Exploring as A Future Educator

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  Native Tribe Project Reflection: For this project, we did not have time to complete with our groups as a jigsaw style assignment. If I were to complete this project, I would have looked forward to working with my co-teachers. It's great to see what other people are thinking in comparison to my own thoughts of the topic. Overall, I think this project is great because it contains many aspects of teaching social studies such as geography and artifacts. Learning about a new culture can spark interest in many students or even allow them to relate and share stories.  Current Event Practice Reflection: As a class, we used a source called newsELA to read an article about Russia and Ukraine. Following the reading, we answered questions (quiz style) and completed a short answer question. I think that current events are very important for students to read about so they are aware of what goes on in our world!

I can't believe it's the end of the spring semester already! We had our last class on Thursday, May 5th, 2022. Although I did feel overwhelmed sometimes during this class, I learned so much more than I thought I would and Dr. Smirnova pushed us to reach our best potential, I am grateful for that.  I really love the idea of blogging as it allowed me to go back and see what I have learned during the semester. Each week as I sat down to make my blog post, I was able to summarize what I have learned that week. The blog is something I will keep forever, look back on, and potentially use for my future students one day. I'd love to create a blog where parents can keep up with student progress as well! I enjoyed working with my fieldwork group on various different projects this semester as well. (Myself, Maddie B, Brianna, Kayleigh, and Madison R). The Bishop Dunn teaching experience did not go too well for me as I was running into so many technical difficulties but working with my

      My E-Folio Reflection: I was very intimidated with this assignment at first because it seemed to be a lot of work on top of everything else. But, once I got started and used the guidelines to complete it, I realized that this is a great tool. The E-Folio has allowed me to reflect on everything I have learned this semester in Social Studies Methods! Once each section started coming together, I was re-learning some important information that I could take with me as a future teacher such as the importance of teaching civics and implementing technology in the classroom. Also, I realized that as a class we all have done so much work and learned more than I thought, it was very rewarding to view how much I have accomplished!  During our last couple of classes, my classmates and I presented our E-Folios. It was a nice experience to hear everyone's final thoughts and to view our progress. I am not the best when it comes to presenting, but I felt confident in my presentation of my E-F

 Week 12 Teaching Economics  Video Reflection:          Using Skype can allow students to learn from individuals all over the world! You can't learn like this from a textbook and students become excited to learn and hear from someone new as well. Teachers are always looking for new ways to engage students in the learning process and as seen in the video, students are excited to ask questions and learn from someone's experience! I would love to have a guest speaker from somewhere in the world  speak to my students one day. 

Week 11  Teaching Civics What qualities make you unique? What qualities make other people unique? I think a quality that makes me unique is my patience. From a young age, I learned to be patient and I grew up fast. I spent a lot of time by myself as my mom spent most of my childhood in and out of the hospital. When my mom came home from the hospital, I learned to take care of her while my dad was at work. My mom is now disabled from dealing with cancer and many surgeries, but I am beyond thankful she is still here with me today. I learned patience through cooking and giving my mom medicines. I carry this through my teaching experiences and whenever I get to work with kids. In my future classroom, I will always remember how I learned to be patient and take that with me when students need me or act inappropriately.  What can we learn from stories different than our own? Obviously, everyone comes from different background and tells different stories that makes their life different and who