Monday, October 20, 2008

Week 2 done at the high school

I began instruction after a week of observation last week. High school is totally different and overwhelming in alot of ways. My teacher has so much on her hands at this school. The schedule is difficult for me to get used to because its block scheduling and in the two literature classes I'm teaching, alot of the students are in different grades and working from different books all at one time. I have to plan my week class by class, student by student. Insane! :) But its good at the same time. Doing pre and post assessment work is a joke at this point because my students are not good with turning in homework and I only have 30 minutes (thats right 30) to teach from two completely different books (Frankenstein and Scarlet Letter). Here are the grades I have so far.

YR 67/60
JW 84/0
KL 60/100

I have alot to learn as it is for teaching high schoool an juggling these students schedules. The things that were successful was a guided reading lesson introduction for each of the books. To improve, I would... I have no idea, its just going to take time to figure out what I'm doing. I need to be even more prepared than I thought. This takes up alot of time, planning lessons for individuals! I haven't received too many suggestions for what to do on the whole from my mentor teacher. More I less I have received specific suggestions for what to do with each student in planning their lesson. I work with 7 students total.

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