Field Experiences

For this class, I was at Leesville Middle School with a seventh grade language arts teacher. I enjoyed my time with her. She is a very good teacher. She is engaging and the students know that she cares about them and their work. She won't accept anything less than their best. She relates thinks back to the students to make them see things in a new light. She might be tough on them, but it only makes her students work harder. I've seen so many concepts we've covered in class during my time. The writing process, literature circles, left-handed writers, figurative language, and story elements are just a few of the numerous things that I've been able to relate from class here to class there. One of my favorite visits was when the students analyzed several different poems. I was fortunate enough to hear prosody in action and it was awesome!! I really don't think the essence of the poem would have come across if another student had read it. In this visit, I was able to see students analyze different things that together created a poem. The insights that they shared were brilliant. My least favorite visit would have to be the one when my teacher told me that she kept forgetting about my coming, until I showed up. I know she's busy but that still made me feel a little uncomfortable and kind of un-welcomed. I didn't expect to enjoy a language arts class as much as I did. My classes weren't nearly as exciting and enjoyable as the ones I observed. Perhaps if my teachers were as effective as Mrs. Rigsbee, I'd have a completely different attitude towards language arts and trust me, it'd be for the better!!