We Never Stop Learning

Week two is here. I am still ahead of the game. I’m working more with individual students and helping out during math intervention. Monday went well, this will be my first official first week including team meeting with other second grade teachers.

Tuesday went well and I was better prepared for teaching the the D.O.L. I had a better idea of how to help the math intervention students as well as what works best for my special need students. I had also observed those students who should just not be sitting next to each other. I am learning their routine and timing of the schedule. I was all prepped for Wednesday and excited about participating more. Mother Nature however did not see it that way and blessed us with 30 below wind chill factor for the morning. In this instance the school district decided to close the schools. Under normal circumstances I would be fine with this, but this meant that there is now an extra day to student teaching.

Thursday! Well due to the snow day, we are a day behind in reading only. The students are still ahead in math. I did fluency assessments this morning as well as filling in for some teachers on my team. I helped with editing in the computer lab on the students timeline that they did in a program call Time Liner.

Friday! Well it happened again. Student teaching has now been extended yet another day. Due to receiving about 8 inches of snow the schools were closed again. I was able to meet with my co-operating teacher to go over the following weeks lesson plans so we could adjust the lesson plans to make up for the 2 snow days we had in one week. My teacher was apologetic for the chaotic week. I mentioned to her that it is ok, and is something i need to adapt to. I know teaching is never set in stone and that like life this happen and you need to be flexible and go with the flow. Two and half hours later we had all the weeks lesson plans modified and had brain stormed some ideas for activities while we did common reading assessment and planned out the 100th day of school. It was comforting to find out that the way I had marked up the teacher manual with post-its, was the same way my co-op used to do it. I really want to be well prepared for the first formal observation because it will be here before i know it. My week two was quite interesting I can’t wait to see what week three will bring.

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