Wow, week one is already complete! I have helped Mrs. Blickenstaff set up the rest of her classroom, which wasn't as much as I would have expected to do; she was on top of the students' first few days of third grade. We laminated so many things for the students including homework folders, management stars, and their first writing/get to know me activity.
I am lucky to be in this classroom not only for being with a teacher who utilizes technology as much as she can, but also because I know many of the students already. I have worked with some students once in my tutor year, others from my tutor and participant year. Now that I am in the third grade, I have some students for a third time! I believe this will help me when I begin full time teaching because I know strengths, weaknesses, learning styles, and behaviors. I am very excited to begin learning the few students that I have never worked with, as well.
To go off of a blog prompt, I read Mrs. Blickenstaff's classroom management plan that was given to the students. Her plan is based off of the school wide C.L.U.B. charts. When students disrupt the class based on one of the descriptions for a letter, this letter is marked on a calender-like chart. Students receive one star for each day that they did not receive a letter. For students to attend the end of the year field trip they need to acquire 140 stars. Mrs. Blickenstaff also encourages students to keep their stars because she keeps a jar in her room for students to fill with marbles. Each day that all student receive their stars, the class gets a marble in the jar. We will soon brainstorm as a class what their reward will be for when the jar is half way filled. I like how the students have the positive reinforcement and something to look forward to.
I am now ready to begin easing my way into lessons this coming week.
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Is this Week 1? They must be keyed to the semester weeks. Well, I jumped on this so I'm ahead of the game. I've blogged with interns for the 2 years that they've been required. These can be helpful to your as therapy, as documentary, and as evidence for your AR. AR is very context-dependent, so what you write about in terms of what happened might be useful for that AR paper.
ReplyDeleteTo get started tell me about your grade, initial teaching assignments, classroom, host teacher???? etc. Thoughts/feelings going into full-time teaching. This experience can't be beat. In a year from now you'll be teaching in your first classroom that is yours, so make good use of this time.
BTW, Heather wrote a very detailed and interesting blog last year. She's in the Benedum Office working on a second master's in reading, so she's around.
Good luck this year.
Hello, I am Kimberly's host teacher and we have survived the first 3 days of school. I am very pleased with Kimberly's assistance and effort. She already knows a lot of the students and has given me some background from her past experiences. We have a lot of IEP's, so I am sure it will be an interesting semester for all of us.
ReplyDeleteKim, the routines are just as much for you the teacher as for the students! W/out the routines your head would explode. I like 3-5th grades (my student t was in 5th) as they have school figured out and you can really do things with you.
ReplyDeleteI would be curious to hear what the school priorities are for this year. and the challenges for this 3rd grade class!
Neal-any ideas on how to get someone to install our whiteboard?! I am wanting to jumpstart my teaching with technology in two weeks. Mrs. Blickenstaff is going nuts without this too! They have e-mailed certain people, but still no board. I am nervous on how my AR will work without it!
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