Week of Reflection: Friday March 15, 2019
This week has been good overall. I would rate it as a 4. There are always things that could have gone better, but it was a good week.
A pleasant accomplishment this week was that my students had to complete RTA passages on the skill of using context clues. This was the last unit that I had completed with my students so I was anxious to see how they would all do. They did great and even the students that normally don’t do so well on these passages did well. It made me feel like they really did learn something and I was so proud!
A lesson I learned this week that I will build upon next week is that I need to be more specific in writing my lessons.
I have been working on getting things tagged in my lesson plan binder so that I can meet my long term goal of having all the standards passed off.
I feel that I could have spent more time on my portfolio. I spent some time on it, but I feel that more time could have been devoted to it.
The first logical step for next week is to have everything prepared in my lessons and work on my portfolio.
This week, looking at my grade book, I realized that I need to rethink my individual centers. Often times, I have all the students working on comprehension. However, I realized that this would be a great time for true differentiation. This is the time that I can have students working on what they need.
A piece of advice I have for other student teachers is to get to know everyone in your school. When the custodians come in my room to clean during planning, the conversations we have have become one of my favorite parts of each school day. They do so much for the school and I want them to know how much I respect and appreciate them. I try to tell them that every day!
NC Teacher Candidate Standards
I am working on a new way to integrate global awareness into my lessons. A 3rd grade standard is telling and writing time to the nearest minute, so I am going to start doing Minute Monday. Every Monday before we begin literacy, I am going to have students practice writing the time that it is where we live and drawing it on a clock and then we will look at a time from another country and practice writing it. This way, students understand the time difference and have practice writing time.
Amber,
ReplyDeleteIt's such a great feeling when your students are able to show how much they have learned and preform well on their tests. I hope that makes you proud of yourself and how much you poured into your students. Keep pushing through, we are almost there!
So glad you had a good week and that you are feeling better.
ReplyDeleteThe time unit sounds interesting. Make sure you teach the WHY of different times around the world if you add the global perspective
Amber, I am glad that you are have had a four out of five week! I am excited to hear about how your Monday activities with time go! I know time is such a difficult topic to cover, so really drilling it in their heads every week will be a great way to practice that fluency!
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