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The End of My Journey

  As this semester finally comes to a close, I can now say that I feel extremely relieved. This semester challenged me beyond my limits with the workload and amount of time I have invested. However, I have learned so much about myself and  my journey toward becoming a future teacher! The fieldwork for this class provided me so much useful information that I will remember for when I have my own classroom one day. I am very thankful that my group and I were able to teach all 3 lessons: a direct, inquiry and cooperative. The 4th grade students were amazing as well and they taught me a lot about what it takes to be a teacher: PATIENCE! It was an amazing and valuable learning experience that I will forever cherish.  This semester has also taught me so much about what Social Studies is and how to teach it. Before this class, I had little to no clue what the methods to teach Social Studies were. Now, I can say that I am confident in my abilities to teach Social Studies as I have a plethora of
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Making History Come Alive

Engage: I have never seen the painting pictured above before now. Although I do not how whose paintings these are and the history of them, I can guess that they represent important people throughout history. I believe that the first painting is a man standing in a court room standing up for something he believes in while the people around him stare in awe. I think that the second one is some sort of religious representation as the lady with white hair is holding her hands together in a praying position with her eyes closed and the lady next to her is holding a rosary. The third picture looks like a family that is about to eat dinner while the mother/cook serves the food on the table. The last painting I believe is a mother and father tucking their child into bed. I am sure that all of these paintings have some sort of important historical significance and I would love to learn more about them. Explore: Making History Alive Using technology in the classroom can make lessons more interes
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Teaching Economics

Engage: Skype in the classroom creates global citizens Skype is a great source of technology for students to use in the classroom. Skype essentially allows you to "travel" the world all at the click of a button. For example, someone in New York can talk to someone all the way on the other side of the world with this technology. It allows for live learning that a textbook or newspaper article cannot offer. I believe that this specific form of technology would be very useful for teaching economics in a Social Studies classroom. This is because in class the teacher could have a guest speaker come to class via Skype. They could invite expert speakers who are knowledgable on economics from anywhere in the world. This would be extremely useful for students because they would be able to learn from a different viewpoint and they would be engaged as well as excited. The technology of Skype also allows students to make connections with those outside of their own natural comfort zone, w
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The Importance of Multicultural Education

Engage: What qualities make you unique? What qualities make other people unique? I have many different qualities that make me unique and so does everyone else in the world! However, the ones that make me unique include my personality, my experiences, my goals, my passions, my attitude and my perspectives. The qualities that make other people unique include all of the same things that make me unique, just in a different way. Being unique is something extremely important in life. If we were all the same everything would be boring and repetitive. Being unique means being unlike anyone else, and in order to develop the qualities of being unique we must start by being our authentic selves. It also helps to broaden your horizons by trying out new and interesting things. Some new and interesting things to try out could include becoming a painter, creating a blog, keeping a sketchbook or playing an instrument. These are just some ideas and there are a lot more that can lead to finding your own
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Why is Russia invading Ukraine anyway?

War and Peace  Why is Russia invading Ukraine? On February 24th, 2022, Russian troops launched an attack on Ukraine that started with explosions before dawn in the capital Kyiv and other cities. According to Ukraine's foreign ministry, Russia's intent was to destroy the entire state of Ukraine. At least 40 people had been killed in what is being called a "full-scale war." Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, warned other countries that if they tried to interfere it would lead to consequences that we have never seen before. As of now, Ukrainian leaders are mobilizing 36,000 reservists as it prepares for a full invasion.  Why exactly is Russia invading Ukraine?   There are many reasons for the invasion according to different sources. According to Putin, the main goal of the attack is to defend the Russian-speakers of Ukraine, especially those who live in the two self-declared republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, which left Ukrainian control in 2014. Now, NATO (North At
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Brrr...Icebreaker Time!

 Fieldwork Group 1: The Globetrotters   Miss Maria, Miss Danielle, Miss Mary, Miss Kayla, & Miss Allison It's the beginning of fieldwork and I can't wait! Today, all 5 groups were able to introduce ourselves and play unique icebreaker games with the 4th grade students to get to know them better. After all, it is extremely important to get to know your students before teaching them! All of the students seemed to have a fun time playing each group's game and it was great to interact with them for the very first time.  For my group, we created a game where a wheel was spun with each 4th grader's name on it. Whichever name it landed on was the one who answered the question at that time. After a name was chosen, a question was chosen after. Some of the questions that were asked were: - Sweet or Salty? - Do you have any siblings? - Dogs or Cats? My group did not have enough time to let every student answer a question due to timing, which made some students upset, but the
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A Trip Around the World

World Geography Treasure Hunt   For this assignment I was responsible for using the World Atlas to search the answers to questions regarding our world. Some of the questions included: 1. What is the current population? (7.9 billion) 2. What is the largest and smallest country? (Russia & Vatican City) 4. What is the oldest and youngest country? (Iran & South Sudan) After completing the questions about our world, I was surprised at how little information I knew! I knew very few answers to the questions that were asked. Therefore, I made a lot of knew discoveries. One of the discoveries that I found to be most surprising was for question #10: What is the most popular native language? The answer is Chinese and there are 1.3 billion speakers! This answer blew me away. At first, I guessed English, but English is not even #2. It is #3 with a whopping 370 million speakers. After I answered all the questions about our world, I had to answer some questions about my world. Some of these q
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