Mrs. Baisden’s 2nd Grade

ClassLevel 2 Clinical Experience

CI 447 Final PresentationBy: Alicia Smith

My biggest accomplishment during my Level 2 clinical experience was to be able to manage the class while I was doing my instruction. My class has 28 students in it! I was worried that they wouldn’t pay attention or listen to me when I was teaching. It did take time but by the end of these 8 weeks my students did very well listening to me during my instruction and Mrs. Baisden didn’t have to get involved. I was so proud of them and I started to see how to implement some classroom management in the future.

My biggest surprise was leading the class in their song during the Veteran’s Day Program for the school! While practicing in class Mrs. Baisden would let me lead the students with her help then we presented it as a whole class. It really made me feel like part of the class and was really good practice for when I am a teacher! I was really thankful to Mrs. Baisden for letting me have that opportunity!!

My biggest challenge during my Level 2 experience was to decide which lessons to teach. I wanted to do lessons that would not only teach the students but to also have them doing hands-on with group activities, and having fun while learning. The lessons that I developed the students had fun, were engaged, stayed interested, and most importantly learned from the activity. I really want to make lessons that students will remember and make an impact on them. I was really pleased with the students and their work.

During my student teaching next semester what I will try to do differently is to do more learning games with the students that will help them learn the material. My students loved to do these types of games and it kept them interested in what we were learning.

There was many things that I learned from Mrs. Baisden! Two things that I learned that I will definitely take with me into my own classroom is Mrs. Baisden gives her students Fun Friday Treats. This makes the students want to be good through the week so they don’t lose this treat so it helps in classroom management. I think that students need these few minutes in class at the end of the week to unwind. These treats could be learning based also. The other one is every student has their own dry erase board and marker to practice certain activities. I think that students will like to practice more on the dry erase board instead of paper and it will help to keep the students involved in the activity. The students really love to use their white boards during lessons!!

I have really enjoyed my past eight weeks teaching in Mrs. Baisden’s class! It has been a wonderful learning experience for me. I am going to miss the students and I hope they have a great rest of the year!!