It's a New Semester!

I am so excited about this semesters field placement. My first choice was kindergarten and that is where I will be. Going into this whole graduate experience, I was dead set on wanting to teach the second grade. I have had experiences with this age group before in babysitting and I felt like it was just right for me. For my second field I was placed in was first grade. I found that I loved this age group and working with them. They are so eager to learn and are so excited about their reading and writing and are just starting to get the hang of it. It is such a rewarding age. I am so excited for this semester to do kindergarten because I think I will get even more of that excitement for literacy. I have never been in a kindergarten classroom and I currently teach for work in a pre-K classroom so I am so excited to see what happens after they leave my classroom and to become a part of that. I am even more excited about teaching at such a great title one school that seems to have so many goals set for the year.

As far as the course goes, I am truly enjoying it. I love the feeling that the two classes are really connected and that it is really just one class together. I am loving the Lemov book so far. I know we are just getting into it but I love that it is directed at teachers specifically and that instead of completely new ideas, it describes techniques to enforce what you already know about teaching. I think that because of this the techniques are so applicable, helpful, and easier to remember. Although I have not agreed with all of the details of each specific technique I have agreed with all of the techniques that I have read about and I think that each teacher can make the techniques his or her own in the classroom. I have found that I am doing a lot of the techniques already in the classroom that Lemov has described, I just have never been able to describe them as well. I look forward to reading more and learning more techniques for teaching.