Field Experience Reflection

This semester was my first semester taking any education courses. I did learn a lot about and in the teaching field but because this was my first semester I feel I needed help on a few things. Being this is my first semester I know that I will acquire more information on my way through the teacher-training program. I am very excited and open to learning as much as I can and take in the experiences that are yet to come my way in this journey. One area of needed help would be my nervousness first of all. I don't know how much your program deals with getting students over this.
My service I provided at the site was helping the student’s with different assignments and activities that they was assigned. Nothing disappointed about the my service experience because every questions that I had was answered by observation with the children and my hands on experience with them. I love working with children and it was easy due to the understanding I give them and patience. I love how they should me that my help was appreciated with a smile, hugs, and thanks you. I know that classroom management is big thing and I did take in a many different ideas and ways on how I can provide and promote this, and I would like to obtain more knowledge on how I can be effective in giving the correct discipline when that time comes or if I should have too; so that is something I will have to learn on my own when it comes to children. My career goals haven’t change in the educational dept with my field experience. The only thing I want to do is further my education beyond a bachelor degree to a master’s degree. New skills I learn is not to be afraid to tell the children with explaining how you want thing done in your classroom and what you expect from them with sugar coating words. Self-learning skills are taught to the children from to how write their names, thinking process on activities and how to become independent to solve problems. The were also played an memory strategies to help them rehearsal (mentally repeating information over and over), organization (placing items to be remembered into logical categories), and elaboration (making up imaginary connections when there is no logical link among items).
I enjoyed a lot of my observation because I’ve never had the opportunity to work with children in a classroom setting. I had so much fun working with little kids because they talk and express their ideas in very different ways. The experience was important to me because hands on experience helps me to understand something fully and to gain an understanding on how to apply strategies to help the needs with children so they can become successful in learning skills. I connected everything I learned to my long terms goals by completing my degree to ensure I do my part by teaching, guiding, and help to develop learning skills.