As mentioned in my last blog, I'm working with a 6th grade class for my field experience. I have to admit that 6th grade is not my preferred grade that I want to teach once I graduate. However, I'm finding this to be a good experience and I enjoy working with my cooperation teacher and helping her in her classroom. She's been very good to give my partner and I plenty of experience working with the students and small experiences teaching and helping in a variety of subjects.
Right now the students are in the final touches of preparing reports on a different county that they have each researched for their "World Fair" that will be on Tuesday of next week. For their report, they have been taught how to type papers that include a table of content, bibliography and cover page.
One challenge with this project is that the students don't have time to complete their whole assignment during computer lab time. Since the schools use "Apple Works" for their word processing program and most students don't have that program at home, Tara and I have had to help those students e-mail their saved work from the school computers to their home computers in a format that they will be able to use. We worked with the students who needed this assistance one-on-one and helped them either save it to a flash drive, create an e-mail account if they didn't have one or know their parent's e-mail address, or sent it to a parents e-mail address.
It was interesting to see the vast differences in these 6th graders with their experience and abilities to use the Internet and e-mail. It was also interesting to see each of their typing abilities and what they understood about formatting their reports. It's obvious which student have computer time at home by watching their abilities in the classroom.
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