September 1, 2015
Today I talked to my co-op about my timeline of when I will begin teaching. This got me extremely excited. Beginning in October I will begin teaching Social Studies.I already started looking up lessons for my starting topic of American Symbols. I also began to think about a plan of action for my one-on-one student. Today we made it through 2 more sets of 10 sight words. By the end of our 20 minute session he was able to go through a total of 30 cards, twice, with no errors. For our next session I plan to finish the final set of 10 for the pre-primer words and incorporate the words into some type of activity/game. Although, I was surprised at how invested he was in just successfully getting through a deck of flash cards.
When I met with my co-op before the school year started she showed me how a lot of the beginning material in the students' workbooks was review. She explained that she usually can get through all of the review material by the end of week two. I can tell that her class this year is not following her norm. Many of the students don't have the review material mastered. I think there will most likely need to be some additional time spent on some of the review topics they have been doing. These topics include, but are not limited to, short vowel sounds, the correct way to write numbers, and sequencing of numbers. Another observation I have made is that during whole group lessons when the class is working on a page or pages from their workbook as a group there are some students that get the worksheet done in 2 minutes while as class we may spend 10 minutes on the page. This leaves some of the students getting off task while they wait to move on to the next page. This is something I will definitely remember when I have my own classroom one day and will try to address.
During the math lesson today, the SmartBoard was incorporated. I really liked seeing this since I have a minor in Educational Technology. I'm looking forward to finding ways to incorporate this type of technology into my lessons.
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