For my third and final field blog I traveled to Gearity Elementary School. I was extremely happy to go to this school because my intended major is Early Childhood Education and I figured this would be one of my final chances to see if I wanted to stick with this major or not. My question going to this school was if at the end of it would I want to still teach early childhood or would I want to change it to a different grade level? The answer to that question is there is not a chance I want to teach another grade level. I found out from going to Gearity that early childhood education is my passion and it is the career I hope to work for my life.
There were many great things that I experienced in the classroom to which I was assigned. I was placed in a preschool classroom. Originally, I planned to teach second or third grade so this was going to be a little different from what I had seen from my observation hours at Wickliffe Elementary School, and indeed it was. The class had one main teacher and also, had one aide. The children in the classroom when my classmates and I walked in were going over the weather for the day and also, they were learning the alphabet. After doing those things the class had a chance to work on iPads, and just do many other fun creative things to learn about zoo animals because they were taking a field trip to the zoo in December. They did this for about an hour so I took it upon myself to join the children and see what they were doing. The children seemed very happy to have my classmates and I there as they invited us to play with them and participate in their activities. I decided to sit down with a group of about four boys to see what they were doing. For most of the hour the continuously asked me to draw pictures of the different zoo animals, so I did. The children and I also completed a matching game where you had to connect the zoo animal with it's name. For example, if the word was 'Frog' you had to find the picture of a frog and connect the two pieces together. The students as well as the teachers really made me feel welcome and I couldn't have enjoyed being there much more, it was fantastic.
In conclusion, after my visit to the school I definitely hope to find a career in Early Childhood Education after I graduate from John Carroll. I enjoyed every second at Gearity Elementary School and was very honored and pleased to go there. I would love to go back there one day for another visit because of how much I enjoyed it. You can tell that the teachers, and faculty of this school were all passionate about their jobs and really enjoyed working at the school. Gearity was a great school and it was a great experience to visit the school and sit in on a class.
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