Observation
On Wednesday March 25, 2015 due to testing I was able to observe/assist in another classroom still same grade level but a literacy class. I came in the middle of an activity and they were working on creating a booklet to write their own story based on a video about Greek mythology they had just finished watching. They were able to get creative with the use of crayons and picking their own character on who they were going to write about. Once they were finished then they went into the Journey books and started to discuss the vocabulary words they were going to see in the text so they can familiarize with those words. Then the teacher asked engaging questions based on the picture and the title of the story before they actually started reading the story. Then the teacher began his read aloud and during the reading he would stop and ask questions to the students about what was being read. Once ESE students got done testing all students went back to their homeroom teachers and so I left as well to my CTs class. During specials I went next door to another teacher’s class with my CT and they started to work on Student Progress Alert and I was able to provide my feedback based on my observation on student’s Academic or Behavior progress. My CT explained and showed me the data on how they determine what the student gets on the progress alert and who are the students that get a progress alert. I learned that a teacher can give OL (On Level) but with N (Needs Improvement) or OL A (Above Average) and BL (Below Level). On the progress alerts a teacher can request a parent conference with the student’s parent. There is also a section for Expected Behaviors and on here the teacher will make remarks on a student. For example we have a student who is Above Average but he never participates in class and a remark was made (Needs to participate in class) in the Expected Behavior section. Friday March 27, 2015 was a day of reviewing math perimeter and area by having them do an activity using a blank sheet with square units and they had to make complex shapes based on one given number to work with either they are given the perimeter or the area. The students that had trouble I went around and did a one on one with them and then we moved on to science by having them sit in a circle in the rug area. We went over parts of the flower and two types of seeds flowering fruit and conifers. This lesson went well with the first class but with the second class my CT had to regroup them back to their seats and have them do a Venn diagram working in pairs to fill in the diagram (flowers, conifers and similarities). During specials we planned for next week in which I will be doing a match activity that is a 2 day lesson and the students will be in centers by allowing them to draw a map based on a set of instructions and with guidelines using Geometry. I will be searching the internet and going through my math book for ideas to add to day 2 of the math lesson.
On Wednesday March 25, 2015 due to testing I was able to observe/assist in another classroom still same grade level but a literacy class. I came in the middle of an activity and they were working on creating a booklet to write their own story based on a video about Greek mythology they had just finished watching. They were able to get creative with the use of crayons and picking their own character on who they were going to write about. Once they were finished then they went into the Journey books and started to discuss the vocabulary words they were going to see in the text so they can familiarize with those words. Then the teacher asked engaging questions based on the picture and the title of the story before they actually started reading the story. Then the teacher began his read aloud and during the reading he would stop and ask questions to the students about what was being read. Once ESE students got done testing all students went back to their homeroom teachers and so I left as well to my CTs class. During specials I went next door to another teacher’s class with my CT and they started to work on Student Progress Alert and I was able to provide my feedback based on my observation on student’s Academic or Behavior progress. My CT explained and showed me the data on how they determine what the student gets on the progress alert and who are the students that get a progress alert. I learned that a teacher can give OL (On Level) but with N (Needs Improvement) or OL A (Above Average) and BL (Below Level). On the progress alerts a teacher can request a parent conference with the student’s parent. There is also a section for Expected Behaviors and on here the teacher will make remarks on a student. For example we have a student who is Above Average but he never participates in class and a remark was made (Needs to participate in class) in the Expected Behavior section. Friday March 27, 2015 was a day of reviewing math perimeter and area by having them do an activity using a blank sheet with square units and they had to make complex shapes based on one given number to work with either they are given the perimeter or the area. The students that had trouble I went around and did a one on one with them and then we moved on to science by having them sit in a circle in the rug area. We went over parts of the flower and two types of seeds flowering fruit and conifers. This lesson went well with the first class but with the second class my CT had to regroup them back to their seats and have them do a Venn diagram working in pairs to fill in the diagram (flowers, conifers and similarities). During specials we planned for next week in which I will be doing a match activity that is a 2 day lesson and the students will be in centers by allowing them to draw a map based on a set of instructions and with guidelines using Geometry. I will be searching the internet and going through my math book for ideas to add to day 2 of the math lesson.