About the Practicum Teaching Experience

For my 208 teaching practicum I had the opportunity of co teaching in the Altoona intermediate/middle school working with 4th-8th graders. The practicum accumulated 30 hours of my time in the classroom over the semester. In my role I helped in aiding the teacher, observing teaching, and even co-teaching a lesson. The classroom I was in was led by Mr. Burgraff. 

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A requirement of the practicum was to instruct a 3-5 day lesson alongside a co-partner. we were tasked with writing a lesson, Preparations to teach, teaching, reflecting on the lesson with our cooperating teacher, and Evaluating student work. This experience was very beneficial as prior to to working in this classroom I had not had much experience with teaching at a middle school level. It helped me to develop an understanding for needs and interests of students that age as well as abilities.