Archive for Sarah Larson
Question: Rewards for individual students, effective or ineffective?
Since last Thursday was our last day in kindergarten practicum, we had a debriefing on our experiences today in class. One topic that came up was positive reinforcement in the classroom. A group mentioned that a teacher would reward students for good behavior by giving out stickers. Is giving rewards for good behavior effective or [...]
MCSS: iPad Resources
On Monday we were given opportunity to to attend the Minnesota Council for the Social Studies conference in Saint Cloud, MN. At this conference I attended a session about working with iPads in social studies. Not only eould these different apps be usefull in social students, but they could be used with any subject. The [...]
Teacher Resource: IXL Math
This week in class we have been searching for resources online for our kindergarten practicum experiences. I have come across an amazing website that will help students learn math skills through visual, interactive activities. This website has hundreds of math skills from Prekindergarten to Geometry. I think this is a great way that teachers can [...]
Hola familia y amigos!
I wanted to blog and say that this has been the most amazing experience of my life. There have been some hard times but also some great times. Yesterday we had to say bye to the students which was very hard to do. There were definitely tears falling down some faces. But who knows, maybe [...]