Today was yet another interesting day. As promised in my last post, I did make up a poster with the top items selected and posted it in the front of the class (just for this period only) and put a typed copy in their personalized journal. I did it both ways just to make sure [...]
When I got to class on Monday I was all pumped up with how well things went last week regarding drawing up the learning agreement. Monday’s plan (in my head at least) was to have students read what they decided on last week and select their 2 top items to work on from each question. [...]
Carli & Becci, thanks for the comments on Parts 1 & 2! Here is a summary of what we came up with today. Jay suggested that I pre-type the answers up and eliminate the ones the class did not want so that made things go much faster. The biggest thing I found was when we [...]
Part 1: At my PM meeting on Tuesday, we watched the first 10 minutes of my second observation that did not go very well. Afterwards we discussed this and the take away was that the behavior issues I’ve been constantly dealing with do need to be addressed. There were many other things I need to [...]
Well, this is the last week for my 8 week placement and will be beginning my 4 week placement on Monday (I am one of those one the “funny schedule”). My CT had a party for me during each period which was a lot of fun with each period responding differently to me leaving. Third [...]
I started the “core” of my innovative unit last week and decided to include various pictures in this post with learnings after them to cut down on text! So here we go: Conductivity Measurement 3 day laboratory as a precursor to the innovative unit-can salt water conduct electricity to light up a Christmas tree bulb? [...]
I thought last week was by far my most challenging week during student teaching because of the roller coaster ride however this week seemed to be more challenging in a different sense. The common theme for me this week was “PERSEVERANCE and TENACITY”. When I think of those 2 words I am immediately reminded of [...]
I entitled this post the roller coaster ride because that is what it felt like. BTW I never liked riding roller coasters hence I will also use this as my personal “rant”! Ride #1 (up and down the hill): I was preparing for my first observation and the immediate challenge the week prior to it [...]
There are so many things I would like to share about events that happened during my placement this week but I find myself very focused on this question: what are we saying and are we listening to the students? This week was the first time I was at a school where a major fight [...]
It’s been 2 weeks since I posted about specifics related to student teaching at my placement so I thought I’d better get caught up! I will be capturing both the highs and learnings in bullet form (am trying to be more brief in my posts….)! So here it goes: The Highs First: 1. During a [...]