Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Friday March 19
Today I worked alot on helping the students complete some questions with a story that the teacher read with them. This was good because I got to converse and get to know the students alot more. Afterward the students went to their special, music. That gave me the chance to talk to my mentor teacher about upcoming lessons I would like to teach. I also got a chance to check with her if my science questions for my science conversation was alright. My mentor teacher also let me decide who I could choose. I chose the ELL who I am doing a study for in language arts, I chose a lower level student, and a higher level student. When the students got back from special I met with three students in the back of the classroom. I wanted to do the conversation somewhere more private but my mentor teacher wanted it to be done in the classroom. It was a little hard because she was teaching as I was trying to converse with the students, her voice is in the recording. I got the children talking about trees. It lasted about 20 minutes. One of my students kept talking about killing squirrels that around trees and it was hard trying to get her back to the subject of just talking about trees. Overall, it was a success. Afterward the children and the teacher played a sequence game to help them understand the importance of sequence. After that was complete I got to see a little bit of science. The intern talked about different land features and the difference between a hill and a mountain. They got to use clay to show the different lands.
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Critical Incident 2
ReplyDeleteI was very pleased to get to group up people that were at differnt levels. I had an ELL student, a lower level reader, and a higher level reader. I think that as a teacher is so important to be able to group up differnt people together becasue they just end up learning from each other. When I was doing my conversation the students just added on to what each person was saying. When the ELL student had a hard time saying what she wanted to say the lower level student helped her out by restating it in a way that was more understandable. The lower level student kept going off into tangets about killing squirrels and other forrest animals. When the higher level student spoke his sayings were more correct and made more sense. The lower level student would hear this, agree, and then elaborate what he said and/or tell her own related story. I just think that putting these students together helped every person in the group open up more and give more details and examples.
Critical Incident 6
ReplyDeleteAs an ESOL student myself in elementary school I would have loved to be able to interact with my fellow classmates like this and get to do the same activity as them. It is important to pull out ELL to help them but I do not think they need to be gone from the classroom for most of the day like I was. Becasue of this I never really felt a connection or bond with my original classroom because I was usually never there. So being able to give my ELL a chance to work with her classmates who are not at the same level as her was awesome.