End of the year video

I've had another amazing year with all my sweet kiddos!!

Working the Crowd Room Arrangement

This blog is in response to Mrs. Kallas blog over Fred Jones Tools for Teaching Chapters 1-4.

Chapter One 

I do agree with the statement "... teacher quality is the single most important in-school influencing student leaning and achievement." I believe that there are many factors that go in when figuring out students success, however the quality of the teacher is the number one factor! There are a multitude of different teachers. There are those teachers that are involved and interactive with their students and then there are those teachers who just spend the entire class just lecturing. I strongly believe that the students in the teachers class who are more involved with their learning are doing a lot better than those students who have the teacher that just sits there and talks the entire class time. 

Chapter Two

According to Jones the best 3 ways to give corrective feed back is, 1) Praise, 2) Prompt, 3) Leave. These three steps reduce discouragement by focusing on what is right rather than what is wrong and it is fast so it puts the student right back to work before they forget the material you just went over with them. One way I can use this in my site school classroom is, when we do math we normally go over it as a whole group, just so that way everyone can get a brief understanding of what they should be doing for that day. Then I take those who just are not quit understanding the material and we go off to the back of the room for more of a small group, we then go over what we just went over again just so that way they can hear it in a different setting rather then with all the distractions a whole group bring. Once the student understand the material they are more than welcome to go back to their seat and work independently. 

Chapter Three

In my site school classroom the biggest obstacle is I have a very large 1st grade class, and out of all 22 of my kids about 12 of them cannot sit by anyone or the will talk the entire day. So we have kids sitting by themselves all over the place. So it makes it kind of difficult trying to move around the room when you have the change directions about every 5 steps.

Chapter Four

According to Jones the teachers' desk should go,  in the back of the classroom so that way the children have more room in the front. I think that I would put my desk in the front conner of the classroom, mostly because in an elementary school there is so much going on in the back of the classroom. i.e reading group, bathroom and or bathroom 

  

SMU George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum Field Trip

On Thursday March 30 we visited SMU and the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum.

We first visited the Education department at SMU. We broke up into groups the first group went into the avatar lab, which was super cool. The avatars were a online classroom,  that were modified based on what lesson you would be preforming and weather or not you needed behavioral problems ect.

Here is a picture of Tiana, Rebecca & I outside SMU 

After SMU we walked over to the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum. At the museum we learned about so many different things about President Bush's presidency. We first learned about the No Child Left Behind which was George Bush's big education act. We also looked around the 9/11 exhibit, which talked about everything that happened that sad sad day. Where President Bush was, how he found out and then the actions he took. While at the Museum we watched this documentary where President Bush talked about how he never would have thought that he would end up being a war-time President.

Allison, Tiana , Emily & I in front of the 9/11 exhibit  

   Emily, Allison, Tiana & I in front of the No Child Left Behind.

Habit of Mind

Region Competition Results

For the 2016-2017 Texas Association of Future Educators competition I competed in two events, Exploring Support Services Career over School Counseling and Portfolio.

I placed 1st in the Exploring Support Services Comp. which I was not expecting at all! The judges feed back is going to be very helpful, one of the judges said that I just needed to slow down. I know the content and just need to keep it cool, I had almost 3 minutes left to give more of the presentation. Another comment they made was not to look at the slides so much, I would glance at the slide every couple clicks just to reinsure myself that I really knew what what coming up next. To be ready for state in February I just need to keep on presenting and presenting just until I feel 110% confidence.

For Portfolio, I got a perfect score. All i need to do now to get ready for State is to feel in everything that I had place holders for, which may take some time, but if I go ahead and get it done know it will be easy sailing into February!

  

Me after placing 1st! 

Plan of attack

This year for the 2016-2017 TAFE competition I am competing in Exploring support services. 

Here is a link to the rubric. 

For this competition to be able to succeed, I will have to take my time and work with Mrs. Wilson to match our schedules to make sure I meet all the requirements for the job shadowing.

 I will also need to be able to take my time on my presentation, and be comfortable with presenting in front of a group of people by my self.

Here is a picture of Mrs. Wilson whom I will be job shadowing.

I need to get MOVING!!!!!!

My first week as an intern!!!

I am interning at Snow Heights Elementary, with Miss Baxter. Here is a link to Miss Baxter's web page http://schools.birdvilleschools.net/she

During the time that I am with Miss Baxter and her 1st grade class, we spend the first 30 minutes outside for recess and then we move inside for math. 

I am really looking forward to this year, with all my new students every single one of them are so sweet and bright. They all have so much potential.