| During my student teaching at Orchard Elementary
School I was lucky to be a part of an active team of 5 people. (PC 4a)
The team consisted of three classroom teachers and two student teachers
(myself being one of them). We worked collectively with two kindergartens
and one first grade. During my time on the team I participated in
two team meetings to help plan different units. |
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During the two meetings that I participated in we sat down and
discussed the important parts of each unit. Then we divided the unit
up for theme time. In the team each teacher teaches one lesson three
times during our theme time. During this time the classes are mixed
up and each teacher has a mix of all three classrooms. This allows
each child to interact with more than just his class each day. Each
lesson topic has been preselected at the meeting. The units I helped
to work on was the Ocean Unit and the Rainforest Unit
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| Other parts of the team consisted of sharing ideas and data about
different topics, as well as sharing materials. (PC 4a) Working on
a team was a wonderful experience and I hope to work on a team in some
way in my future classroom. It gives you someone to talk to who really
knows what is going on with the children and it allows a more open environment
for the teachers to learn and share information as well. (PC 4e) |
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