UE Practicum Fall 2007!

OAK HILL MIDDLE SCHOOLLauren A. Van HookMrs. Nadine Parker

8th grade English, Period 1

Students

• # of students

• 2 African American

• 3 Hispanic

• Majority Caucasian

• Dyslexic,

ADD/ADHD

Professional Growth

• Use my “teacher

voice”

• Dress

• Follow rules myself

• Don’t be “too nice”

My Practicum Experience

• Discipline-Lay

down the law

• Management-

Constant activity

• Be passionate

enough to care

More Experience

• Quality of Info.

• Student Individuals

• Friends in Workplace

• Donuts, etc.

Metaphor For Teaching•      “I've come to the frightening conclusion

that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.”

• ~Haim Ginott

The End…

Rock ON!