What does your assessment look like? What practices do you use to assess student learning. Is evaluation and assessment different in your classroom? How? (Look over the How am I doing sheet? I will give you tonight.)
Monday, April 2, 2012
How are you integrating literacy into all your instuction?
Hello Student Teachers:
I hope you have had a great transition switching placements and for the others that did not change, I hope you are feeling comfortable as you take on more responsibility.
I missed seeing you last week and we will not have lots of time to meet as a small group. Therefore, I am giving you a list of reflection focus questions for the semester. I have given some thought to what would be useful for you to reflect on throughout the rest of the semester. I will center these reflections around our course text.
The text is organized around the big question "What do schools look like when they are organized around the commitment to the achievement of high standards by all students?" That is a powerful question. That is the type of question that transforms schools and children. It is a question that I myself am grabbling with in terms of the college experience.
This is a quote from the author on how we move to forming a picture of what those type of schools should look like.
“A focus on building a positive and productive learning environment rather than an environment based on compliance and control seems to be an important first step.
"F. J. McDonald wrote in 1980 that teachers within the first six months of their teaching experience adopt a teaching style that will be the basis of their decision-making throughout their careers. If beginning with chapter one and marching through a text, focusing on compliance and control, or activity-driven decisions frame that style, we will never reach our goal of high achievement for all students. It is, therefore, essential that we "begin with the end in mind" and provide guidance for those new to our profession as they learn to do the same with their learners."
The Book , "Why didn't I learn this in College" provides an excellent summary of the practices that you have learned through out your years here at Etown. Based on this premise, I wanted to make sure we focused on the end in mind and the following six questions are being asked to guide your weekly reflections: I will post a separate heading for each.
Today' s Reflection:
1. How are you integrating literacy (reading, writing, speaking and listening) into all your instruction? Are you overt about the skills you focus on during each subject or is the emphasis only during reading language arts time?
I hope you have had a great transition switching placements and for the others that did not change, I hope you are feeling comfortable as you take on more responsibility.
I missed seeing you last week and we will not have lots of time to meet as a small group. Therefore, I am giving you a list of reflection focus questions for the semester. I have given some thought to what would be useful for you to reflect on throughout the rest of the semester. I will center these reflections around our course text.
The text is organized around the big question "What do schools look like when they are organized around the commitment to the achievement of high standards by all students?" That is a powerful question. That is the type of question that transforms schools and children. It is a question that I myself am grabbling with in terms of the college experience.
This is a quote from the author on how we move to forming a picture of what those type of schools should look like.
“A focus on building a positive and productive learning environment rather than an environment based on compliance and control seems to be an important first step.
"F. J. McDonald wrote in 1980 that teachers within the first six months of their teaching experience adopt a teaching style that will be the basis of their decision-making throughout their careers. If beginning with chapter one and marching through a text, focusing on compliance and control, or activity-driven decisions frame that style, we will never reach our goal of high achievement for all students. It is, therefore, essential that we "begin with the end in mind" and provide guidance for those new to our profession as they learn to do the same with their learners."
The Book , "Why didn't I learn this in College" provides an excellent summary of the practices that you have learned through out your years here at Etown. Based on this premise, I wanted to make sure we focused on the end in mind and the following six questions are being asked to guide your weekly reflections: I will post a separate heading for each.
Today' s Reflection:
1. How are you integrating literacy (reading, writing, speaking and listening) into all your instruction? Are you overt about the skills you focus on during each subject or is the emphasis only during reading language arts time?
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