Performance Activity 33
Performance Activity 33: Discuss with cooperating teacher next week’s co-taught lesson, as it should correspond to the regular classroom curriculum. Using the Benedictine format, write a formal lesson plan for the 1st of 2 co-taught lessons.
Mrs. Corcoran suggested an interesting idea, which will impress you, Dr. Liace, of doing a co-taught lesson with another classroom. The lesson is surveying how many students prefer one of the following ice cream flavors: chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, cookie dough, and other. The lesson involves students surveying and socializing with other students, creating graphs, bar graphs, and create Microsoft application visual aids to discover the results of how many students prefer each of the following flavors. …show more content…
I will create the survey sheets for the students will use to ask other peers their preferred or favorite ice cream flavor and provide graph paper to create a bar graph of how many students prefer each flavor. I learned to accept new ways to teach an activity and have an open mind.
Performance Activity 37: Discuss with cooperating teacher your 1st of 2 co-taught lesson plan and your last minute details.
Have it approved by your cooperating teacher and then reviewed by your university supervisor two days prior to the lesson being taught.
While Mrs. Corcoran and I discussed about the lesson, we went over last minute details before Maercker Intermediate School’s spring break and the rest of my spring break. Mrs. Corcoran reassured me she will respond to her emails over break to discuss about the co-taught lesson. Mrs. Corcoran approves and enjoys the idea of having students focus on both social skills and math goals throughout this lesson. I learned collaborating with others can be quite nervous racking, but I have full confidence Mrs. Corcoran and I can teach this lesson, and work with another class.
Performance Activity 38: Observe and document how the teacher demonstrates his/her content knowledge. How does his/her content mastery level impact the creation of a smoothly functioning teaching community in which students assume responsibility for themselves and one another, participate in decision-making, work collaboratively and independently, use appropriate technology, and engage in purposeful learning …show more content…
activities?
Mrs. Corcoran demonstrates her content knowledge of being organized and aware of students’ progress and behaviors to implement services to help assist students in school. During this site visit, she went to a meeting for students at the Holmes Elementary School transition to Maercker Intermediate School and how special education services will or will not be provided. During site visit four, Mrs. Corcoran discussed with me she has her Master’s degree in Special Education and has been working at Maercker Intermediate School for the last fourteen years. Most the students she works with need more behavioral support rather than academic support. She has many resources such as worksheets, games, and manipulatives to help her students learn academic and social tasks. Mrs. Corcoran has a set of classroom rules and behavioral expectations for her students to view and follow individual responsibility. I learned with years of experience in the field of special education, Mrs. Corcoran has applied academic support, behavioral support, and expectations to follow in the classroom.
PA 33: The impact on student learning when planning a co-taught lesson is how teachers and staff members will implement Common Core Standards, implement students’ goals, and provide students with special education services. The co-taught lesson will definitely impact student learning by having students practice their annual and three-year evaluation goals for both math and social skills. Many of the students need more practice appropriately socializing with others, which they will ask each other questions and general education peers of what flavor ice cream he/she enjoys the most. The more rehearsal and practice of social skills will help students reach their goals and increase confidence of student learning. One student has a goal of passing/successfully complete four out of five opportunities to answer a follow up question. Another way this impact student learning is having students practice with math and reach their own math goals, which the more practice with math, the better students will improve on math their math goals. The impact on student learning is the more practice the better students will improve their math weaknesses. Mrs. Corcoran told me students need more practice using graphs to represent data and using data to analyze results. Working with two teacher impact student learning by how teachers observe how teachers model group cooperation. If students see teacher model great and appropriate group cooperation, students will also model the same behavior, and vice versa if poor behavior is observed. Teachers set example for students, and if teacher do not care to model expectations, rules, and cooperation, students will model what they observe and not know how to behave accordingly to their environment.
PA 37: Discussing last minute details with my cooperating teacher impacts student learning by going over things and recommendations to enhance and improve the impact on student success.
Obviously, I do not want to lesson to be too easy nor too difficult. I want to challenge students and allow students to have fun participating in the lesson. One of my goals is for students to connect learning targets to their prior knowledge and have students make new connections to better remember material. Mrs. Corcoran has done the ice cream survey math for once a year for the past few years, and she has found the students can use prior knowledge and connect to new experiences to be applied in other areas of learning. I asked Mrs. Corcoran how she would like me to format the worksheets for students to use when asking students what their preferred or favorite ice cream flavor is to make sure the worksheet can be understood for students who can and can’t read well. She said to have the worksheet to be a few columns, list student 1,2,3…., and tally which ice cream favor he or she prefers. The impact on student learning is having a worksheet be easily understood, decrease frustration and stress, and have student enjoy the lesson. Mrs. Corcoran and I will communicate next week to go over the
lesson.
PA 38: The impact on student learning on observing how Mrs. Corcoran demonstrates content mastery, functional classroom environment, and assume student responsibility affects the classroom environment. Mrs. Corcoran has taught at Maercker Intermediate School for the last fourteen years, which is has worked with a variety of students with a variety of disabilities. The impact on student learning through Mrs. Corcoran’s experience affects how well she will implement IEP goals and benchmarks for her students. If she is familiar with each of her students and familiarity of their disability/ies, she can create effective goals to increase student success. In Mrs. Corcoran’ classroom is a set of expectations in her classroom and school rules to follow. By having expectations and rules in place, students are told through oral, written, and viewing rules, students know their responsibility as a learner in the community. If Mrs. Corcoran remind students of rules and expectations, students would not only disregard rules, but not care to follow rules, which will affect their academic and behavioral performance at school and outside of school.
I observed Mrs. Corcoran discussing with two other staff members of when one student will work with them later in the day. The conflict is the student is getting observed by SASED for the STARS program to receive more services for his disability of autism. The other staff members forgot the observation and will have to work it out to have the student complete assignment while he is getting observed. After the staff members left, both Mrs. Corcoran and Mrs. K were deeply upset and feel there is no communication with the curriculum manager/director of both general education and special education.
I am excited and anxious to create the next lesson!
Why does seem special education teachers and the special education curriculum seem to be neglected than so the general education teachers and curriculum? How can communication be improved to serve all students and not neglect students, who receive special education services?
Mrs. Corcoran suggested an interesting idea, which will impress you, Dr. Liace, of doing a co-taught lesson with another classroom. The lesson is surveying how many students prefer one of the following ice cream flavors: chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, cookie dough, and other. The lesson involves students surveying and socializing with other students, creating graphs, bar graphs, and create Microsoft application visual aids to discover the results of how many students prefer each of the following flavors. …show more content…
I will create the survey sheets for the students will use to ask other peers their preferred or favorite ice cream flavor and provide graph paper to create a bar graph of how many students prefer each flavor. I learned to accept new ways to teach an activity and have an open mind.
Performance Activity 37: Discuss with cooperating teacher your 1st of 2 co-taught lesson plan and your last minute details.
Have it approved by your cooperating teacher and then reviewed by your university supervisor two days prior to the lesson being taught.
While Mrs. Corcoran and I discussed about the lesson, we went over last minute details before Maercker Intermediate School’s spring break and the rest of my spring break. Mrs. Corcoran reassured me she will respond to her emails over break to discuss about the co-taught lesson. Mrs. Corcoran approves and enjoys the idea of having students focus on both social skills and math goals throughout this lesson. I learned collaborating with others can be quite nervous racking, but I have full confidence Mrs. Corcoran and I can teach this lesson, and work with another class.
Performance Activity 38: Observe and document how the teacher demonstrates his/her content knowledge. How does his/her content mastery level impact the creation of a smoothly functioning teaching community in which students assume responsibility for themselves and one another, participate in decision-making, work collaboratively and independently, use appropriate technology, and engage in purposeful learning …show more content…
activities?
Mrs. Corcoran demonstrates her content knowledge of being organized and aware of students’ progress and behaviors to implement services to help assist students in school. During this site visit, she went to a meeting for students at the Holmes Elementary School transition to Maercker Intermediate School and how special education services will or will not be provided. During site visit four, Mrs. Corcoran discussed with me she has her Master’s degree in Special Education and has been working at Maercker Intermediate School for the last fourteen years. Most the students she works with need more behavioral support rather than academic support. She has many resources such as worksheets, games, and manipulatives to help her students learn academic and social tasks. Mrs. Corcoran has a set of classroom rules and behavioral expectations for her students to view and follow individual responsibility. I learned with years of experience in the field of special education, Mrs. Corcoran has applied academic support, behavioral support, and expectations to follow in the classroom.
PA 33: The impact on student learning when planning a co-taught lesson is how teachers and staff members will implement Common Core Standards, implement students’ goals, and provide students with special education services. The co-taught lesson will definitely impact student learning by having students practice their annual and three-year evaluation goals for both math and social skills. Many of the students need more practice appropriately socializing with others, which they will ask each other questions and general education peers of what flavor ice cream he/she enjoys the most. The more rehearsal and practice of social skills will help students reach their goals and increase confidence of student learning. One student has a goal of passing/successfully complete four out of five opportunities to answer a follow up question. Another way this impact student learning is having students practice with math and reach their own math goals, which the more practice with math, the better students will improve on math their math goals. The impact on student learning is the more practice the better students will improve their math weaknesses. Mrs. Corcoran told me students need more practice using graphs to represent data and using data to analyze results. Working with two teacher impact student learning by how teachers observe how teachers model group cooperation. If students see teacher model great and appropriate group cooperation, students will also model the same behavior, and vice versa if poor behavior is observed. Teachers set example for students, and if teacher do not care to model expectations, rules, and cooperation, students will model what they observe and not know how to behave accordingly to their environment.
PA 37: Discussing last minute details with my cooperating teacher impacts student learning by going over things and recommendations to enhance and improve the impact on student success.
Obviously, I do not want to lesson to be too easy nor too difficult. I want to challenge students and allow students to have fun participating in the lesson. One of my goals is for students to connect learning targets to their prior knowledge and have students make new connections to better remember material. Mrs. Corcoran has done the ice cream survey math for once a year for the past few years, and she has found the students can use prior knowledge and connect to new experiences to be applied in other areas of learning. I asked Mrs. Corcoran how she would like me to format the worksheets for students to use when asking students what their preferred or favorite ice cream flavor is to make sure the worksheet can be understood for students who can and can’t read well. She said to have the worksheet to be a few columns, list student 1,2,3…., and tally which ice cream favor he or she prefers. The impact on student learning is having a worksheet be easily understood, decrease frustration and stress, and have student enjoy the lesson. Mrs. Corcoran and I will communicate next week to go over the
lesson.
PA 38: The impact on student learning on observing how Mrs. Corcoran demonstrates content mastery, functional classroom environment, and assume student responsibility affects the classroom environment. Mrs. Corcoran has taught at Maercker Intermediate School for the last fourteen years, which is has worked with a variety of students with a variety of disabilities. The impact on student learning through Mrs. Corcoran’s experience affects how well she will implement IEP goals and benchmarks for her students. If she is familiar with each of her students and familiarity of their disability/ies, she can create effective goals to increase student success. In Mrs. Corcoran’ classroom is a set of expectations in her classroom and school rules to follow. By having expectations and rules in place, students are told through oral, written, and viewing rules, students know their responsibility as a learner in the community. If Mrs. Corcoran remind students of rules and expectations, students would not only disregard rules, but not care to follow rules, which will affect their academic and behavioral performance at school and outside of school.
I observed Mrs. Corcoran discussing with two other staff members of when one student will work with them later in the day. The conflict is the student is getting observed by SASED for the STARS program to receive more services for his disability of autism. The other staff members forgot the observation and will have to work it out to have the student complete assignment while he is getting observed. After the staff members left, both Mrs. Corcoran and Mrs. K were deeply upset and feel there is no communication with the curriculum manager/director of both general education and special education.
I am excited and anxious to create the next lesson!
Why does seem special education teachers and the special education curriculum seem to be neglected than so the general education teachers and curriculum? How can communication be improved to serve all students and not neglect students, who receive special education services?