Exploring as A Future Educator

 Co-Lab Reflection Completing the co-lab assessment each week was not hard. But, in my opinion, I don't feel comfortable rating my group members contributions especially since we are not in person and I focus on my own work. Also, if I wanted to slide the bar to give one of my group members a ratings, the program would move the other bars as well which made it very difficult to complete.  Overall, I enjoyed working with my fieldwork group members this semester!

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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