Background info: Last semester I was I in my methods block of my senior year at Black Hills State University. We were fortunate enough to spend time with the elementary students who we will be teaching durning our internship (student teaching). We spent half of our time in a traditional classroom setting and the other half in the elementary classroom.

I begin my teacher internship this week with the students I've already been working with. I'm thrilled to say that I will be using WBT with this class of third graders. I am pretty sure this might come as a surprise to the teacher I am working with, but she seems pretty open to whatever I want to do.

Anything I've learned about this has bee from the web.
Any tips for this newbie?

mrjank-

Read the eBooks and stay on the forum. There are great tips here! I wish you the best of luck in your field experience. I know that when I fully implemented WBT into my 3rd grade classroom, it made a world of difference both behaviorally and academically. I had a student teacher at the beginning of the year, and she was very grateful for the WBT techniques that I shared with her. She took them into her second field experience and turned the teacher on to WBT in another district in another grade level. She couldn't believe the difference in the classroom when she used WBT and when she didn't. Start with the scoreboard and the 5 classroom rules, and build from there. I'm sure you will do great! Let me know how it goes!

Thanks,
Staci Glass
WBT Intern, 2011-2012