My First Week as an Intern

I am interning at Snow Heights Elementary School with my mentor Linsy Garner in her Kindergarten classroom during English. I am looking forward to a new school year with Mrs. Garner and a class full of new students that I can help throughout the year. This first week as in intern I helped the long term substitute around the classroom and create folders for the class.

The Importance of Rules

Rules are always important for learning because it provides a system for the students to follow so they don't get distracted or tempted to do things they aren't supposed to do. Rules keep classrooms running smoothly because it's a guideline for the students to follow, without rules a classroom would be chaotic and full of distractions and problems that a teacher wouldn't be able to handle alone. The consequences will be on color change scale. Green will be no consequences, yellow will be a note home to the parents, orange will be a phone call to the parents, and red goes to the principles office.

My Plan of Attack

Last year I really enjoyed competing in the event "Impromptu Teaching" because it was something that challenged me and my partner throughout the entire year and we did fairly well considering it was our first year competing and we advanced all the way to Nationals. This upcoming year I plan on competing in the event "Impromptu Lesson Planning" with Tiana Whitmore similar to our event last year. I also wish to participate in the Portfolio Contest since I already have a portfolio and will just need to update it. I believe that I will be successful with these because I already have experience with these two things so it won't be too difficult to prepare for nor will it be stressful.