Our last week of class and placement! Yay! How time flies though....wow!

So I taught my lesson a couple times in field ago and it went pretty smoothly. The children enjoyed the book and were very open to talking afterwards, and this is surprising because they are kindergarteners! I had them do a writing activity after I read "The Little Engine That Could" about a time that they were brave or helped someone out. It was hard for them to grasp the connection between the book we read and that they were supposed to connect it to their lives, but they did a great job writing and telling me about their story and I was really surprised how well their writing samples turned out. It was a great lesson but there are some things that I might change for next time I teach it.

As far as the questions for the discussion this week I thing that a teacher's philosophy on teaching is what guides everything they do. If they firmly believe in following the curriculum by every step, then they are going to be a worksheet and workbook teacher. If they are open to new ideas and investigating new ways to teach the curriculum then they will be able to engage children more physically and the children will be active in their own learning.

I think that all the technologies and new literacies that we have learned about can help a children become more involved in their own learning in the classroom as well as introduce new ideas to old standards of learning for teachers. I am glad to know that when I become a teacher more and more technology will begin to start showing more in the classroom, which gives children and teachers so many options to learning compared to just sitting and listening or just using a chalkboard to teach a lesson.