Field Experience Report

1. Provide demographics of school, number of students in class and who your cooperating teacher is.
I did my field experience at Crescent Elementary in the Canyons School District in Sandy. I loved the school! They have a great facility. They have a huge field outside where the students can be active. They have many uses of technology, I was actually shocked. They have a full computer lab with over 30 Mac desktop computers. There is a Mac desktop in every classroom that is used for the smartboards. Each teacher has a Mac laptop to use for their school work. Also, the school has a mobile lab of Mac laptops. A class can rent the mobile lab out and its a full class set of these computers. It’s amazing! I had 27 students in my class and my cooperating teacher was Casey Draper. I was in a 6th grade class.


2. How is your relationship with your cooperating teacher? Explain.
I think I have a great relationship with Miss Draper. We get along great and we have a lot in common. She was a great help to me and I know she really appreciated all the help I could give her in her class. She gave me a lot of great tips and explained how a lot of a teacher’s career works. I think I got really lucky to have Miss Draper be the first teacher I got to work with.


3. How does he/she feel about the technology piece you created?
She liked the digital story I created because it was an introduction to what I was teaching and it was specifically what the students NEEDED to know for the exams.


4. How does he/she feel about the lesson you completed?
Casey said she thought my lesson was well planned. I had to adjust it everyday to make it work better and she really appreciated that I could change and fix my lesson as I went on. She told me that I had good information and that she thinks the students got what they needed out of it without being bored. She was also glad that I used the technology that I did for the lesson to liven it up.


5. How did the the training session go? Explain.
Casey had already heard of Photo Story and knew a little bit about it so it was pretty easy. I just explained the steps and process of creating a digital story, but she basically knew everything already. She was very up to date on all the technology stuff. She helped the whole school with anything they needed with technology so I got lucky!


6. How do you feel about this service-learning experience?
It was good for me to go over it with someone because when I teach something it helps me know more about it, but I’m glad Casey already knew about it so I didn’t have to really teach teach her cause I think the assignment is a little weird.


7. What did your cooperating teacher gain from the experience?
I think she just really appreciated the extra help in the classroom. There were a few students that needed one on one help with several subjects so having another person in their to help just them even was huge for their class.


8. What did you gain from the experience?
I loved this experience! I love my class and Casey was great to shadow and learn from. I learned a lot! I got to sub for her one day because, well they had a sub their but she asked me to teach because I knew the routine and the students knew me. But it was quite the eye opener for me. I loved it. That day I really knew that this is what I want to do and all the hard work and school is going to be worth it. I’m very excited to be a teacher and I’m glad that I had such a great experience and learned so much my first semester in the program. I am very excited for the next chance I’ll get to be in a classroom.


9. Was it worth why or why not?
Yes it was worth it! I learned so much, like I said before. It was such a great experience for me and it helped me see really how much work teachers put in to everyday. I loved learning and meeting the students and getting to teach them a few things. It was great!