Practicum observations

I was in Heber Valley Elementary School in Mrs. Hayter’s 1st Grade class. Mrs. Hayter was a wonderful mentor teacher who used technology throughout each day to teach her 1st graders. Every student, in their center groups, would get a chance to be on the computers for 13 minutes using Razz Kids, an online virtual reading program that tracks the students’ progress and tests them after reading books. Mrs. Hayter also would use her document camera to project on the whiteboard from her laptop the math website the school uses to teach math. She would also use the document camera to also project on the whiteboard different worksheets the students would be working on together as a class, or test material she would step each student through. The school had given Mrs. Hayter, along with all the other teachers, a touch pad to record students’ progress with different subjects; she didn’t know how to use it, my partner taught her so she could start using that technology to help benefit her and her classroom. I believe Mrs. Hayter adequately used technology in her classroom to effectively teach her first graders.