This has been a busy but exciting year! one of the biggest changes in my classroom has been the use of SeeSaw to communicate with the parents in my class. This has been great and parents have commented many times of how they feel like they are apart of the class now! With this app I am able to upload assignments the students have done, tests, messages, and videos of the kids to their parents. When uploading I can also label and connect it to the curriculum so that I know for future reference. The students have really taken to this app as well because they can use the technology that we have in the classroom to upload their own work to show their parents. Another great feature with this is that the parents need to sign up with their children and they can only see what their child is tagged in. This makes this a very secure way to show work and activities with parents.
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Well it has been a while but I have been busy, busy with starting teaching! the last two years I have spent my time in a grade 4 and 5 split classroom in a small school of about 100 students. There has been many things that I have tried. Some worked great and others were a flop, it is always a learning experience. With in the division that I work for we have been focusing on Math and Literacy in the last few years. Our Math program is Guided Math and it has been a great way to work with students and get to know them better! Our Literacy is the Balanced Literacy program. We have just finished goal years working towards high Math scores within the division and now we are maintaining that focus and working again on improving our literacy. One of my successes from my last year of teaching was how I set up my writing folders. I have decided to do this again and this is what they look like. The first section of the folder is for the pre write, then rough draft, revise and edit then final copy. We are going to use the purple sections are for ideas and tools. Last year I didn't have the purple sections as I hole punched the inner folder differently and I didn't like this because there was no place for their final drafts so we had to have an extra binder that we found we hardly used. This year I have moved the ideas and told section so that we can have the final draft section. Here is a picture of my writing folders for this year! As part of my teaching assignment I am going to be teaching math. So, I started looking for different math resources and stumbled upon these math novels!! One of our units coming up is fractions and I can't wait to see what my students think of this book!! There are many different places to find resources ideas and projects. Below is a selection of my Pinterest pages dedicated to the different subject areas. Some are ideas that I have tried and others are ideas that I am excited to try in my class!
Before I finished my internship I had the opportunity to do a workshop on how to conduct a Fountas and Pinnell reading test. I was also able to learn how these test results can aid me in differentiating in my classroom! Throughout this unit my focus has been on finding many strategies to reach my students. The main strategies in this unit are: - Guided writing - Independent work (reading and writing) - Modeled work (reading and writing) - Shared work (reading and writing) Each of these has allowed me to reach many of the students in my class. This was done as a formative assessment so I was able to see if the students had an understanding of the material. I was able to see that the students were making connections to the information and we were able to move on from this piece. This is a sample of a sheet that I used while doing one on one check ins with my Social Studies 7. In these check ins I was able to see that some of the students needed more help with their projects and others were right one track with where they needed to be.
Here is a quick example of how I have been tracking both formative and summarize assessments in my grade 6 classroom. Through out my practicums and my internship I have come to use many different assessment tools. These tools aid me knowing what it is my students know when it comes to the outcomes that are set out. I am then able to communicate to others with confidence what it is that the students know.
This is an overview of the main strategies that I have used. Here is an example of a test that I have made for my upper level grade 6 Social Studies students. This is an example of a unit test that I have put together for the grade 7 Social Studies class.
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