Field Experience Reflection

1. How many hours did you complete?

5 hours

2. In a short paragraph or bulleted list, how did you spend your time?

          I spent my time with my school’s library media specialist.  I teach math and have been wanting to incorporate more literature in my lessons.  We went through the third grade standards and “I Can” statements and picked out the main skills.  Once we did that we pulled all of the books that correlated and incorporated them into our unit plans.  We made a list of skills that we did not have books for and Mrs. Vaughn plans on purchasing them with the money we make this year on our book fair.

3. How did the experience help you to strengthen at least one Kentucky Teacher Standard?

          The field experience helped me strengthen Kentucky Teacher Standard 2: The teacher designs and plans instruction.  Through my work with Mrs. Vaughn, having books planned into our unit plans will ensure that the third grade math teachers are incorporating more literature into our math lessons.

4. Talk a little about one thing you learned because of this field experience.

          I learned just how important it is to incorporate literature across the academic standards.  I have realized just how important it is to bring literature into my math class. 

“Combining math and literature in classroom activities is a way for teachers to invite children into the world of math.”  Marilyn Burns