I cannot believe the field experience is already over. It is bittersweet. I will miss my cooperating teacher and the students but I also know that by it being over I am a step closer to student teaching. I enjoyed working with my mentor because he was a realistic teacher. I felt like I was getting and inside look into the daily life of a teacher. I saw how he planned his days and how he moved from one day to the next. My mentor was very flexible and always changing. He never really had a set lesson each day. He made things up as he went but he was always thinking and had appropriate resources to use. He has been teaching for about 15 years so he has a great selection of materials to use. That is one thing that scares me as a prospective teacher. I wonder how I will accumulate materials to use in my classroom. After constructing my lessons plans I have realized the internet is great resource. It is beneficial that other teachers are willing to share their own ideas and lessons. My mentor encouraged me to ask questions.
I asked him a lot of questions about assessment. He often did reading comprehension quizzes which were a type of formative assessment. If students were to read a text outside of class, they would often have a small quiz in class the next day. He explained that this helped with accountability and also determining which students can individually comprehend a text. I liked the small quizzes because they were quick and effective.
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