10/8/2011
Hi Blogging Circle!
I’m excited for a new quarter, and a new school
placement. I was sad to see my third
graders go so soon, but my dyad teacher has made me feel right at
home. Although I have only been in my
new placement two days, I can already anticipate the immense growth I will make
in teaching literacy in the next seven weeks.
Northshore uses Benchmark literacy, versus Journeys curriculum in
Bellevue. Both are foreign to me, and it’s
interesting to compare the similarities and differences.
I have worked one on one with several kids listening
for fluency, asking questions for comprehension, and reading aloud to them a
little. I working with my first ELL
student and really enjoyed his attitude and energy! I have no experience
teaching phonics but my placement teacher gave me good feedback on how I
sounded out words to him.
I was not here in September when my dyad teacher
assessed her student’s reading levels, however I’ve been working with each of
them individually. The real world
experience has really been invaluable to me.
Knowing what questions to ask to illicit comprehension of vocabulary and
storyline has given me some great tricks to keep in my back pocket.
I anticipate I’ll have several areas of growth in
both placement, and continue to blog about what I learn. I am getting lots of ideas for classroom set
up. For example, the photo below is a
time telling strategy one of the Northshore teachers has in her room. I have copies if anyone would like the
original print to make your own!
Telling time can be a hurdle for some students. As a volunteer a year ago I watched (and tried to help) a third grade teacher teach this to some students who should have learned it in second grade. The biggest problem was determining the hour when the little hand is getting close to the next hour. In your picture, is it 8:32 or 9:32? It gets more difficult when the big hand gets closer to 12.
ReplyDelete