Thursday, April 13, 2017
Third Post
I can’t
believe we have already completed week four! It feels like we are just now
beginning to get into the groove of the classroom and really begin to
understand what the student’s need and what our teacher needs us to do. This
experience is really invaluable. I am learning so many techniques and ideas
from my co-teacher that I will be able to use in my future classroom. The
students are beginning to respect the student teachers more and get that we are
pre-service teachers and they have to actually do what we say! Each week, we
work on guided reading lesson plans and each week I have more and more fun with
my group. We have had the same group since day one. I can see them begin to
listen to me more and value what I say and work towards understanding the
vocabulary and grammar parts more. I have two ELL students in my group and I started giving them sticky notes so that they can write down new words they didn't know from the book. One of my students really takes it to heart and saves all her sticky notes and mine (my cues for the questions I want to ask during the lesson). It seems that this week, we have had very
productive days and have been getting a lot of work done to help our co-teacher
out. We do a lot of pulling struggling students aside and re-teaching/practicing
the lesson with them. I like this because it helps me think of new strategies
to attempt to explain the concept to our students. I am excited for our next week, but sad that it is our last. I have gotten used to "going to school" every day already
and will miss them.
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That is so wonderful that you have the opportunity to make adjustments and adaptations for the students who are not understanding the material the first time. I think knowing how to adjust and reiterate in a different way is very important because not all students learn in the same way and some need more reinforcement of the material than others.
ReplyDeleteTia! I agree with you, that we are finally getting into the groove of things. Especially having you right across the hall I love seeing how you interact with the students, vs how I do. I believe the biggest lesson we can learn is that each student needs help in their own way, and pulling struggling students out is actually helping them, because they are learning at their pace!
ReplyDeleteIt's so cool that we all get to experience getting into the routine of things but it's also sad because just when we got used it, we had to go! I love that you had such a great idea with the post-it notes and it's so cool that the student loved it so much!
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