Smith's Special Stories

  Introduction: My name is Iolas Smith and I am currently a senior taking a class called Educational Technology to help myself become a Pre-Educator. In today's blog post I will be going over my middle school observations. For these observations I had the same teacher for my 2-week. Middle School Observation 1 = For my first middle school observation I had a teacher named Mrs.Cooper. She is the music teacher in the middle and the choir teacher. For my first observation with her she went over the song firework with her students and she taught them a lot about lines and spaces in music. Then the students played a game to help them get more familiar with were spaces and the lines are on a staff. In the observation I learned how to make class time more fun and enjoyable for students. Middle School Observation 2 = Something You Learned = Greatest Takeaway   Conclusion:

   Introduction: My name is Iolas Smith and in this blog post I will be going over my Jr.High Observations. These are observations that I do for an Educational Technology class. Jr.High Observation 1 = My first Jr.High observation for the year was a teacher named Mr.Freeman. Mr.Freeman is a science teacher for the 9th grade. In this observation I learned a lot about how to be patient with students who are not very respectful to you in your classroom. During this observation there were a lot of students that were disruptive during his class. He kept his calm and tried to redirect his class in a very civil way. I loved how he did it very respectfully and calmly but was productive. I would love to use this type of redirection in my classroom. Jr.High Observation 2 = My second observation for the Jr.High was a teacher named Mrs.Cude. Mrs.Cude was a math teacher but I am unsure of what grade she was teaching. During my observation she was helping students study and get ready for o...

   Introduction: My name is Iolas Smith and I am currently a senior taking an Educational Technology class to help become an educator. In this blog post I will be sharing my experience with my first 2 observations of the year, which would be my high school observations. High School 1 = My first high school observation was with a teacher named Mrs.Cardenas. She is a 10th grade geometry teacher. This observation went really well and I learned a lot about classroom management and the best ways to get students to stay engaged. I also learned some different websites you can use in the classroom. High School 2 = For my second high school observation I observed a teacher named Mrs.Weaver. She was teaching her piano 1 class. In this observation I learned that repetition is memorization in a classroom. I also learned that it is very important to always make sure that each student is understanding what you are teaching. In order to make sure of this, I should go around to each student a...