Week 4 has come and gone, which means there are
only 12 more weeks left to gain as much experience as I can. This week has been
full of different experiences and opportunities for me.
On Monday, I had the opportunity to
represent the Special Education Department at an academic committee meeting. On
Tuesday, I had an opportunity to attend a special Sunrise Ceremony as the press
and District dignitaries were present. (Click here for a list links to the Press Release)
On Wednesday, I sat in and
participated in an IEP meeting for a Kindergarten student who is in the
Kindergarten class that I will be working in. This IEP meeting was an Annual
IEP review meeting and it gave me an opportunity to get to know the student and
the parent. It also gave me an opportunity to learn what the student’s present
levels are and what her goals are for the next year. My cooperating teacher was
acting as the LEA for the IEP and had to re-do a bunch of things because the
Resource Teacher did not complete the IEP correctly which resulted in the IEP
last over 2 hours.
The school’s Special Education Facilitator
asked my cooperating teacher to do a training about graphing data using
Microsoft Excel on the next staff development day; however my cooperating
teacher won’t be here. My cooperating teacher told our Facilitator that I will
be there and I am good at graphing data using Microsoft Excel, so my Facilitator
asked me if I felt comfortable enough to do the training and I said yes. So on
the next staff development day on the 21st I will be presenting the training
to the rest of the Special Education Department. I am slightly nervous, but
honored at the same time.
My cooperating teacher gave me the
opportunity on Friday to administer the Woodcock-Johnson III Test of
Achievement to a 4th grade student in preparation for his upcoming
IEP meeting. My cooperating teacher also informed me that we have a new 2nd
grade student that they just discovered is eligible for Special Education as
Learning Disabled in all areas. My cooperating teacher told me that I will be
creating the IEP under her guidance. Basically, she will be there if I have
questions and to make sure that I am on right track and that I am following the
Special Education laws.
I also this week finalized my
introduction letter that I am having my general education cooperating teacher
send out to the parents. I got to spend a little more time talking to her about
when I start student teaching with her and getting a head start on my planning.
I also scheduled my second formal
observation for this coming Tuesday, which is Valentine’s Day. I will be doing
a Valentine’s theme math lesson in the second grade class that I spend most of
my day in. The lesson I am doing is subtraction review lesson, so I have made
it into a game in which there will be no one winner. Instead, everyone in the
class will win a Valentine’s Goodie Bag from me. My husband helped me put
together these bags that have a pencil, a ruler/tracer, an eraser, a sticker
and a valentine.
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| Goodie Bag Making Station |
I am really looking forward to the
opportunities and experiences that are coming my way this next week and in the
weeks to come.
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