EDU 543 Teacher Aiding /Fieldwork Activities

List and provide a brief explanation/description of your Teacher Aiding types of activities that you may have engaged in during your
fieldwork experience for this course. Activities that provide support for the Field Supervisor Teacher as well as those activities dealing
directly with students should be included.

Examples:
-Teach all/part of a lesson prepared/supervised by Field Supervisor
-Prepare materials for a lesson taught by Field Supervisor
-Work with a small group on developing particular skills

Teacher Aiding Grade level Description of Activity

Activity Type Teacher/School

Aide Kindergarten Help teacher pass out materials for art project

Aide kinder Go around and place glue for the googly eyes on each of the students heart bears face

Aide Kinder Direct students to place the art project on the back table so the heart bear could dry

Aide Kinder Assist teacher to help students pass out valentines out to all their friends

Aide Kinder Go over letter sounds on the carpet with students who are waiting their turn

Getting to know your students

First: Read edTPA task 1 and 2 and look for ways to know your students.

Next Practice: Use the sample below to practice gathering information.

Getting to know your students: What questions can you ask to get the information in this case study? Turn each statement into a question and
provide a source (person) you could ask to get this information.
Chan is a 10-year-old fourth-grade English learner. He is from Cambodia and lives with a single mother, two younger brothers, and a baby sister. His
mother works long hours and is often not home when he returns from school. His extended family in the United States includes one aunt and two grown
cousins and his grandparents. Chan’s family immigrated to the United States two years ago. His written Cambodian language is mostly forgotten, but he
is to communicate with his family orally.
Chan reads English two years below grade level. He has difficulty using correct grammar when writing or speaking. Chan is a happy and social boy who
enjoys friends. He is well liked and works well in small groups. He is seldom or never absent from school. The CELDT results indicate an overall score
in the beginner to early intermediate range, and he has been identified as an English learner.

Question 1: How old is Chan? Who would you ask? Or what source would you check?
2. What grade is Chan in? The teacher or school secretary
3 Who helps him read at home and do homework?
4 Who takes care of him when Mom is not home?
5 How well did Chan read and do in school in Cambodia?
6 Does he communicate in his foreign language with family or English?
7 He works well in small groups, but is it the best for him?
8 Does the family see education as important and value it?
9 What are resources that Chan can receive? Tutoring?
10 What strategies can the teacher use so that Chan excels better in
grammar?
Next: Do the following.
Use this method and describe a student you have observed during your fieldwork observation time. Use the questions you generated above and
now describe a student in your observation class.
Describe ELD student (or other student with a different learning challenge).
Question 1: How old is __Johnny?
2. What grade is Johnny in?
3 Who helps Johnny read and do his homework at home?
4 Who takes care of him at home?
5 How well did Johnny read before?
6 Does he communicate in Spanish or English with his family?
7 Does he work well in small groups?
8 Does the family see the importance of education and value it?
9 What are the resources that Johnny can receive?
10 What strategies can the teacher use so Johnny can excel in his
grammar?
Finally: Help yourself become proficient at this task.
Download several Interest Surveys: Google interest surveys for elementary students and get ideas. Arts and PE are great
areas of the curriculum to learn more about the interests and attitudes of your students and helps you plan other content area
lessons.
The mom or Chan himself or whoever picks up Chan
Mom or Chan
Assessments or Test scores in Foreign language
Observation or take home questionnaire
Observation and informal assessments
Speaking to Mom, reading on Cambodian culture and their views
on education
The school resource specialist or the district, local library
Textbooks, teacher manuals, ELL handbooks, TED talks, research
Who would you ask? Or what source would you check?
Kindergarten
No one, Mom used to but she has stopped and grandparents don’t
speak English
Mom and grandparents, Dad lives with another family
He never practiced till he came to school at Foothill
He speaks in Spanish with his grandparents and mom
Yes, he works well with other students but he does better with one
on one.
They did at first, but then Mom has stopped being attentive to
their homework or practicing reading at home
Johnny is receiving bilingual aide assistance as well as outside
time with the resource teacher
The teacher is currently always keeping Johnny on task when
there is whole group instruction by saying “you ready Johnny”
“Johnny how you doing?” Also, when there is center time she sits
with him and works with him. Focusing on the skills that he has
yet to master and should be at.
Develop you own interest survey geared for the content areas of VAPA and PE. Include your survey with this
section of the fieldwork:
Question Answer:
What is your favorite warm-up for PE?
What is your least favorite?
What is your favorite activity to play in PE?
What do you wish you could be better at?
Do you have a suggestion for an activity you would
like to play, but we haven’t yet in PE?