Wow, my field experience started 3 days ago and I have already learned so much about teaching and meeting the needs of individual students. My field teacher uses assessments to guide her instruction all the time. She is continually assessing and using that knowledge to make her instructional plans. She does a Running Reading Record on each student every week to check progress and help them progress. She has reading groups that are based on a student's readiness levels.
My field teacher is continually striving to learn her students' interests. She has one student that she has not yet discovered what motivates him, or what he is interested in.
One idea that I really like for creating classroom community that my field teacher uses is to record, at the end of each day, the highlights of the day on a PowerPoint slide. She has each slide numbered for the day of school. The students determine what is written on each slide. The teacher also takes pictures and adds them to the slide. The class will watch the slide show at the end of the year to remember all the fun things they did together.
How lucky you were to get a teacher like this... one who continues to be reflective (and one who uses pre-assessment... that is huge!) (3 pts.)
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