During each entry, you should write about your time spent in the classroom that day. Depending on how you divide up your required time in the classroom, you may have as few as 7 entries or as many as 18 entries in your journal. Feel free to focus on any aspect of your classroom experience as long as it is related to material discussed in the course. As part of your practicum journal, you will conduct an interview with your assigned field placement teacher. Please do not use the students scheduled school time to conduct this interview, but try to set up a time before or after school.
Phone interviews are also acceptable.
The reason I suggest you set up an appointment is so the teacher may be attentive to your interview questions and not busy with teaching responsibilities. During this interview, you are responsible for creating the questions that you want to ask your teacher. Please type the interview into a transcript form. At the end of the written interview, please write a one to two paragraph summary of the interview. There will be one in-class exam.