Field Placement Research Paper

The concept of whether or not I want to become a teacher also directly leads to my next possible sign of conceptual change. Like I said before, my eyes have been opened to many aspects of education that I was ignorant to before. My field placement has definitely been the main source of these eye-opening experiences as the semester has continued. Before I went into field placement, my concept of children was that they were all the same. My concept was that children came to school to learn and be respectful to the adults that were trying to help them become successful in their lives. Obviously I understood not all students feel the exact way about school, but not to the level I saw as I went out into schools. As I reflect, this concept I had about children is very similar to one of the assumptions Kelley listed off in his article. The assumption I related would be, “we assume that the child goes to school to acquire knowledge” (Kelley, 1947, p. 17). During many times, I did not get this impression from the students I observed at Scott High School, my field placement. The school was unlike anything I have ever seen in my entire life as a student. Scott High School is a
Some will not always be professional every second throughout the day. Do not get me wrong, there were other circumstances where my supervising teacher was very professional and did things the right way. There were just times where she did things in untraditional ways from what I am accustomed to. My end concept is now that I know it is difficult to be fully professional every second of the day. A teacher will have good and bad days. I will just need to make sure I have treat my students with respect at all times because that is what I would expect from them. People are not perfect and they are capable of making mistakes, even