Week 1

A summary of grades for the day. This can be the grade book you use with names omitted or with aliases instead of actual names.
A discussion of how the lessons went. What was successful? What could you improve? What suggestions did your mentor teacher have?
Ideas/brainstorming for future lessons.

Week one went really well. We spent alot of time organizing their classroom materials and doing some "house cleaning." The teacher passed out student profiles to send home to all the parents for them to fill out. This was a great way to know the background information of your students. She explained classroom rules and expectations. Student were quized on their personal information such as address, telephone number, and they learned how to work their locker.

One thing I like about my teacher is how she explains the extra details that deaf/HH students would miss out on most often. For example, who it is over the loud speaker that makes annoucements and why what they say is important.

I observed my teacher create a lesson plan on Eduphoria and realized the difference between what I learned in college and how it actually works in the modern classroom. I also observed a conversation between the deaf ed. teacher and the general ed. teacher about inclusion for a student with a cochlear.

The teacher did some in depth explanation with one student about the first school dance and how to ask his mom for permission, buy a ticket, and get to where he needed to be. It was a very indepth conversation and very instructive for the student. His mother only speaks Spanish to him, so it needed some extra attention.

I instructed a math lesson one morning on multiplication. The work sheet was a table where students had to multiply numbers from one row to one column and write the answer in an adjacent boxes. If I had to do it over again I would have done a refresher lesson on the difference between adding and mutliplication. I would have had dry erase boards and markers with erasers for each of the students to work with. I spent a great majority of my time running between their desks and the dry erase board.

One important piece of business I learned from my teacher this week is to write down a hard copy of everything that takes place in accordance with official business which could be used in an ARD meeting.