Placement observations
Reaction to Readicide
Assignments
I have learned so many things during my placement. For the last several weeks of placement, my host teacher scheduled opportunities for me to observe every single Math teacher in the school. By observing each teacher, I was able to witness many strategies in action. Some of the things that I saw I do hope to repeat in my own teaching, other I hope to never repeat! One especially nice thing to see was a Math teacher who successfully used a frayer organizer. She said that she recently saw them at a conference and loved them. It was so encourahing to see them be used, that I tried one as a literacy engagement!
Because I have completed my placement, all of my actual implementation is finished. Now, it os just time to write everything up! I have finished my TWS (at least I have turned in a rough draft), so now I should be able to turn my focus to other assignments. I feel that having these literacy engagements as assignments has helped me to see how to really implement these various strategies. I believe this process has helped me to get some very real life experience as a teacher.
After reading Readicide, I am very concerned about the generation of students that we have in our classrooms now. I am glad to see some strategies inthe book that offer possibilities to fixing the problem. If teachers can be more aware of the problem and have ways of fighting it, then maybe we can begin to make some impact. It can be very discouraging to see students who are simply disconnected from the outside world. They know so much about celebrities and television, but nothing about their own nation. I think that it is important to keep a pulse on how our students are thinking and to find ways to get them interested in reading about real life.
That's so cool that your teacher scheduled time for you to visit other classes. I wish that had been the case in my placement. Although I really liked and respected my host teacher, it would have been a good experience to see other teachers' techniques and tricks.
ReplyDeleteI wish I was able to go around and see other teachers teach. I especially wished I could of seen an example of a successful marriage of the regular ed and special ed teachers. I believe that would have been the best experience to see how the process working instead of what I saw.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you comment about student not knowing anything about their nation. They will be running the country in the near future and have no interest in what is going on. Hopefully we and other teachers will influence students to become informed because the cliche is true: Knowledge is power.
Chante I think that is great that you were able to observe other math classes. I wish that I would have had time to to do the same in my content. The Frayer model is a great tool. I have done research on graphic organizers and implemented several within in my classroom!
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