Week 3

This week I was able to go into the school during my CE's planning period to talk about different topics and to begin scheduling what days I will be teaching my lessons. The first day I went to her "planning period," we had to go to a meeting that is mandatory for all teachers and it is known as "Tech Tuesday." This meeting consisted of teaching the teachers how to use the new Grade book system that the school is enforcing them to use this year. This meeting was very informal, because I was able to learn and become familiar with a system that I am going to have to be using next semester.

During the next meeting that I had with my Clinical Educator, we were able to talk about the different things that happened during the first week of school, and how she's going to change some things and what things are going to stay the same. She also let me shadow her while she was making a test. This was a huge thing for me to be able to watch her make this test because she has three different classes; and inclusion class, an accelerate class, and a regular class. She practiced NCTCS 2d, she was able to collaborate with the 7th grade EC teacher so that she could apply differentiation to the test that she was giving the regular class. Differentiation is such a big part in school systems today, just knowing that you have the power to meet the needs of other students is just amazing. She also practices NCTCS 3a, every day when the kids walk into the classroom she has the standard that she will be teaching on laminated on a piece of paper and hanging on her board, so that the students know what topic they will be learning that day.

This method will definitely be applied in my future classroom, as I have to work with my colleagues on differentiating for the students in my class. I will be able to practice the standards that I have stated throughout this blog, so that I may be able to meet every student in my classroom's needs. I can't wait until I have my own classroom and can put these methods into practice!!