Hi Everyone,
My name is Meg Edwards and after this summer I will be just about finished at Bank Street, save my IMP. I am in the Childhood Special and General program and am currently an associate teacher in a second grade classroom at an all girls independent school on the upper east side. Next year I will be in the same school, but will be an associate in first grade. This year has been the first that I have taught in a regular classroom. My experience prior to this year has been at a Saturday morning/summer tutoring program where I volunteered for two years. I have really enjoyed my time so far in the classroom and have especially liked my opportunity to teach social studies! The girls in my class responded so positively to the lessons that we taught this year and were so excited to make connections between the units that we did on mapping and NYC to other subjects and their everyday lives. It was such a fun class to teach!
I look forward to learning more about how to integrate social studies into a curriculum in this class, both from our readings and projects, but also from all of you.
Meg
Hi Meg,
ReplyDeleteFirst and second is such a wonderful age group. The fact that you have been in second grade will be helpful to you next year, because it will inform your sense of how best to prepare students for the knowledge and skills they need in first. I've been in very creative first grade classrooms where the teachers disregarded the importance of teaching literacy skills so the children were totally unprepared for second grade reading. They came in barely having sound letter correspondence.
Take some time to read and respond to some of the people on this blog. Many have jobs with similar age groups to you. Groups will have to be set by the middle of our first week. I would much prefer you coming to me saying whom you want to work with, than my having to assign teams.
Let me know,
KK