Time has been my essential thing to reflect on this week. I have been realizing this past week the time it takes teachers in developing lessons outside of the classroom. Yes, there is forty minutes of planning, but many times that is for checking assignments, meetings, and copying materials. I have found it is becoming easier, now that I have a developed template and understand what essential questions to ask, though. It would be easy to give a worksheet each day and it would save a lot of time, but I do not want to do this. Therefore, time is taken in each percentage more that I teach.
I have also become more familiar this past week in the time to allot for each subject and each activity within the content area. I have to take into consideration the time it takes for students to write informaion as compared to them verbally telling me the answers. Third grade students are still working on spelling basic words and when that comes into play with writing, the time given needs to be acknowledged and taken into account. This is one area that I see myself needing to focus more on. I need to begin developing more lessons for when students complete a task quicker than expected.
Also, times change. In this past week we have switched subjects around to accomodate the necessary schedule. We used tech steps which took time to set up, use, and pack up. These lessons involved changing times of set lessons and making sure we had time to atleast hit the core subjects.
Finally, the time I have spent in the classroom as a whole has flown by! The more I am teaching, the quicker the day goes.
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hi! 1/3 of the semester is done. Welcome to Week 6.
ReplyDeleteHow is your use of time in the classroom going? This awareness takes time to develop.
What are the major student learning challenges at this point in the school year?
I am very excited that I have 1/3rd of the semester complete! It is flying by because I am always busy. (in the classroom and outside creating my lessons) Sooner than I expect I will have the year complete and be searching for my first job!
ReplyDeleteI found challenges with number lines. Some students write very large still and by doing this skipped many of their lines. Luckily, I believe they know how to use it. I am concerned with student reading levels; many students are below level. Mrs. Blickenstaff and I have noticed that this problem is spreading into other subject areas. Without the ability to read it is hard to follow directions, answer questions in social studies, and it even holds them back in their spelling tests.
You will find that without reading students will fall behind in everything. They even have to be able to read to achieve in math. That is why we spend so much time in the elementary school in that area.
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