Student Teaching

Week 12

I am going to rate my week at a 4. It was a pretty great week and my students are showing progress with their test scores and their behaviors. But, being a full time student and practically working a full time job without a break is exhausting.

Observe
This week, one of the students I have been working with started getting her work done and stayed on task for most of this week.
Reflect
I noticed that with all of the things going on, it is hard to sit down at home and just read through articles of research for education. Now that I have a little more time to research, I will be spending my time for next week doing so.
Focus
My goals are aligned in gaining confidence as a new teaching by getting to see my student's test scores progressing, which makes me feel great that they're growing
Be Productive
I could have spent more time researching, which I now will be doing more of. I like learning new things that can be done in the classroom.
Have Courage
Apprehension really affected me this week. I was so tired that I procrastinated doing my lessons and had to stay up all night for two nights working on them.
Begin Anew
Next week, the first steps I will be taking is plugging in my findings into lessons and my portfolio. I will be working a lot on my portfolio from now on since I have most of my data
This week I found this awesome app called ChatterKid. This app allows students to take a picture of something, draw a mouth on that picture, and record themselves reading. The recording then looks like the picture is talking with their voice. We did this with persuasive writing and the students loved it!
To other student teachers: it has been easy to procrastinate in semesters before, but this semester is not one of those times. Keep on keeping on!
NCTCS
1a I showed leadership by collecting data on the students' tests
2b I sent home a paper on family heritage for my students to complete with their families and send back to school so that we can learn more about one another and how diverse we all are
3c I have been integrating science a lot with my intervention groups so they can learn about nonliving and living things through reading and writing
4e I integrated a lot of technology in my classroom with my students, especially with ChatterKid.
5c I adapted a lot of my math plans this week. I had seen that students were not understanding the lesson I had written out for them, so I changed up how I would teach it to them. When I tested them on Friday I got to see that by changing it up, they understood the concept a whole lot more.
I have most of the data for my portfolio, I just have to plug it in
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