Our Last Day of Fieldwork

We ended our last session of fieldwork the other day and I had many mixed emotions about it. Doing fieldwork in Mrs. Benfer's class was a great experience and she was very helpful and very willing to work with us throughout all the sessions we attended. Mrs. Benfer was very helpful in talking us through the sessions to successfully teach our lesson and make the children happy. Mrs. Benfer made me realize how important it is to have a positive attitude towards the students so that they can become enthusiastic about the subject and really enjoy science just as much as she does. I loved how she gave us the opportunity to work hands on with the entire class by teaching the class a lesson rather than just the normal one or two students we are usually assigned. She really opened up my mind to a whole new experience and I loved that I was able to have that experience hands on in the classroom in front of the class. I only have a couple wishes about the experience, and that is that I wish we got more time with the students so we were able to have a little more time to complete our lesson successfully. I know that it was very hard to coordinate us and that every second in the classroom helps, but if we had more time to complete our lesson I think that the students would have enjoyed it more and it would have been a little less stressful situation for the group teaching the class. Also, because it was our first time teaching it was hard to manage our time under pressure because we never really know what that was like or have had to experience that situation. Overall, I think fieldwork was a very successful period and it gets me more and more excited knowing that one day i'll be just like Mrs. Benfer! :)

Here's a picture of me working with the student I was assigned to in class, reading the chapter about chemical reactions.