Learning The Ropes

Today we met with Tiffany Davis the librarian for the Mount's Curriculum Materials Center.  The librarian spoke to us about all the resources that the curriculum library has for us to use.  Within the library they have both fiction and non-fiction books for juvenile(K-5) and young readers (6-12).  The library also has manipulative sets for varies activities and both student and teacher additions of text books.  She also discussed with us two databases to use when researching  articles, Education Research Complete (Ebsco) and ERIC (Ebsco). This was my first time in the curriculum library and having someone to explain the functions and tools of the library was a great feeling.  Know I do not feel as lost when it comes to finding materials.

Link to the Mount Saint Mary College Curriculum Materials Center

We then meet with our cooperating teacher for social studies.  At this point she told us that she only had one student signed up for the program, but was opening it up to younger grades.  She explained to us that we had the use of the computer lab and the iPads in her classroom. She expressed the need to use technology to reach the students in and interactive and engaging way.  With all the technology we have at our fingertips, we need to find ways to work it into our lessons. The cooperating teacher also spoke of her expectations of us as teacher candidates.  She expects us to be professional and prepared, she also asked us to test the technology before presenting to the students.  These are all qualities that all teachers should possess when they are conducting a lesson.