Hello and welcome to my blog, my name is Sydney! I hope that you explore my posts as they range from my resume to my educational philosophy and everything in-between.
I am currently in my fourth year of the elementary education program at the University of Regina and will be finishing my degree in the fall of 2022. I grew up in the small town of Choiceland, Saskatchewan where I attended K-11, and then moved to Tisdale, Saskatchewan where I attended grade 12 and graduated in 2018. My interests and hobbies include everything and anything Disney-related, spending time with my dog Scarlett, letting my creativity run free through crafting and video editing, and a good trip to the mall! Ever since my first trip to Disneyland I became hooked on the magical, happy, and overall atmosphere of the park. When I am able to be in my own educational space I want to replicate this feeling in my classroom to help build trust, relationships, and a happy place for my students.
My experiences in the classroom so far consist of being placed in a grade 4 classroom within my ECS 110 class, where I was able to take part in the daily activities that the teacher had set up for his students. I was able to participate, lead as an example, help students when they had questions, and observe the teacher and learn about tools that worked well in his classroom. In ECE 325 I was placed in a grade 1 class in Ecole Harbour Landing Elementary School. Here, I strictly observed students’ behavior, how they responded to their lessons, and observed the teacher and how she treated different learning strategies and different events that took place within the classroom. In my ELNG 200 class, I got to be much more hands-on. I was placed in Holy Rosary Community School where I worked with children who needed some extra support with the English language. My time at Holy Rosary was cut short as the Covid-19 pandemic ended it three weeks early, but the time I did have there was spent with two assigned students to myself specifically where I was able to help them read, write, work on papers, watch videos, and get to know them as individuals.
My educational journey continues as I am in my pre-internship. Upcoming in March I will be taking part in the final section of my pre-internship (otherwise known as a three-week block). Within this part of my journey, I have finally been able to create and apply my lesson plans to a classroom, in this case, Kindergarteners! After my pre-internship, there is only one thing left to do in the fall, which will be an internship that will take place over the course of three months. I hope to return back to my hometown to take part in my internship and blog throughout this chapter of my life. After all, this time next year I will be finishing my program as an elementary education student!
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