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Mrs. Miner's Classroom

I love being in Mrs. Miner's fourth grade class these kids are an absolute blast.  Mrs. Miner has been teaching for about 13 years now and she is really fantastic at what she does. I think that my favorite thing about being there is seeing that she uses a few different methods of teaching because it really helps shake things up and helps with the large amount of kids in that class. With a class of just over 30 wild fourth graders its important to help each of them gather and retain all the information she is presenting I think the two main ways she does this is through cognitivism and constructivism.  Depending on what subject is being taught she will switch up the style of her teaching, I've seen some really great examples of cognitivism when she is teaching her science lessons. At the beginning of each lesson she will begin with handing out a packet to each of the children the packets are full of matching assignments and information that correlates with the information on th...

Freedom Elementary here I come!

 Hello there world and welcome to my first ever blog post for my intro to education class at the beautiful Utah Valley University. Today I will be discussing the school in which I have chosen to complete my service hours for this course! I am very excited to observe a real teacher in there natural habitat and learn what it means to be a teacher day to day. I have selected Freedom Elementary School in Highland Utah for my service hours and will be observing and offering my help in a fourth grade class.  Fourth grade is a great time of life and I am very excited to jump back into the place that I went to elementary school and see what has changed because I am sure that a lot has!