I have felt much better this week with my full time experience. I would rate my experience as a 4.5! I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to learn that I can be trained with my fellow staff members for Non -Violent Crisis Intervention Training. In my experience of full time teaching this week, I have learned so much about both my students and myself. I am going to build on the knowledge of how to correct student behavior in a positive manor giving feedback in such a way that I can help students realize that they should model their behavior like others who are doing things correctly. My short term goal this week is to get my EdTPA task two written. This is aligned of my ling term goal of finishing student teaching because this is a part of my requirements for student teaching. This week, I was very busy. I worked a lot on EdTPA and school related things for my students and it prevented me from keeping up with my one subject lesson set a day schedule. I could have spent more time during the week doing lesson plans, however; this week was mainly dedicated to EdTPA. I still sometimes look to my clinical educator for plans for curriculum which has affected what I am teaching in my classroom. I know there is not a lot I can do about this because the curriculum is pretty straightforward as far as what I am allowed to teach and when. As of right now, I am just trying to get through EdTPA. Once, I am done with EdTPA there will be a lot of mental clutter cleared.
Data Dive:
During PLC this week, we did a data dive into our IREADY scores. This was beneficial because it gave us an idea of what our students are struggling with and how we can best help them. During this time, we worked to make small groups for our math small groups.
NCPTS:
Standard 1b: This week, I was actively participating and discussing differentiation and data during my PLC with our instructional facilitator and principal.
Standard 2d: This week in my instruction during data and line plots, I varied my teaching so that my student with physical and mental delays would be able to participate. Instead of strictly using paper and pencil to do this activity, I instructed students to make a line plot with themselves.
Standard 3a: This week I Integrated literacy into my math standards when students had to read a graph, data, and information and graph it. They also had to explain and write about it.
Standard 4e: Students had to think critically during our math this week about how to read two sets of data, graph them on the same graph, and then talk about it.
Standard 5a: Throughout this week in our meetings together, my CE and I looked at our students learning and work to modify and change learning strategies to best fit their needs.
During this week, I have updated my PDP, professional development log, and my meeting log for pull out teachers. My clinical educator doesn't need any support as of right now. I don't have any further questions.
Hope that you all have had a blessed week!
I am so glad you were able to attend the NVCI training. What did you learn from this training? I encourage you to keep planning engaging lessons and have conversations with your CE about ways that you might vary lessons as long as you are covering the same objectives.
ReplyDeleteIt was great to have the opportunity to observe you teaching a math lesson this week. Keep up the good work!
Mallory, that is so cool that you were able to be trained for the non-violent crisis intervention! I can’t wait to hear more about it. It is also exciting to hear that you have learned so much about both yourself and the students this week. In the end that is the most important thing! Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteMallory, I hope your weeks continue to get better and less stressful. edTPA will be due soon so that is something we can all check off our list very soon. Keep up the great work!
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