Week 7

I can't believe that I am already approaching the halfway mark...it is going by fast! I've learned a whole lot since the first day. I am now very familiar with PowerSchool and did my first grade input using this platform. I have also become familiar with the other platforms used such as ORIGO, BrainPop, and Mystery Science. Plus, there's a great classroom library resource for students to check out books inside the classroom (in addition to library check out) called booksource. It allows teachers to catalog every book and students to check them out. I've also discovered just how many challenges and interruptions there are from day to day. 

My goals for this week were to be approved to stop writing the Trinity lesson plans, begin tackling my EdTPA videos and create my task 2 outline.  
✅I was fortunate enough to be promoted to "Plan Book" lesson planning, so I began teaching both science classes this week and will be adding reading soon. This was very good news.
⛔The process of uploading videos has been rather time consuming, so I did not tackle them as I had hoped (unless I make uploading them count).
⛔I did not create a task 2 outline.

My goals for this week are to create the task 2 outline, go through all my video clips and choose the 2 I will use.

Classroom Confidential

Questioning is a very important part of engaging students in meaningful class discussions. I frequently use the frame of "what do you notice" in questions during math lessons. This gets even the students who are not confident in their computations to be able to make an observation on patterns or similarities and differences. The best part is that no one can be wrong for what they notice. I liked the "Brain Gym" segment of this chapter. It put the mind of a student into perspective, especially pertaining to closed questions. It had not occurred to me that so many spiraling negative thoughts would be going on in a student's mind if unsure of an answer.