This blog is a helpful "portfolio" about the projects and activities I have done for both EDEL 1010 and EDEL 2200 this semester. I have learned a lot about the technology used by teachers today in both classes. The best part has been seeing some of these things actually used in the Service Learning locations. The worst part has been not having enough time in Service Learning! I did ten hours in a special education classroom first and then have just finished 10 hours in a regular first grade classroom. Next week I am going to spend an afternoon in a regular fourth grade classroom so I get a little wider perspective. The ten hours in regular education wasn't enough: if I was doing it over again I would not "count" my special ed hours (required for EDSP 3400) as part of my regular ed time because I feel like I didn't get enough time in regular classrooms. Doing the special ed hours first prevented me from learning about regular ed classrooms in the same time frame as we progressed through the lessons. This made the required blog entries more difficult.
I did gain a lot of broad understanding of teaching in the 21st century and am anxious to learn more in the professional portion of the program.
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