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Friday, December 02, 2011
Week 11/28 - 12/2
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Reflecting this week on my work with select kids on their alphabet. After observing the work I’ve done with two of the same kids for the entire week, I’ve noticed that one of them has a great influence on the other. If one decides not to do something, the other decides to follow suit. Seeing this to be a problem, I started taking the two of them, one at a time, to work on their alphabet. This worked and one has been doing a lot better, but the other still needs a lot of help because of his disability. I made a slight break through with one of the students who has been giving Mrs. Tosch an issue. Because he has been separated from the group, when the children have carpet time, he has to stay at his desk so I stand by him to make sure he still feels included and to keep him calm. This has been working and he hasn’t been bursting out as much. I stayed by him during one of the class activities to help him and helped him when he got stuck. He did wonderfully and didn’t burst out at all. He might have a craving for attention or something because as long as you are giving him attention he’s fine. Hopefully he grows out of this as he gets older. I’ve been giving him high fives and lots of praise when he does something good and he’s been responding well to it. The kids tend to complain or tell on other students for silly things and what I’ve been doing to divert their attention from it by diluting it so they don’t care anymore. Jasmine
This week I did my lesson of pronouns, it was very fun and very informative in ways to improve my teaching. The kids listened, but it was kind of hard keeping their focuses. I had to keep pulling them back in. The page I made seemed to much trouble than it was worth with two of the second graders. I think it would have been better to of split up the group and done them separately. Besides the lesson, I got to experience preparations for the tornado drills. I found it nice, how when the teacher was like including herself with the kids about how “we all need to be quiet so we can impress the principal”. I just found it really cute and made them feel like they were a family and they all have something to prove. Unfortunately, the tornado siren was running late so I couldn’t stay to see them do it. On Thursday, Mrs. Montgomery was absent, so we had a sub. Two kids were being really hyper and teasing each other, so I had to get them to cut it out and focus on the sub. Then, a third grader was taking very long on a test and he need to go to art, I think. The aide took away the rules he was playing with and he got all upset. So I went over there to try to get him to work on the test. He only had one problem left. So I all I did was read the question for him and he did. They sometimes make such a big deal out of nothing. The rest of the week, I just sort of played with the kids, helped them on their work, and helped them with AR tests.
This week the kids seemed to be very squirmy. I also felt very sick last week so that didn't help the situation. The noisy troublemakers were extra noisy, and the quiet students were getting on the teacher's nerve. I did my best to keep the noise level at a reasonable level. This week I also went over my lesson plan and decided what I was going to teach for next week. I'm not going to lie, I am extremely nervous about teaching this class. I am very comfortable with them but it is still nerve racking!
Mrs. Sobocinski had to get some type of tubing in her nose and throat so we had a sub for two days this week. It was difficult for me to adjust to the different teacher so it had to be even harder on the kids. She was completely different from our regular teacher and much more strict. She handled the classroom in a way I hadn't witnessed during cadet teaching and it surprised me how well the class adapted. During the week we did calendar and it was one of my students birthday Friday so I let her run calendar. A lot of the kids complain about never doing calendar and I don't know how to react to it so I just ignore it. Probably not the best solution but I can't promise they'll get to do calendar on their birthday because I won't be there for all of their birthdays.
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Reflecting this week on my work with select kids on their alphabet. After observing the work I’ve done with two of the same kids for the entire week, I’ve noticed that one of them has a great influence on the other. If one decides not to do something, the other decides to follow suit. Seeing this to be a problem, I started taking the two of them, one at a time, to work on their alphabet. This worked and one has been doing a lot better, but the other still needs a lot of help because of his disability. I made a slight break through with one of the students who has been giving Mrs. Tosch an issue. Because he has been separated from the group, when the children have carpet time, he has to stay at his desk so I stand by him to make sure he still feels included and to keep him calm. This has been working and he hasn’t been bursting out as much. I stayed by him during one of the class activities to help him and helped him when he got stuck. He did wonderfully and didn’t burst out at all. He might have a craving for attention or something because as long as you are giving him attention he’s fine. Hopefully he grows out of this as he gets older. I’ve been giving him high fives and lots of praise when he does something good and he’s been responding well to it. The kids tend to complain or tell on other students for silly things and what I’ve been doing to divert their attention from it by diluting it so they don’t care anymore.
Jasmine
This week I did my lesson of pronouns, it was very fun and very informative in ways to improve my teaching. The kids listened, but it was kind of hard keeping their focuses. I had to keep pulling them back in. The page I made seemed to much trouble than it was worth with two of the second graders. I think it would have been better to of split up the group and done them separately. Besides the lesson, I got to experience preparations for the tornado drills. I found it nice, how when the teacher was like including herself with the kids about how “we all need to be quiet so we can impress the principal”. I just found it really cute and made them feel like they were a family and they all have something to prove. Unfortunately, the tornado siren was running late so I couldn’t stay to see them do it. On Thursday, Mrs. Montgomery was absent, so we had a sub. Two kids were being really hyper and teasing each other, so I had to get them to cut it out and focus on the sub. Then, a third grader was taking very long on a test and he need to go to art, I think. The aide took away the rules he was playing with and he got all upset. So I went over there to try to get him to work on the test. He only had one problem left. So I all I did was read the question for him and he did. They sometimes make such a big deal out of nothing. The rest of the week, I just sort of played with the kids, helped them on their work, and helped them with AR tests.
This week the kids seemed to be very squirmy. I also felt very sick last week so that didn't help the situation. The noisy troublemakers were extra noisy, and the quiet students were getting on the teacher's nerve. I did my best to keep the noise level at a reasonable level. This week I also went over my lesson plan and decided what I was going to teach for next week. I'm not going to lie, I am extremely nervous about teaching this class. I am very comfortable with them but it is still nerve racking!
Mrs. Sobocinski had to get some type of tubing in her nose and throat so we had a sub for two days this week. It was difficult for me to adjust to the different teacher so it had to be even harder on the kids. She was completely different from our regular teacher and much more strict. She handled the classroom in a way I hadn't witnessed during cadet teaching and it surprised me how well the class adapted. During the week we did calendar and it was one of my students birthday Friday so I let her run calendar. A lot of the kids complain about never doing calendar and I don't know how to react to it so I just ignore it. Probably not the best solution but I can't promise they'll get to do calendar on their birthday because I won't be there for all of their birthdays.
^Cait.
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