Talent Show Auditions
This week has been an eventful week with so many things at hand that needed to be completed and I can honestly say I have been one busy bee. This week at my internship was busy but we managed to squeeze in time to allow the students that signed up for the talent show to practice during lunch to prepare them for their auditions on Friday. I printed the lyrics out for the students who didn’t know the words and gave advice on how they can improve and my CT legally downloaded the music onto a CD for them to keep and use during the audition. We then had to explain to the students what burning CD’s was because they asked what burning a cd is. The students are not familiar with that type of technology. We did morning meeting and had a community discussion on some of the behaviors that have been occurring in class. Several students talked it out, apologized and other students gave advice on what they can do to improve. On one occasion one student was being defiant and refused to do what he was told I approached him and gave the student two options and so he finally went to the classroom library to get a book and he was taking forever to pick a book. So I went over and noticed he had a book on sea creatures so I asked if I could see it and found a page that caught my attention because I was familiar with vampire squid. So I started to talk and tell him how neat these creatures are and he read the whole book and then I allowed him to do research online and watch an educational video online, he even went and got out his science journal and wrote down all the facts on the vampire squid. I taught with my CT today on an activity during math “Problem in the Bag” but first I taught a quick lesson on patterns and how to find the rule for the pattern. They quickly got it after the first problem and then we jumped into the activity. The students were really engaged with this kind of activity and my CT is all about using Kagan activates in her classroom. The “Problem in the Bag” is not a Kagan activity but allows the students to think critically and problem solve. I collected data from I-Ready on all the students so we can pull them for groups in the morning and I managed to group some students based on the similarity in the problem area for example I noticed three students that need help with “final e”. Overall it was a week of learning and experiences that will allow me to grow as a teacher in the future.
This week has been an eventful week with so many things at hand that needed to be completed and I can honestly say I have been one busy bee. This week at my internship was busy but we managed to squeeze in time to allow the students that signed up for the talent show to practice during lunch to prepare them for their auditions on Friday. I printed the lyrics out for the students who didn’t know the words and gave advice on how they can improve and my CT legally downloaded the music onto a CD for them to keep and use during the audition. We then had to explain to the students what burning CD’s was because they asked what burning a cd is. The students are not familiar with that type of technology. We did morning meeting and had a community discussion on some of the behaviors that have been occurring in class. Several students talked it out, apologized and other students gave advice on what they can do to improve. On one occasion one student was being defiant and refused to do what he was told I approached him and gave the student two options and so he finally went to the classroom library to get a book and he was taking forever to pick a book. So I went over and noticed he had a book on sea creatures so I asked if I could see it and found a page that caught my attention because I was familiar with vampire squid. So I started to talk and tell him how neat these creatures are and he read the whole book and then I allowed him to do research online and watch an educational video online, he even went and got out his science journal and wrote down all the facts on the vampire squid. I taught with my CT today on an activity during math “Problem in the Bag” but first I taught a quick lesson on patterns and how to find the rule for the pattern. They quickly got it after the first problem and then we jumped into the activity. The students were really engaged with this kind of activity and my CT is all about using Kagan activates in her classroom. The “Problem in the Bag” is not a Kagan activity but allows the students to think critically and problem solve. I collected data from I-Ready on all the students so we can pull them for groups in the morning and I managed to group some students based on the similarity in the problem area for example I noticed three students that need help with “final e”. Overall it was a week of learning and experiences that will allow me to grow as a teacher in the future.