Wow, 3 down weeks
and 13 more weeks to go, and I can’t believe how the days are just flying by.
Again my experience was amazing this week.
I get to deal with
“exceptional” children daily since I am in an Inclusion Resource position.
These students are so sweet and loveable and sometimes it is just hard to see
how their peers treat them. The General Education teacher’s lessons do
challenge each student in their class. With the 2nd grade class, the
“exceptional” children in there are capable of doing grade level work, but they
have ADHD which affects their ability to focus on the work they are doing. So
from time to time, I do pull those students to our room to get them away from
the distractions of their classmates so that they can focus and complete the work.
My cooperating teacher
was away at a 4 day off campus training with 5 other staff members and I was
left with a sub, so I basically was the main teacher this week. The sub did
help in ways that I told her she could help and on Friday when my cooperating
teacher came back she basically stood back to just observe and take care of
things that came up during the four days she was gone.
On
Tuesday, I had my first formal observation by College Supervisor. He came to observe me
teaching the Trophies reading lesson in the 3rd grade Inclusion
class we go into. It went really well. There are a few things that I forgot to
do. One thing I forgot to do start the audio version of the story for a student
who has IEP accommodations to listen to the story instead of hearing whole
group, but it was okay because since they focus on the same story all week
there was ample enough time for her to listen to the story on tape. Another
thing I forgot to do was acknowledge student’s answers with a positive and
immediate feedback. Instead of walking around to make sure that everyone was
following along, I relied on the teacher and my cooperating teacher’s sub to walk around and make sure that
everyone was on task. Now, I know what to work on and am looking forward to my
next observation. While my supervisor and I
were out in the courtyard discussing my observation the principal came over and
told him what a fabulous job I was doing and how she was happy to have my
as part of the C.T. Sewell family.
On
Friday, my cooperating teacher went to our 4th grade class while I
stayed in our 2nd grade class to help them with math since the
teacher’s Elmo wouldn’t work she had to teach the math lesson on the carpet in
a circle and need some extra help making sure that everyone was focused and paying
attention. After the math lesson, I played Simon Says with the students while
the teacher finished some important things that she needed to get done before
school was over. The students loved it and I felt that it gave me an
opportunity to establish a relationship with the students other than the ones
that receive direct Special Education services.
I
also had some more time this week to sit down and talk to my General Education
cooperating teacher to work on planning a math unit that I will teach when I
begin my student teaching with her on March 12.
She is very comfortable with me jumping in and taking over as soon as I
began my time with her. My experience has been marvelous; I believe that it
will continue to be a remarkable experience. I can’t wait to see what
opportunities come my way next.
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