My Mentor Teacher and Technology

The actual classroom in which I attend is pretty limited to the technology that we have available. Within the classroom we have a teachers laptop with internet, a TV, VCR, DVD player, CD player, and an ELMO that we can check out. I have rarely seen my mentor teacher really use the technology besides watching behind the lions on the TV and listening to story tellers or music from the CD player. One thing that I believe she used technology well at however was when she did a read aloud. She began by showing a small clip about five siblings from Utah that all play the piano really well. They play the pianos at once and together to make really cool and interesting sounds. The video ended with them playing a famous classical music song. She then had the children lie on the floor and close their eyes and she played the same song from her CD player. Next she taught them words to the song that went along with the book that she was going to read aloud. At certain points throughout the book, they would all sing the song. It was really cute and the children had a blast. I've memorized the song and thing I will do something similar in my own classroom if resources allow. I know the school I'm at has a computer lab, but so far I have never seen my mentor teacher use it. We are not there the whole day however, so she could be using it and I just don't know about it. It would be nice though to see what lessons are available at the computer lab though. I wish she would use it at a time we are there.


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