Field Experience Class
For my field experience class, my professor is a retired Duluth school district principal. He’s an adjunct professor for this semester, so he’s been out in the field more than he has been in the college classroom. Which kind of has an advantage! We have not been using a textbook, but have had plently of discussions, which makes me feel a lot more prepared for real world situations. In class today, we did “Knee to Knee” which is where we do scenario situation discussions. We sit with one person across from us and then another person sits next to us. We draw different scenarios out of a bag, then figure out what to do. One acts as a teacher, one as a student, and another acts as a mediator/perspective of the parent. Each situation was really unique but totally realistic, but I hadn’t thought before what I would do with them. My professor brings a lot of his real world experience into the class and I feel like I have been learning more this was, it’s almost like a Constructivist setting.
Tags: Elementary Education, Field experience, field placement, real world application
