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.

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