Classroom Assessment

Today I am going to assess the connections I am making between my service learning placement and my course work. As I look back over my blog posts and reflect on my learning I can see how I have made connections between the course topics and my service learning experiences. I have experienced engaged learning in my course of instruction by learning new technology, and I have seen it at my service learning placement when the teacher engages her students by using technology also. Another example would be the standards and accountability that the teacher has to follow. I am taught through this course about the standards and accountability teachers must follow, and then I see her teaching them in my placement. I find it very interesting how much I am learning, now that I am assessing my own learning from this class and making connections. By learning from this course and then seeing the teacher teach, I understand what I am learning and I see things differently while I observe. 

The process of blogging helps me think and notice things in my service learning placement because I look at teaching through a new perspective. Writing about what I am learning helps me understand and remember what I am observing. I love blogging about what I am learning, because I can look back at what I wrote, it's like a journal of my experiences and what I have learned. I see what I have learned from my first blog post to my last and see how I have grown through observing and helping my service learning teacher. I have learned about the diversity of the students, how each child is different, and how students learn in different ways. I have also learned how important it is to engage the students. These are things I did not know when I posted my first blog post. I find it important to blog what I am learning, so I will continue to blog as I proceed through my classes. Blogging is a great tool, it helps me think about what I am learning and observing.