Kaitlyn+Hodges



My name is Kaitlyn Hodges. I am a senior at Clemson University where I major in Elementary Education. I love working with children and cannot wait to have a classroom of my own soon! This semester I will be working with fourth graders at West End Elementary School in Ms. Beasley's class. I am looking forward to getting in a classroom and getting to work!

I am pretty technologically literate but in today's society new technology and advances occur so rapidly that it is hard to really be on top of things. I believe I know enough about technology to incorporate it into my classroom effectively but with more practice and teaching I feel I could use technology more efficiently and in a way that is more appealing and engaging for my students.

West End Elementary School is in Pickens County which is exclusively a promethean district.

My classroom has an interactive promethean board as well as an ELMO and other tools for the board. My teacher has a personal laptop and there are other laptops stationed in the classroom.

I found the blogs on Edutopia very interesting. I feel they could be very useful for teachers to share ideas and success or challenges they have with different areas.

 Science Technology Useful Website: [|www.funology.com/laboratory/] Funology: The Science of Having Fun This site offers a large variety of options for Science instruction. The site offers experiments and ideas that can be carried out in the classroom as well as interactive games and activities that can be done on the computer as a class or individually. Then site offers many other resources including recipes, boredom busters, and even science jokes and riddles. I think this site would be great to set up as a learning center or to pull ideas from to use with the entire class. ELA Technology Useful Website: [] Homework Hub: Book Report Sandwich Station This site is a great way to help students who are struggling to write well-developed paragraphs and/or stories. The site walks students through the important parts of a book report in a fun way by relating it to building a sandwich. I think this would be a great way to help students get on the right track with writing and scaffold the process as a whole.