Communicating with your Resource Teachers

As I go to my practicum I am able to learn more about the classroom and how a teacher works with his/her students. I will be discussing more about this second grade class in future blogs but for today I want to discuss that interconnectedness of elementary education. I come to the class when the students are going to art. The is a great opportunity for me to actually see what the students are doing in their resource class.

In art the students continue to learn about classroom topics. For example, the students were learning about china and the china new year in February so the teacher had them make china dolls. That was not the best part of all, before she had them create the doll she gave a mini lesson of about china's culture and how the dolls are an important part of their lives. I felt that this reiterates the lesson that the classroom teacher is teaching while giving them different ways to learn the subject.

When I become a teacher I will definitely communicate with the resource teachers in my school and have them reinforce classroom topics. By showing the students that they can learn about a topic in different ways they are able to make a deeper connection. A teacher should not think that the students are out of their hand for those forty minutes with the resource teacher. Instead the teacher should help students further understand a topic in a different method like in art, music, p.e., library, or technology. If teachers are not doing, they should start, in my opinion!