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How Did You Spend Your Time This Week? What Responsibilities Did You Have?

Carolyn Beaty's student teaching weekly log summarizes her responsibilities and experiences from February 10th to 14th. This week she led daily math reviews, taught lessons on polygons and health, and facilitated small group literacy work. Her most satisfying experiences were a field trip to a retirement home where students shared valentines and a Valentine's Day celebration. One challenge was an emergency situation in the hallway that scared students. Next week she will continue her duties and take over two reading groups, and is looking forward to gaining more classroom responsibilities.

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How Did You Spend Your Time This Week? What Responsibilities Did You Have?

Carolyn Beaty's student teaching weekly log summarizes her responsibilities and experiences from February 10th to 14th. This week she led daily math reviews, taught lessons on polygons and health, and facilitated small group literacy work. Her most satisfying experiences were a field trip to a retirement home where students shared valentines and a Valentine's Day celebration. One challenge was an emergency situation in the hallway that scared students. Next week she will continue her duties and take over two reading groups, and is looking forward to gaining more classroom responsibilities.

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Carolyn Beaty

Student Teaching Weekly Log February 10th -14th

1. How did you spend your time this week? What responsibilities did you have? This week I continued with all of the responsibilities that I had last week with routines, procedures, classroom management, paperwork, and assessment. In addition, I led the daily math review (DMR) each day. I facilitated this process and helped to explain different concepts to students including the break apart method. I created a DMR test that the students took on Thursday. It was a ten-question test to see if students understood the concepts that we were focusing on for the past 10 days in DMR. I also instructed students in a math lesson called What a square, which gave students practice with polygons with three to seven sides. The students really seemed to enjoy this lesson, and I was able to assess student understanding from the squares and worksheets they turned in. I also taught my final health lesson for my unit on how to test best. This lesson stressed the importance of exercise and stretching before a test. The students learned many stretches and exercises that they can use to help prepare themselves for a test and keep their bodies healthy. This week I continued to do the read aloud each day for the students, and made sure to stress my fluency so that the students would have a good model. I facilitated and checked over student work during small group literacy time just like I did last week. I observed my mentor teacher working with each group during small group literacy time, and I look forward to taking over this role for the red and yellow groups next week. This week I also taught lessons three of the reading groups about text features (diagrams, pictures, headings, labels, captions, etc) and their purpose. This led to great group discussion. This week I also attended building directed professional development that focused on CPI training. I thought that this was extremely useful and could be very helpful in the event of an emergency. I also attended IB collaboration with the rest of the 3rd grade team, and I collaborated with my mentor teacher, as well as the rest of the 3rd grade team. They were especially helpful when I was creating the DMR test. Having such a great group of people surrounding me helps me feel confident in my work. This week I also had the opportunity to sit in on a conference for one of my students where a translator needed to be present. I had never experienced a conference like this before and it was great to see how a conference with an interpreter is conducted. It also allowed me to see several communication issues first hand and how this can potentially hinder a childs learning or parents understanding. We also took the entire third grade on a field trip this week to a retirement home. We walked over to the retirement home from Hubbell Elementary and we sang a few songs for the residents living there. The students made valentines for the residents and were able to sit and chat with them for a while. This was a fun experience for both the students and the teachers. I also helped to prepare for and facilitate our Valentines Day party. 2. What were the most satisfying experiences? Greatest challenges? My most satisfying experience this week was seeing my students converse with the residents at the retirement home during our field trip. The students were able to see the joy their valentines brought to their new friends, and it was a wonderful experience. I also loved seeing the joy the students had during our Valentines Day party. It was a lot of work to put together, but it was worth it to see the students enjoying their celebration. There were several challenges this week. The largest challenge this week was when an emergency situation

occurred in the hallway, and many students were scared as a result. A dad of one of my students had a diabetic seizure in the hallway and hit his head so blood was everywhere. The students that saw the blood were very nervous and scared. The students who saw the man having the seizure were also very flustered and scared. These are the types of things that you dont plan on happening as a teacher, but it is also important that you are prepared for them. I learned that staying calm for my students is extremely important. They need a role model who is calm in scary situations. Another challenge from this week was when a students continually disobeyed directions, and his actions became a safety hazard for himself and for others. This is a struggle because my mentor teacher and I have seen a problem like this coming from this student and have tried to explain our concern to the parents, but this does not seem to be making an impact. It is a struggle to obey the parents wishes, while still making sure the child is getting what they need. 3. What are the plans for the upcoming week? Next week I will continue all of my duties in regards to routines, procedures, classroom management, and assessments. I will continue to do the read aloud each day, and the DMR each day. I have prepared DMR questions for the next two weeks based on what students still need work on in math according to their test results, and what concepts they will need to know for future lessons. I will also take over the red and yellow reading groups, and meet with them each day focusing on the comprehension target skill for the week. Conferences also start next week, and I will be sitting in on those and adding my input whenever appropriate. I look forwards to continually gaining more responsibility in the classroom, and I cannot wait to see what this next week will bring.

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