As I focus more and more on my focus student Josh, I continue to learn all of his strengths and weaknesses. Josh is in fourth grade but is on a first grade reading level. Although he has support from many teachers at school as well as at home, he continues to struggle in almost every subject. I have noticed that he has a hard time focusing in class because most of the time he doesn't understand the material that is being taught and he seems to get frustrated very easily. Josh is considered ESE, however his mother insists on keeping him in my CT's classroom instead of going to another classroom for reading and language arts. When Josh is doing group work, I noticed he does a little better with focusing on what he needs to do because his group members are getting him involved in the discussions, but he still doesn't understand the material. When I first started to observe him, I noticed that his hand writing wasn't readable so I was going to do my inquiry on his hand writing. Now that I have observed him more I want to try to help him with focusing in class so he can learn more and understand the material better as well. Since my focus students needs a lot of attention, my question is I wonder how I can help Josh improve his handwriting as well as helping him focus more in class?
Recently my CT has been giving me a little more responsibility. She has allowed me to grade the students math homework and then call each student over to help them fix their mistakes. This allows me to be able to work with the students one on one and I can also discuss with my CT what I think the students need to work on a little more. Also this week in science, the students were working on their marshmallow flyers for the Science Olympics at MOSI. I told the class about how I did the marshmallow flyers when I was their age and how I was chosen to go to MOSI to compete. I was also able to help one of the students since his partner was absent. This week I have noticed that the students tend to work harder when she has group activities or when the groups are competing against each other. As I walk around the room I can hear their discussions and I can tell they are focused because they want to beat the other teams. This is something I want to do in my own classroom, however I do not want the students to become to competitive. Another thing I have noticed in the classroom is that since lunch is at 12:30 and specials are at 1:30 my CT doesn't have much time for Science or Social Studies. This worries me because I feel that all subjects are equally important and with this schedule my CT is not given enough time to teach what she needs to teach.
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Jillian Campos-22 years old Archives
April 2017
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