Parent Conference and Lesson Teaching
My week started off with taking over the morning meetings and we did the greetings in different languages and the activity I introduced was passing a funny face to the next student which they loved. On Tuesday I stayed for an interesting parent conference that lasted until 4:30pm with just one parent. It was the second parent conference for the same student with behavior issues. I saw how a parent can be in denial about their child and how the student blamed other students for their bad behavior. But the more the parent talked and the teachers talked after a while the parent started to feel comfortable talking and then the students’ bad behavior issues started to come to light. The parent talked about certain things their child has done in previous schools and at home incidents. I was able to see how the three teachers present listened to the parent and the student and the way they talked to the parent back so that the parent didn’t feel overwhelmed. On Wednesday I started to teach my Civics lesson plan and had to make adjustments the day prior because of the book that I had originally choosen for the read aloud wasn’t available. The book I chose was below grade level for the students but when reading it some of the words I had to really explain because they didn’t understand. Then I finished my second half on Friday and I had to skip one of my activities because of time constringent. I realized after I finished that I should have focused on one thing only and go in depth on that one topic because I had so many different things going on that I think they only got a small outlook of what I was trying to accomplish. I did create a PowerPoint slideshow and a voting box with ballots and I voted stickers to pass out. I don’t think a lesson should be rushed but that’s how it feels at times having to constantly look at the clock. On Friday morning during MTSS I observed my CT do fluency assessments and then I helped her complete the rest of the classroom. I did fluency assessments a while back when she was out and I had a substitute and had to do them on my own. I realized I did well the first time and doing them again was a nice refresher for me. During Science my CT took the class to read outside for a different scenery and the reading was about trees so we all sat under the trees so the students can have visuals. Then during specials it was PE time and we walked the class down to the courts and left but then we came back to join them to play tennis with the students. The students liked that we went to play with them for a while and then we took the students that had money to go purchase ice cream from the 5th graders who were selling ice cream for a fundraiser. Afterschool we planned for next week and I will be teaching math on two separate days. Since the lessons are already outlined it’s up to me to come up with how I want to start and what kind of ideas I would use in order to accomplish this. So my homework is to go over the word problem and the misconceptions and create an outline of how I want it to go. I think my challenge is going to be explaining the thousandths decimal place value because they have not learned this only the hundredths place value; the decimal rounding I think will go smooth.
My week started off with taking over the morning meetings and we did the greetings in different languages and the activity I introduced was passing a funny face to the next student which they loved. On Tuesday I stayed for an interesting parent conference that lasted until 4:30pm with just one parent. It was the second parent conference for the same student with behavior issues. I saw how a parent can be in denial about their child and how the student blamed other students for their bad behavior. But the more the parent talked and the teachers talked after a while the parent started to feel comfortable talking and then the students’ bad behavior issues started to come to light. The parent talked about certain things their child has done in previous schools and at home incidents. I was able to see how the three teachers present listened to the parent and the student and the way they talked to the parent back so that the parent didn’t feel overwhelmed. On Wednesday I started to teach my Civics lesson plan and had to make adjustments the day prior because of the book that I had originally choosen for the read aloud wasn’t available. The book I chose was below grade level for the students but when reading it some of the words I had to really explain because they didn’t understand. Then I finished my second half on Friday and I had to skip one of my activities because of time constringent. I realized after I finished that I should have focused on one thing only and go in depth on that one topic because I had so many different things going on that I think they only got a small outlook of what I was trying to accomplish. I did create a PowerPoint slideshow and a voting box with ballots and I voted stickers to pass out. I don’t think a lesson should be rushed but that’s how it feels at times having to constantly look at the clock. On Friday morning during MTSS I observed my CT do fluency assessments and then I helped her complete the rest of the classroom. I did fluency assessments a while back when she was out and I had a substitute and had to do them on my own. I realized I did well the first time and doing them again was a nice refresher for me. During Science my CT took the class to read outside for a different scenery and the reading was about trees so we all sat under the trees so the students can have visuals. Then during specials it was PE time and we walked the class down to the courts and left but then we came back to join them to play tennis with the students. The students liked that we went to play with them for a while and then we took the students that had money to go purchase ice cream from the 5th graders who were selling ice cream for a fundraiser. Afterschool we planned for next week and I will be teaching math on two separate days. Since the lessons are already outlined it’s up to me to come up with how I want to start and what kind of ideas I would use in order to accomplish this. So my homework is to go over the word problem and the misconceptions and create an outline of how I want it to go. I think my challenge is going to be explaining the thousandths decimal place value because they have not learned this only the hundredths place value; the decimal rounding I think will go smooth.