Description: This field experience was done with my co-teacher. She and I decided to post a video on our blog showing parents the strategy we use at school to help teach our students how to count mixed change. We discussed what was important to mention during the video and how we would show the parents. Then I videoed as she taught the lesson. I posted the video in School Tube and then embedded the code into our blog for parents to view at home.
Standards: TF-V.C and D. (Productivity and Professional Practice)
Semester: Spring 2011
Hours: 1 hr.
Population: First Grade Co-Teacher and Class Parents
Reflection: My co-teacher and I had ordered Flip recorders to use in class. We decided that we would use them first to video a demonstration of a strategy we were using at school to help teach parents how we were teaching the kids at school to count mixed change. Upon completion and post of this video, we were thrilled with the results. The video is short so that it doesn't become a burden to watch. The strategy seems clear based on the visuals and description. We shared it with class parents via our blog. We also shared it with the principal and assistant principal. Our assistant principal happened to be at a conference where she shared our video as a demonstration on how some of her teachers were using technology. The principal shared our video with the other teachers at school. This has good and bad repercussions. Some of the teachers on our team were upset with us because they viewed it as though we were showing off and had not told them that we were planning to do this. We had no intentions of that at all. We simply had an idea and went with it immediately. We've talked about these kind of situations in grad classes on several occasions.
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