Week Five!!!

School Visits

         This week we visited Crest Middle School. I sat in a 6th grade classroom, and they were learning about Mesopotamia and remembering the "GRAPES" for Mesopotamia. This visit was way different than my elementary school visit. My elementary school classroom that i visited was very chaotic and students doing different things, so there was more activity going on. In my middle school class everything had its correct place. The students were so well behaved and only talked unless their hands were raised. This made me really confirm my choice to be an elementary education major. I like how the students are younger and don't understand everything just quite yet, and they are more interactive and active. This is something that I really like. It did open the door for me to maybe want to teach a higher grade level within elementary education.
        One thing that I really liked about this classroom was how organized the teacher was. Everything was in the correct spot and the students understood that. I think this really helped with the flow of the classroom. Also, the teacher would put the learning targets for each assignment on the board. I think this really helps the students to understand what is being asked of them to learn for that current day. This also helps with the NCTCS by making sure we are teaching the NCSCOS. I think that was a really easy feature to add to the classroom, so the students really understand what they are supposed to be learning. I really enjoyed going to Crest Middle and observing, it was such a great experience.

Technology 

        This week while looking up how teachers can include technology more in the classrooms, I found this website called www.webs.com. This is a website generator website, that will help someone create a free website. I was reading an article that discussed how teachers were using this site to create a Classroom Webpage. I thought this idea was really neat. It is kinda how Blackboard works, with each class having their own page. I really like this idea for my classroom. I think it is such a great idea to have a class webpage so I can post announcements and homework that students may have missed in classroom! I think this would be awesome to have when I am a teacher. 

My Future Classroom

            Seeing how organized that middle school classroom was, it makes me want to be an organized teacher as well. This way the students will understand where things go, and what they are supposed to be doing. I think having an organized classroom will also really help the students being able to learn also. On top of an organized classroom, I would love to have a classroom webpage for the parents and the students. This way they are able to look at the webpage and see the learning targets, and assignments for the week. I think this tool would be so beneficial for my classroom.