Field Week 4

This was a my final week of Field. Although my partner and I did not have lesson plans to teach to the class we participated in helping our supervising teacher with some lesson plans of his own. For our very last day in the class the students were having colonial days. I was assigned to teach the students how to tie and quilt a blanket that we would be donating to the Children's hospital. During the lesson I noticed one of the students becoming very emotional. He had heard some negative comments from another student about a recent death in his family, which made him emotional and begin to name call. Soon our quilting lesson turned into a discussion about name calling, feelings and appropriate language and social behavior. This was such a great experience fore me, at first I was unsure of how to handle the situation but slowly things came together and I felt that things progressed along and many lessons were learned, including the one I learned.
As far as technology goes I noticed that in one of the classroom they had a smart board. Since I had only ever seen them on TV I thought it would be excited to learn how to use one and see it in action. AWESOME! I think that every classroom should have one, students could learn so quickly and be entertained so easily with the smart board. I know that they are very expensive but if every school in America bought one for every classroom, couldn't they be made in bulk and then the price would go down? I think we should try it because they are AWESOME!