Leah's Practicum Class Journey

  Leah Beery Journal #9 March 29th - April 4th Agriculture Education  Cody Middle School Hours: Middle School - 2 hours, Lesson Planning - 1 Hour April 2nd Lesson Plan Dairy Lesson and Retrieve Supplies April 4th Teach Dairy Lesson Elaboration:     The first lesson I taught for my practicum in the Cody middle school was a dairy lesson by myself. The content included the three most popular dairy breeds, different milking parlors, how milking works, dairy products, and how to make butter. The lesson was great for the students since most of them don't have much experience with dairy cattle. In the future we get the opportunity to go on a tour of a dairy as well.  Reflection:     In reflection, I had to maintain a good classroom management while teaching a lesson that I was not as familiar with as some by myself. Throughout the lesson I had some technology issues that kept me on my toes, but one student was very helpful. All the students were very eng...

Journal #8 March 24th - 28th Agriculture Education Northwest College Hosting FFA Contests Hours: 10 hours March 27th: Registration Table FFA Sales Contest March 28th Livestock Judging Contest Elaboration:     Being a student studying agriculture education, we got to help with the contest that Northwest college puts on for FFA and 4-H students. On Thursday we got to help register and check students/advisors in when they first arrived. Just simply connecting with the advisors when they were registering was a good experience. That afternoon we helped with the sales contest and this took some classroom management with so many kids taking a testing the taking them to the room to present. The students were respectful and good most of the time in the classroom. I got to take them into the different rooms where they had to give presentations. I talked and connect with some of the students and it was a fun experience.     On Friday we put on the livestock judging that we...

  Leah Beery Journal #7 March 17th - 21st Agriculture Education Cody High School Mr. Troy Wiant Hours: 4 hours March 21st -  Help with livestock judging reasons  Observe Classroom Elaboration:      Morgan and I went into the classroom together all day on Friday March 21st. Throughout this day in the classroom Morgan and I helped students with livestock judging and reasons most of the day. The students have some FFA contests coming up, so we helped them prepare for those contests. Morgan and I would pick the livestock classes the students would judge then prepare reasons for the class. They would present to us and we would critique to help them improve. The students were eager to learn and improve in livestock judging.  Reflection:     As I reflected last week I have started to really enjoy one-and-one work with students and being able to help them improve their abilities like livestock judging. S tudents gave me sets of reasons, then I gave t...

Leah Beery Journal #6 March 3rd - 7th Agriculture Education Cody High School Mr. Troy Wiant Hours: 4 hours March 4th Grade Papers Observe Classes March 6th Observe Classes Help with livestock judging reasons practice Elaboration:     As I went into the high school two different times this week it felt like short visits but it was a total of four hours. I got to help Mr. Wiant to grade papers, but also worked with some students on one-on-one work through both visits. These included helping with agriculture math problems with the students and livestock judging reasons. I also got to observe Mr. Wiant having good relations with his students and showing that he cared about his students. Many different students come into the classroom not during their periods with him to talk and ask him questions. Mr. Wiant also has such good relations with students to have good behaviors too, he makes sure they are on task and need to get their work done with positivity. Reflection:    ...

  Leah Beery Journal #5 February 24th - 28th Project-Based Learning Glenn Livingston Elementary School Millie Stamness and Dawn Peterson Hours: Elementary School - 3 hours February 25th  Project Based Learning Gummy Bear Waves in Science Protein Balls in Math Elaboration:      My practicum hours this week consisting in helping in an elementary school in Cody. I went into the Livingston elementary school to help with project based learning in the fourth grade classrooms when the governor was visiting. I got the opportunity to help in two classrooms the science and math classes during the fourth grade rotations.        In the science lesson the students were learning about all kinds of waves. The activity was testing the difference in energy with different factors. It consisted of putting gummy bears on both ends of a bbq skewers then had tape upside on the table. The students then had to measure distances between the skewer...

Leah Beery Journal #4 February 17th - 21st Agriculture Education  Cody High School and Middle School Mr. Troy Wiant Hours: High School - 4 hours, Middle School - 2 hours, Lesson Planning - 1 Hour February 19th Middle school lesson plan February 21st Observe students welding Interact with students in parliamentary procedure Observe students being engaged on a agriculture mathematics lesson Teach lesson on livestock terminology and anatomy Elaboration:     Teaching the lesson on livestock terminology and anatomy to the middle school this week  was fun and showed student involvement. We taught the slide show to the student about livestock terminology between young, mature, and casturated species. We let them guess to see if they knew before they told them the right answer. Some of the students already knew a lot of terms, but we still elaborately told the students the differences in the terms. After we finished the lesson we then had a fun Quizz they took on their own. ...