Hi everyone! My name is Anna Malone I'm an elementary education major here at
West Liberty University and today I'm going to show you what it's like to be
in this program
So this morning we're going to be with Professor Ken Sexton with our block
class we're going to be learning about instructional design so let's check it
out! There is a time when it's a good idea that your students learn to work with other students...
The education program here is the oldest in this state and they really are
wonderful we do lots of projects and different
things in class that really are applicable to real life and there's a
lot of valuable experiences that we gain through the teachers. We are looking through
children's books to try to find questions that reach different depths of
knowledge. It is it's true it's really wonderful the teachers here are quality
and they really do care and that's what I was looking for in a University is a
place where people cared about you and actually wanted to help you grow and
learn and get that degree. The level is application so things like show, make,
illustrate demonstrate, apply...Now we're in my math and science methods course with
Mrs. Swartz... Now we're going to start our technology project today so if you have a device...
Our block semester is a mixture of being in class and being out in the field
it's that baby step towards student teaching which happens the next semester
so what we do is we just meet two days a week in class for four hours and then
we're out in the field the rest of the time so we might have different
assignments for classes where we all go as a group and work on something like
teaching math together but then we also have to do that do the observation hours
independently of that.
My friends and I like to eat lunch in the Union every day
Today I'm at West Liberty Elementary School as part of my observation hours
I'll be in the kindergarten classroom today so let's check it out.
We're gonna
play a game to make sure that the kindergarten students know their letters
So we have to do 90 hours of observation for our block semester as part of our
state requirement to get our license so we've been at West Liberty Elementary
which is great it's right on top of the hill I've bounced around from kindergarten
to first grade fifth grade and it's just a great to get involved as much as we
can and help out teachers wherever that we can really show up. So I'm here in the
Center for Arts and Education I'm gonna go work on a group project
So the Center for arts and education is a makerspace here on campus they have
all kinds of materials and resources that students can use for education
majors it is invaluable there are so many things that I might
have to purchase but here they are free for me to use and that's a wonderful
gift but other majors can come too so it's not just education majors it is
just a space for everybody to get creative and I love that. I'm vice
president of the Student Government Association we're getting ready for our
weekly meeting.... I met with Kate yesterday and we're pretty good on the bonfire
it'll be... So I'm on the Executive Board of student government as student body
vice president and for me that's a great way to connect with all of the students
here and also be the catalyst for change on campus so our goal is to just make
this year the best that it can be and then grow and build on that in the years
to come.
I hope this gave me a good idea what it
is to be an elementary education major here at West Liberty University.
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