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__**First week of Field Placement - what you need to accomplish in your first classroom visit: **__

1. You will write your first observation report using the following QuickChecks from Chapter 5 in our textbook to describe the following in class - what you see your teacher doing at this point in semester. Remember they are only in the 5th week of school and two weeks have been short weeks!

Describe what you see the teacher and students doing in relation to: This is NOT a quality-check but to get to know class routines and student ability levels in group work and independent work
 * Cooperative learning
 * Questioning strategies
 * Wait time/ think time strategies
 * Active listening strategies Demonstration

2. You need to schedule a meeting with your cooperating teacher to discuss the use of FOSS Science Kits as well as planning for upcoming gardening activities - please try to meet asap! It will help increase your comfortable level to develop a relationship with your cooperating teacher and begin to plan together.

3. Share with your cooperating teacher your contact information and find out the best ways to communicate with them during the week.

4. Commit to sharing your plans for your planting activities - you need to decide with your cooperating teacher how you want to handle the planting day. You will plant with small groups of students while your cooperating teacher works with the rest of the class.
 * How will you introduce the garden and growing food that they will eat in class?
 * What are rules for planting that need to be established?
 * What directions will you give?
 * What are good activities for the rest of the students to do? Each small group will probably only take approximately 10 minutes to plant - each child will probably only plant 1 or 2 plants because of the size of beds and because classrooms are sharing beds.
 * We will review the Planting Schedule in class but you will be sharing a garden bed with 1 or more classes so you need to plan on only planting "your" part of the garden![[file:Educ 326 Planting Field Experience.doc]]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__**Assignment for your second observation**__ - bring your cooperating teacher a draft of a letter introducing yourself to the parents of "your" students and provide a brief introduction to the Food for Learning Project (I'll help with that section but you write a draft of your self introduction!). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">We will work on in class on Wednesday, Sept 29!

__**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">For Future Observations, you will complete: **__ <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">