Reflection On Field Experience

Field experience has been a great source for me to be able to understand the teachers’ role and responsibilities better. As I continue to shadow my mentor teacher Mr. Estrada while he was teaching his 4th grade class, I happened to come across several issues that a teacher typically might face during his/ her teaching career. It was one of those days again where I started my day by going to Sarah King Elementary School for field observation. Mr. Estrada began his class by greeting the students as usual and reminding them about the class rules and regulations in order for the class to run smoothly and for good behavior to last throughout the entire day. Reminding the students about the class rules and regulation seemed to work in the first few
minutes of the class until one of the students started to get bored in class and decided to disturb his peers as well. Typically Mr. Estrada lets the students sit in a group of four in order for them to perform the task together as a group, but little after this issue was brought to Mr. Estrada’s attention, he decided to bring the student who created a scene to sit in the front by himself. Not only was he asked to sit in the front but also the student was shown the “ PRIDE” poster to remind him about the class behavior expectations. This action of Mr. Estrada did calm the situation little bit but he still wasn’t satisfied as the student talked about the class being boring. Next week I happened to see Mr. Estrada bring a change in lesson plan, and this time instead of just giving lecture, he did a small math activity online, which the students happened to enjoy and took interest in.