Drake+Bachmeier

Type in the content of your page here. =**This wikispace logs Drake Bachmeier's experiences in the classroom during the spring 2010 ELED SEED PE ****Paraprofessional Experience **=

This is the first field experience of the teacher education program. Its purpose is to provide insight into the real world of teaching in the K-8 and 7-12 setting. It provides a “hands-on” experience in which students may ask questions and share concerns they may have regarding the teaching profession. The experience will provide an opportunity to observe, record, and assess student behavior, effective teaching practices, and characteristics of different learning environments appropriate for children. This course will provide structure and guidance for the students as they observe, gather information, and reflect on teaching as a career. John Dewey, one of the most famous American educators, wrote extensively about reflective teaching. He defined reflective teaching as avoiding the “routine” and “impulsive” behaviors in favor of taking the time to “give serious consideration” to our actions. According to Dewey, the intelligent person thinks before he or she acts, and action becomes deliberate and intentional. In order for students to secure knowledge and insight from the field experience, their observations and participation have to be made with careful, analytical, and deliberate planning. Paraprofessional students develop their leadership skills while contributing to, learning from and influencing the learning of others.  2010SyllabusPara.pdf ParaChecklist.doc

Placement Course List Goals Contextual Factors FBS Interview Observation of Effective Teaching Lesson Plan, Analysis of Lesson Plan, FBS Feedback form for independent lesson Resume Working Journal Recorded Activities Time Sheet

**Drake Bachmeier's Fall 2009 Paraprofessional Placement** Back to Syllabus and Contents List
 * School: || Beresford Elementary ||
 * Field-based supervisor: || Kelly Knutson ||
 * Content area or grade level: || Physical Education ||
 * FBS e-mail address: || Kelly.Knutson@k12.sd.us ||
 * FBS phone: || (605) 763-5012 ||
 * USD instructor || Mary Collins, Phone: 605-677-5155, e-mail: mary.collins@usd.edu ||

**Course List** The course list is a list of all of the courses you have taken, including the ones in which you are currently enrolled. Use a table format and categorize courses in sections. In each section, list the prefixes alphabetically, i.e. ENGL before ESCI. If you have multiple courses with the same prefix, list them in numerical order, i.e. PE 100, PE 271, PE 354, PE 468. Please refer to Rita Book's example. Be sure your name is at the top of the page. Link the course list to the title of this section. It will also go in your electronic portfolio. Rita Book course listing.pdf

= Goals =

Write 3 SMART goals that you would like to accomplish during your field based experience this semester. These achievable goals should be based on School of Education Standards (available in Content and Materials).


 * S**pecific
 * M**easurable
 * A**ttainable
 * R**ealistic/**R**elevant
 * T**imely/**T**imebound

Standard:**
 * __Goal 1__

Standard:**
 * __Goal 2__

Standard:**
 * __Goal 3__

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**Contextual Factors**

** TASK ** Write a description of your paraprofessional placement. In your description, include the following: The rubric is on the Contents and Materials page. Link your paper to the title of this section.
 * **Community, district, and school factors:** Address geographic location, community and school population, socio-economic profile and race/ethnicity. You might also address such things as stability of community, political climate, community support for education, and other environmental factors.
 * **Classroom factors:** Address physical features, availability of technology equipment and resources and the extent of parental involvement. You might also discuss other relevant factors such as classroom rules and routines, grouping patterns, scheduling and classroom arrangements.
 * **Student characteristics:** Address student characteristics you must consider as you design instruction and assess learning. Include factors such as age, gender, race/ethnicity, special needs, achievement/developmental levels, culture, language, interests, learning styles/modalities or students/skill levels.
 * **Instructional implications.** Address how contextual characteristics of the community, classroom and students have implications for instruction.

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= Professional Interview of FBS  =

a. Format: word processed b. Recommended length: 1-2 pages c. Include:
 * 1) 5 professional questions
 * 2) Field-based supervisor’s responses to the 5 professional questions
 * 3) Description of how the responses relate to the corresponding SOE standards.

Link your paper to the title of this section.

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**Observation of Effective Teaching**

Record your observation of the following ten categories. Use this wiki throughout your placement; remember that these situations will not occur in one day. Record the date(s) of the observation and a paragraph description of the methods/strategies observed.
 * Criteria for Observation of Effective Teaching **
 * Time Effectiveness **
 * 1. Focus **
 * Date of observation: **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">(The teacher provides a brief transition or preparation activity during the time that students are arriving or switching from the activity just finished to a new activity. //Example//: The teacher puts new vocabulary words on the board for students to define while taking roll.) **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. Objective/Purpose **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Date of observation: **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">(The teacher states objectives for the lesson and/or identifies for students why the lesson is important and useful. //Example:// "Today we are going to learn about fire safety so you know how to make your own home safer from fire.") **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. Monitoring/Adjusting **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Date of observation: **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">(The teacher takes the time during instruction to make certain that students understand the material being presented and does what is necessary to be understood. //Example//: The teacher puts another math problem on the board to demonstrate a formula after student questions.)) **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. Guided Practice **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Date of observation: **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">(Students are given opportunities to practice the behavior specified in the objective(s) after the instruction has been presented. //Example//: Everyone measures chemicals in science, then has teacher check to see that measurements are correct before moving on.) **


 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">Student Motivation **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. Independent Practice **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Date of observation: **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">(Students can perform the desired behavior on their own. //Example//: Students are working on their own without teacher assistance.) **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">6. Student Interest/Motivation **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Date of observation: **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">(The teacher's instruction results in sustained student interest and students seem to be enjoying the task. Few, if any, discipline problems.) **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">7. Student Involvement **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Date of observation: **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">(The teacher makes student involvement an essential part of the learning process by both providing opportunities for it and obtaining it.) **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">8. Classroom Climate **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Date of observation: **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">(The atmosphere and appearance of the classroom is welcoming and conducive to learning.) **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">9. Constructive Criticism **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Date of observation: **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">(While letting the student know that his/her response is incorrect, the teacher does something to help the student maintain his/her self-worth.) **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">10. Prompts **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Date of observation: **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">(When students need help, the teacher asks questions or provides suggestions which point the learner toward the correct answer.) **

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= Lesson Plan and Analysis = =<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Link your lesson plan and analysis to the title of this section. (You do not need to hand in anything from the lesson that you co-teach.) You will hand in a hard copy of the FBS feedback form from the lesson. =

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= Resume = <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Link your resume to the title of this section. Back to Syllabus and Contents List

= Working Journal: Four Journal Entries =

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;">Framework for Writing - Use this format of **Description**, **Analysis**, and **Reflection** for __each__ of the four entries. One entry should describe your work with an individual or group of students; one entry should describe your creation of a bulletin board or PowerPoint, or your use of the internet for researching material for a lesson; one entry should describe the lesson you cooperatively teach with the Field Based Supervisor; and one entry can be an observation/interaction of your choice.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Work with an individual or group of students **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Description: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> A retelling of what happened in a classroom situation. This kind of writing is meant to "set the scene" for the readers. Your description should be logically ordered and detailed enough to allow readers to have a basic sense of your classroom situation.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Analysis: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Analysis deals with reasons, motives, and interpretation. Analytic writing shows readers the thought processes that you used to arrive at the conclusions you made about a teaching situation. Analysis demonstrates the significance of the evidence you submit.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Reflection: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> A thought process that occurs after a classroom situation. This is the thinking that allows you to make decisions about how you would approach similar situations in the future. You could decide to do something the same way, differently, or not at all. Although reflective thought may occur in many places, the "Reflection" section of your journal entry is where you must show teachers how you use what you learn from the experience to inform and improve your practice in the future.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Your creation of a bulletin board or PowerPoint or your use of the internet for researching material for a lesson **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Description: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> A retelling of what happened in a classroom situation. This kind of writing is meant to "set the scene" for the readers. Your description should be logically ordered and detailed enough to allow readers to have a basic sense of your classroom situation.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Analysis: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Analysis deals with reasons, motives, and interpretation. Analytic writing shows readers the thought processes that you used to arrive at the conclusions you made about a teaching situation. Analysis demonstrates the significance of the evidence you submit.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Reflection: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> A thought process that occurs after a classroom situation. This is the thinking that allows you to make decisions about how you would approach similar situations in the future. You could decide to do something the same way, differently, or not at all. Although reflective thought may occur in many places, the "Reflection" section of your journal entry is where you must show teachers how you use what you learn from the experience to inform and improve your practice in the future.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The lesson you cooperatively teach with the Field Based Supervisor **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Description: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> A retelling of what happened in a classroom situation. This kind of writing is meant to "set the scene" for the readers. Your description should be logically ordered and detailed enough to allow readers to have a basic sense of your classroom situation.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Analysis: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Analysis deals with reasons, motives, and interpretation. Analytic writing shows readers the thought processes that you used to arrive at the conclusions you made about a teaching situation. Analysis demonstrates the significance of the evidence you submit.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Reflection: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> A thought process that occurs after a classroom situation. This is the thinking that allows you to make decisions about how you would approach similar situations in the future. You could decide to do something the same way, differently, or not at all. Although reflective thought may occur in many places, the "Reflection" section of your journal entry is where you must show teachers how you use what you learn from the experience to inform and improve your practice in the future.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">An observation/interaction of your choice **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Description: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> A retelling of what happened in a classroom situation. This kind of writing is meant to "set the scene" for the readers. Your description should be logically ordered and detailed enough to allow readers to have a basic sense of your classroom situation.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Analysis: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Analysis deals with reasons, motives, and interpretation. Analytic writing shows readers the thought processes that you used to arrive at the conclusions you made about a teaching situation. Analysis demonstrates the significance of the evidence you submit.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Reflection: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> A thought process that occurs after a classroom situation. This is the thinking that allows you to make decisions about how you would approach similar situations in the future. You could decide to do something the same way, differently, or not at all. Although reflective thought may occur in many places, the "Reflection" section of your journal entry is where you must show teachers how you use what you learn from the experience to inform and improve your practice in the future.

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= 30 hours of field-based classroom participation =
 * **Date** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Hours ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Description of my activities/participation in the classroom.... ** ||
 * 2/23 || 4 || First time meet with Mrs. Knutson and meet some of the kids. Every Morning the kids have a 20 min walking period before school so I walked with some of the kids and meet them. Then the first class came in and we did some warm ups with jump ropes, by jumping in place then when Mrs. Knutson gave to go ahead the girls would go down the court with the jump ropes but skipping while jumping. Then when the girls were done the boy followed. They did different excersies with that like running, hopping, and running backwards. After the warm-up we started the volleyball unit by teaching the kids the forearm pass, in three different stages. The first stage was from sitting down then on one knee then we moved up to athletic possiton. After the forearm pass we did a quick lesson on the serve. After that it took most of the peroid we then played matball for the last ten minutes of class. I observed three class and I believe they were all in the fourth and fith grades. ||
 * 3/12 || 5 || This time I got to work with some of the younger kids which was really fun. We were working on your bowling skills today so we had the kids get into six groups of three. Then I set up three pins in front of all six groups and then one kid bowl a gator ball and one would be behind the pins to catch the ball and the last kid would be on the other side of the court to bowl next. It was a great warm up because I was helping and I was sweaty pretty good. We did this for about 15 min switching up from where they started to bowl and which had they had to bowl with. After the warm up played a game boys vs. girls and we had all the pins spread out on both sides of the court and the game was to which team knocked over all the pins they would win. Not all classes had a great riverarly with the boys vs. girls but one class it was a huge competition and the girls won both times! Also I helped out Mrs. Knutson in here health class that was only twenty minutes. They presented their projects that they created a hygiene product. Overall it was a great experience and I am loving it more every time. ||
 * 3/23 || 5 || I got to the school when classes have not started yet so some of the kids were walking in the gym. They were all of the older kids. During my time I was with the forth graders and first we had the kids go around in a circle and do different activities like crab walk, walk on their toes. This was the warm up for the class. After the circle we had the class find a partner. We had the kids do a activity called the broken arrow which gave the kids an ab workout. The other partner had to put their feet on the wall and push off with their hands for a shoulder work out. Most of the kids could do this activity but it was a pretty hard work out. After that we tried out a new product called jump bands. It is an activity that works on following directions and their jumping skills. Most of the kids failed the first time but it was an activity that we saw what they would do after they failed. ||
 * 3/25 || 5 || Today I had a great time really working with the kids. Our activity today was jump bands but it was a little bit more difficult. It was a great experience working one on one with the kids to work on the right foot steps. I even had to take five minutes to my self and practice a couple of times because it was very hard. Some classes got it right away and some it took them the whole class period to figure it out. This was the second time for the classes working on jump bands and I think they had a better time this time then the first experience. ||
 * 3/26 || 5 || This was an experience what was very different then all of my other ones. My teacher, Mrs. Knutson, puts on a program that helps out local and national heart patients get better with heart disease. Instead of meeting at the regular elementary school we met at the high school. The program was going to bring all the kids over by grade and do a bunch of different activities to get your heart rate going. All the kids had a chance to raise money that goes to this program. It was a great experience to see all of the kids work hard to save heart cancer. ||
 * 4/13 || 4 || Well I am almost done with my hours and now I am getting into a great relationship with the kids. It kind of sucks that my experience is about to come to a end. Mrs. Knutson was felt good to see me because track season is at full force and all the classes are taking their presidential fitness tests. It felt good to take some of the pressure off of her for the four hours that I helped out. Today we had the kids do some jump rope warm ups and then we had them take the sit-up test. We separated all the kids into groups of three and each student had one minute to do as many sit-ups as possible. It seemed quite easy for some of the kids but some had a hard time with it. But overall I was very impressed with the effort of the kids, which I am everyday I get to work the Beresford kids. After all of the testing we played a game that was mattball and baseball put together. It was a very fun game for me and the kids. One thing I would of changed would be that the tee was too high for most of the kids but there was nothing Mrs. Knutson could do. I also brought by some ideas of some lesson plans for Mrs. Knutson to look over so next time I will complete my lesson. ||
 * 4/16 || 5 ||  ||

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