Blog 4.1: Field Experience/Reflection- Days 1-2

I have been observing in Mr.Taylor's classroom in the Middle School this week. This experience has been very eyeopening in many different ways. Overall, it has been very fun, and I have leared a lot of new things just in the two days that I have been down there. On my first day down at the Middle School, one of the students threw up in front of the whole class. The kid was very embarrest and, his classmates all thought that it was very gross; being this age, they let him know that they found it to be gross. This was a lesson to learn from when looking into being a teacher of this age group. Everyone at this age is pulling further away from being themselves, and they arejust trying to fit in with the crowd. Ms.Taylor first had to help the kis who was sick, then once he left the classroom, she gave the students a little talk about being respectful, and told them that they wouldn't like that either if they had been in the little boy's shoes. On the second day, every group had to present their science projects that they had been working on for the past couple of weeks about either a plants cell, or animal cell. This was a really fun way to learn about the cell for the students. They all seemed to have put forth a lot of effort and, they really enjoyed this project as a whole. If I ever need to teach a study over this in the future, or anything similar to it, I will definetilly be using this project for an example of what to do. One thing that the teacher did on the first day that I learned from was how she handled the situation with the sick boy.You could tell that the boy was very nervous, and didn't want to be there in front of all of his classmates, and she made him feel safe, and got him to the nerse quickly.After getting him to the nerse's office, she came back to the classroom and told the student how disrespectful it was of them to say things like "eww gross" because, he couldn't help it. On the second day, I really liked how Ms.Taylor let the student basically do a show-and-tale for their presentations. The students had to build a cell with one or two partners, after they were all done, they all walked around the classroom, showing all of their classmates. This just helps the kids feel safe, because I remember 6th grade me would have loved to do that much more than actually going up in front of the class and telling my classmates about my project. Over these two days, I have learned that the lower you go in age, the crazier the students get. This age espeically are out of the norm because, they are just starting to figure out who they want to be as a person. Although, being in a classroom with these students is very fun for a short amount of time, I don't think that I could fully handle them for a full school year. This experience has been a lotof fun over these last couple of day; it has actually been the highlight of my days. This age group is very joyful, and entergetic. I have come to the thought that I don't think I could quite handle these kids full time, but they are very fun to see every now and then.