This week started my placement at Romulus. Its a very interesting group of students, and I anticipate it to be really challenging and rewarding. I'm a bit intimidated but I know I'll get over it once I get up there a couple times.... but its those first few times I'm worried about!
I went to the workshop about using cell phones with your teaching, and there were a bunch of interesting resources. I'll have to look into Romulus's policy- I know in general they don't allow phones to be seen, but I'm not sure how willing they'd be to let me incorporate them into a lesson. But we also learned about a bunch of activities that could also be an out of school assignment. I'm still not too sure how I feel about using cell phones as a learning tool- there certainly are a lot of options but as always there are a lot of potential distractions. Another thing I noticed is that alot of the resources require you to create an account & the process of using them is sometimes complex. I'm concerned that it might take longer to explain the tool & instructions & get everyone comfortable with knowing how to do the assignment/project than it would actually be worth. But who knows, I guess that's something I'll figure out from experience. Like I said before, preparation is definitely going to be critical to the success of these sorts of things.
I still have a bunch of questions about what I'm supposed to teach and when, for my student teaching, but they'll get answered in time. I'm sure I'm worrying way more than I need to but I can already tell which students are going to be the most challenging and not having any teaching experience I feel like I'm not going to be able to able to do it. Ok thats enough of that...
Nese- if you read this, I'd be interested in coming to your school to observe you! I've got to go to a couple different schools and see various teachers, which I agree will be so good, but I have no idea how or when all this is going to happen, haha.
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I have questions about cellphone use in the classroom as well. In Wayne-Westland, there is a super strict policy against cellphone use. If a teacher sees a cellphone it's taken away until a parent comes to pick it up. Is there an alternative thing that we can use in our classrooms to take polls instead of cellphones?
I was thinking the same thing about using the cellphones at Romulus... I feel like after our teacher meetings we may get fired for it haha. I completely agree with your statement about preparation being key, because if one little thing throws you off while teaching something, the whole hour could be wasted. I am sure we have all experienced that with one teacher or another.
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