Monday, February 18, 2008
Visit to GE on 2/18
I was supposed to go see the ESOL students work with Ms. M in their group today, but my car broke down (womp womp). So I am rescheduling an "observation" with her kids again later this week....
Meeting with Dennis on 2/13
The meeting with Dennis was really helpful - just touching base with him, having him clear up any questions I had about the class, and having someone keep track of all of this "working at your own pace" project thing is really nice too. After I got some help with RSS feeds and other things that weren't quite sitting well with me from class, we just talked about TIP. He wanted to know what kinds of things I had gone over with Mrs. M at our meeting and give me ideas and places to go with my research and brainstorming. We talked about webquests quite a bit and a few things for me to keep in mind:
-webquest.org as a great resource to refer to, with examples to look at, they also have this great way to search things by topic or student population - need to explore!
-working in groups on webquests - not to make sure it is not just a chaotic partnered situation but each student has a role with goals as a part of the whole
-the result has to be deliverable - what are students going to come out with or make by questing this whole time?
-and we talked about options like primary access- something else to look into.
The presentation I signed up for is really informal (thank goodness!) where I am going to debrief the class on what's going on with my TIP and where it is going to go. In terms of the final product we are all going to do the digital story final project. I still need to:
-post times I will be teaching out in the field on this blog so he can see me
-talk to Professor P about what I need to do for 788 that might be different from 545
Basically I came up with some good ideas but have lots of narrowing to do. Narrowing is so hard for me ....I really need to have some concreteness to this all. Hopefully after seeing Mrs. M's kids and getting a topic, and seeing past projects I will be able to get it all together. : )
-webquest.org as a great resource to refer to, with examples to look at, they also have this great way to search things by topic or student population - need to explore!
-working in groups on webquests - not to make sure it is not just a chaotic partnered situation but each student has a role with goals as a part of the whole
-the result has to be deliverable - what are students going to come out with or make by questing this whole time?
-and we talked about options like primary access- something else to look into.
The presentation I signed up for is really informal (thank goodness!) where I am going to debrief the class on what's going on with my TIP and where it is going to go. In terms of the final product we are all going to do the digital story final project. I still need to:
-post times I will be teaching out in the field on this blog so he can see me
-talk to Professor P about what I need to do for 788 that might be different from 545
Basically I came up with some good ideas but have lots of narrowing to do. Narrowing is so hard for me ....I really need to have some concreteness to this all. Hopefully after seeing Mrs. M's kids and getting a topic, and seeing past projects I will be able to get it all together. : )
Meeting with Ms. M on 2/11/08
So I am really excited to be working with Ms. M on the Technology Infusion Project. I am also really relieved to be pulling all sorts of things I am working on together this semester in a culminating project - my ESOL endorsement, my final project for Elementary Ed and all of that technology support I am trying to get in one huge assignment. Ms. M is a teacher I met during my student teaching back in the fall at GE, but instead of working in the lower grades where I was, she is a 4th and 5th grade ESOL teacher. I am excited to do technology with ESOL students, or with upper grade students in general, because I feel like it will add to my experiences with different kinds of students (something I am always looking for) and because this past weekend at the Job Fair (!!!) I felt like I could explain that weak spot on my resume (lack off technology) to people as something I am tackling as we speak. It is just going to really be the icing on top of my Curry degree I think.
Anyways, Ms. M is a great teacher and is really excited to share her class and students with me. I have to get a certain number of requirements done with her just based on my syllabus for the ESOL placement alone, and we spent a little bit of time talking about that and what it entails. I have some lessons to do, some work with a one on one child, and along with that comes a weekly log/journal type thing outside of this blog.
On the technology front, we just brainstormed some ideas of things that would be great to use: webquests (on the server), websites, smart boards, computer lab time and space, etc. She also told me she is going to dig up some examples of student work from other student teachers she has hosted, and I will be able to get my hands on some things. We talked about the schedule also. Ms. M's day is set up so that she pushes into different classrooms to help certain teachers with ESOL students, but in terms of when she teaches them herself, they have times during the day when they come to her room for reading and writing and word study, etc. They also have computer lab time with her - and she seems to be pretty savvy in general. We talked about specific dates that they won't have school, etc and we talked about using my spring break or theirs to get some serious work done.
In terms of how she uses technology she is good with websites - always looking for materials to use and has a ESOL website through the GE one that refers parents and students to certain resources for them to use when not at school. She uses a Promethius Active Board (smart board) all of the time - whether students are up and using it (she prefers this) or she is using it to call on students, write up what students are contributing or show movies. She has also done work with server webquests and was familiar with movie making as well. Whatever I don't end up using, it sounds like she will be happy to teach me how to use...I am excited to add things to my bag of teaching tricks.
Lastly, before I left we just talked about standards of learning in these 4th and 5th grade content areas like social studies and science. We bounced around quite a bit the idea of doing a content area focused lesson - having hte students pre assess themselves on a topic, doing a web quest and then post assessing them to see what thye gather. I am just going to sit on these ideas for a few days and think...
Anyways, Ms. M is a great teacher and is really excited to share her class and students with me. I have to get a certain number of requirements done with her just based on my syllabus for the ESOL placement alone, and we spent a little bit of time talking about that and what it entails. I have some lessons to do, some work with a one on one child, and along with that comes a weekly log/journal type thing outside of this blog.
On the technology front, we just brainstormed some ideas of things that would be great to use: webquests (on the server), websites, smart boards, computer lab time and space, etc. She also told me she is going to dig up some examples of student work from other student teachers she has hosted, and I will be able to get my hands on some things. We talked about the schedule also. Ms. M's day is set up so that she pushes into different classrooms to help certain teachers with ESOL students, but in terms of when she teaches them herself, they have times during the day when they come to her room for reading and writing and word study, etc. They also have computer lab time with her - and she seems to be pretty savvy in general. We talked about specific dates that they won't have school, etc and we talked about using my spring break or theirs to get some serious work done.
In terms of how she uses technology she is good with websites - always looking for materials to use and has a ESOL website through the GE one that refers parents and students to certain resources for them to use when not at school. She uses a Promethius Active Board (smart board) all of the time - whether students are up and using it (she prefers this) or she is using it to call on students, write up what students are contributing or show movies. She has also done work with server webquests and was familiar with movie making as well. Whatever I don't end up using, it sounds like she will be happy to teach me how to use...I am excited to add things to my bag of teaching tricks.
Lastly, before I left we just talked about standards of learning in these 4th and 5th grade content areas like social studies and science. We bounced around quite a bit the idea of doing a content area focused lesson - having hte students pre assess themselves on a topic, doing a web quest and then post assessing them to see what thye gather. I am just going to sit on these ideas for a few days and think...
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