The schooling aspect is something I have to do to get to where I want and I am under no obligation to take any more or less than I see fit to help me personally grow as a teacher. Of course as spoken by virtually every teacher I have talked to, it will take me 3-5 years of experience to get to where I am comfortable anyways so……..I`ll try to take what seems applicable and work out the rest over time. During the summer we took Peter Arthur`s technology course and I was introduced to some of the latest forms of electronic communication. I have jumped on board with the blogging aspect for a bit of an electronic record/diary for our son, Ethan. This type of blanket communication is absolutely wonderful and I do see many possibilities with this type of interactive medium for my future role as an educator. You are welcome and invited to check out the happenings over at ’Ethan`s page’. http://reimerpage.blogspot.com/
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