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Educational Experience

Bridgewater College

I have completed over 100 hours of documented field experience starting in my Sophomore year

Sophomore, spring: 10 hours of observing, completed at John Wayland Elementary Junior, fall: 30 hours of one on one reading instruction, completed at Mountain View Elementary Junior, fall: 20 hours of classroom management, completed at John Wayland Elementary Senior, fall: 15 hours prepracticum experience, completed at Spotswood Elementary Senior, Inter-term: 3 week full day teaching at Elton Elementary Senior, spring: 15 week practicum at Spottswood Elementary

Contact Information: Primary Address: 12 Country lane, Newark, Delaware, 19702 College Address: 402 East College St., Bridgewater, Virginia, 22812 Home: (302) 733-7989 Cell: (302) 220-3650

JACK BARCHOCK
BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE
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GRADUATE MAY 2014

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Mr. Barchocks Classroom If someone would come in and observe my classroom they would see excited students, who are all working together collaboratively to complete tasks. I believe in cooperative learning, because students understand the material better if they are working together. As Bandura states, As students talk through material, they arrive at a deeper understanding of it (Bandura, 2000). This form of understanding cannot be reached through the teacher, rather, the students collaboratively working together. My classroom will have beads hanging up at the front of the door, so each student will have to cross-over into my classroom, which is a judgment free zone. Any problems that students are having outside the classroom do not exist in the classroom, because they are free to be themselves. Each student will know each-others name, and we will function as a community, where we are free to be ourselves. As a community, we will work together, as a team, to come up with the rules of the classroom. The rules will be created by both the teacher and students, so when a disciplinary act does arise, the classroom rules will be used in governing all students. I plan on having a diverse group of students, and we will know about each-others culture. The classroom will be arranged in such a way, that the teacher will be able to see every student, and every student will be able to see the teacher. All the desks, will be in groups, because on certain assignments the students will work together to complete a task.

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
Every aspect of my teaching philosophy, positive or negative, is built on a hierarchy that starts with the school at the top, shadowed by the family, followed by the teachers, and then trailed by the students. The school needs to have a positive school climate, which includes outside, as well as, inside the school. The principle and the administrators need to be on the same page, so if any disciplinary action need to be handled the teachers know that they can rely on the school. The family (care giver) needs to have a positive influence on their child, so the child understands that school is a positive place where they will be excited to come home and tell their family what they learned. The teacher needs to be a role model for their students, and be able to teach everyone, not just the top tier students, but the students who seem to be struggling. The students just need to come to school and be themselves, because if all the factors are in play, there is no reason why the students cannot be shining lights. My philosophy of teaching can be categorized as an Existentialist. I believe that the individual choices what path they want to take, and it is the job of the teacher to guide the students down their own right path.

Extra-Curricular I was a group leader for elementary students, after the students listened to an author, the elementary students were divided up into small groups where they shared their writing and we talked about literacy and writing. This was done administered by the Shenandoah Reading Council. I also worked a math night at Smithland Elementary, where students were able to play educational games on the Ipad.

I believe that every student has a light-bulb that goes off in their head, when they finally understand the purpose of school, and the drive they need. However, it is our job as educators to find that light for our students, no matter, how dim it can be, because the true meaning of teaching is to have a classroom full of bright lights.