11/27/2017 0 Comments GratitudeThis Thanksgiving I am thankful for my RYLA family. RYLA is a camp that I went to over summer of 2017 where I learned leadership qualities and teamwork exercises. My cabin members support me in everything I do and are my biggest cheerleaders. The person I am today is because of my RYLA family and the love and positivity they give me. They encouraged me and inspired me to go out of my comfort zone and try new things.
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11/15/2017 0 Comments Attendances How many times in your site school, have you had to work with a student who has been absent? Between this year and last year I have not had a student that has missed constant school days in a consecutive time but there have been students that have missed school and it is hard in places for them to catch up and it is hard for the teacher to make time to set aside for that student to teach them all that they missed. Look at your own attendance record, have you missed class two times per month? If so, have you gotten behind in your work? I have missed school in the past for things like illness or medical issues and it is hard to miss school because you can fall behind and sometimes a lot of absences for a long period of time can cause you to not be able to catch up fully in every class. For teachers it can become stressful and time consuming to have to focus on teaching that one student that has missed multiple days and can make the class fall behind as well. Absences are hard to accommodate but if you have a really good teacher they will make sure to work really hard to get you caught up because they will have your best interest at heart. Three ideas of how to prevent student's getting behind due to absenteeism. What can be done to encourage good attendance?
1. Show Students They Are Important To YouStudents who know that you care about them are far more likely to come to school. While strategy one shows this at the group level, it is also critical to forge productive relationships with students individually. Students don’t always remember what you do, but they do remember how you made them feel. Make them feel important, accepted and cared for. Take the time to talk with them outside of the classroom, show an interest in their lives and genuine empathy for the things they are going through. However, don’t let this understanding lead you to excuse poor behaviour. 2. Refine Your Classroom Management If you combine strategies 1-3 with fair and consistent discipline, you will increase student attendance and student achievement. If I assume you have the basics in-hand (e.g. explicit expectations, rules, routines etc.), what specific aspects of classroom management will help you improve school attendance? The first thing to do is to recognise and praise industrious behaviour – things like genuinely wanting to do well at something, working hard to achieve it, and persisting even when things go wrong. The second is to nip small or potential issues in the bud, using techniques such as positive correction, redirection and warnings. However, the key strategy is what Robert Marzano calls ‘with-it-ness’ – a routine state of awareness about what is going on in the classroom. It is this with-it-ness that enables you to catch kids doing things right and to address minor misbehaviour without having to resort to punitive measures. 3. Ask Just One Thing Of ParentsPeople have been talking about the importance of parent involvement for decades, yet research shows that there is one thing that parents can do that will have far more impact than anything else. Students, whose parents value education, and more specifically attendance, are far less likely to have high levels of avoidable absence. Therefore, you should spend time explaining the value of education to parents. There is a clear is link between education and students’ subsequent health, wealth and happiness. You need to get this general message to parents and ask them to reinforce it with their children. You also need to couple this general message with a specific one about the link between school attendance and how well students subsequently do at school. Repeat this message at every opportunity, including parent information nights, newsletters and parent-teacher interviews. 11/9/2017 0 Comments What do rules do?My Classroom Rules
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11/3/2017 0 Comments Initiative1. What does initiative mean to you? In your own words please!
To me, initiative means to take charge of the thing you are doing and choose to take lead and get it done. 2. Make a list of at least 10 ways you can show initiative as an EAT intern in your field site classroom. (whether you have actually done them or not) 1. Plan and teach a lesson 2. Lead a small reading group 3. Make a station for the kids to interact at 4. Make a handout to give to your teacher for her to use in her lesson 5. Make a bulletin board outside your classroom for your class 6. Read to the children 7. Play a game with the kids about the lesson 8. Share with the kids about you to help them get to know you 9. Make a professional relationship with your kids 10. Introduce yourself to the parents in order for them to get to know you 3. Find at least five words that are synonymous with initiative. List them. 1. Self-motivation 2. Resourcefulness 3. Imagination 4. Creativity 5. Ambition 4. Write a paragraph that indicates some actual things you did during the week to show initiative in your classroom. How did this impact your mentor teacher or students? During the last 2 weeks I helped in my classroom a lot and took initiative into my own hands. I began by getting to lead small reading groups where I helped students sound out words, understand what a cover, title page, and author are and where we can find them in a book. I also got to lead station groups and help students find where they need to be. In the past I created lesson plans and taught students different ways to remember certain aspects of my lesson. I have a professional relationship with my students but i have also taught them that they can come to me or anything. Now that I am in my 2nd year of Ready, Set, Teach I feel that I have A LOT more initiative and opportunity in the classroom because I have a stronger trust with my mentor teacher to be able to have more freedom in teaching. 5. Why is initiative such an important characteristic for a teacher to possess? Initiative is such an important characteristic of a teacher because being a teacher you need to take leadership and have creativity and imagination in your lessons to keep the students wanting to learn and become more involved. Most of what teachers do is they use initiative in their lives to help inspire and teach their students. |
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