Sharing "Teacher Moments"

Friday January 31, a great group of student teachers came
together to ask questions and share experiences from the early
days of student teaching.  Some of the comments included:

• being asked if your are going to stay and be our fifth grade teacher!!
• facing emergencies on the playground with no other teacher support and coming through
• dealing with challenging content on student's ipad
• first graders cheating
• 7th graders who don't care
• being asked ....what grade do you want to teach????  because "you are awesome (from a first grader)
• teaching a unit on Napolean and having students do essays and reflecting on areas that students understood and areas that need reteaching!!!

The group was energetic, spontaneous and supportive of each other.  For those that where not able to join us - I am sure you have teacher moments to share as well.  If you have a "moment" that you would like to share.....add your comments below.

Optional - Face to Face and Webex Meeting

On January 31, we will have an "optional" face to face or webex meeting.  The meeting will begin at 4:30 and last about one hour.  The purpose of the meeting will be to clarify any questions you might have, provide support for working with your assignments and give each of you a chance to talk about your first days in the classroom!!

Beginning Student Teaching - Ed. 4800 Reminders

I hope that your first days of student teaching are going well.  In a few weeks you should have completed assignment one.  You can send that document as a collaborative google document, by adding the bsu.ed48000@gmail.com as a collaborator....or someone you are "sharing with".  When you do this you need to remember to allow editing.  Another approach would be to establish your blogger "homepage" any document posted on the internet can be opened without problem.  If neither one of these approaches works for you let me know.


When your work is received and graded you will get a comment back from me and your score will be posted on the D2L grade sheet.  Remember the only thing we are using the D2l site for is for posting grades.

I have posted online office hours - click on office hours to access the page.  You should be able to sign up for face to face or phone conferences.

Good luck with your first days!!!

Dr. Smith

Welcome to Ed. 4800

Ed. 4800 is a course that is designed to provide summative documentation of our teaching skills. Four assignments are completed for the course. Documents are posted on the web via a "google blog" page. These web pages are easy to create and do not require special server space or software.

You will need to create a "google" account to complete the course assignments. The course web site, course email, and google documents and blogs will be used for the development and submission of your work.

At the end of your semester, you should have created a "web' documentation of your teaching skills which could be used for job search.

Be sure to send all correspondence to the course email address bsu.ed4800@gmail.com

Have a great semester!