Visiting another student teacher

On April 2, 2015 I observed Ms. Jenna Moser who is student teaching at Shippensburg High School with Mrs. Biers.  She is currently teaching a full class schedule which includes Ag Mechanics, large animal, leadership, and horticulture.

I will be honest knowing Jenna and how she is the way she handles her students kind of shocked me. I did not expect to see her being rough and tough. It was very nice to see though. This really showed with her Ag mechanics class and the students respected her. This class is a 9 week class which ends on Tuesday so they were finishing up projects that were either woodworking or welding.

Second block the students presented their projects on sheep and goats. I actually, also presented to this class and talked to them about what I do and the goat world. These presentations ranged from both end of the spectrum. It was surprising that this large animal class, most of them have little to none experience with large animals. I spoke to them about my goat business and asking simple questions they had no idea.

It was interesting to see a leadership class that is for basically the officer team to work on FFA items. Today they were planning their lessons to teach to younger students and spent the rest of the period on banquet planning.

The last class of the day was horticulture, where they focused on flower arranging for this day. This is where Jenna really stood out. She became so full of life and excited, this was her element. She took so much pride in getting the flowers for the students and having them create an arrangement before they left for Easter break.

This observation was really neat to see how Jenna student teaching was going and how hers was different from mine. It was also interesting to compare Shippensburg Ag department and classrooms compared to Manheim Central.