Today was my first of two lessons we teach during dyad. I did nouns and verbs lesson with the students citing what nouns and verbs are associated with the month of November. Overall, I was prepared and I thought the lesson went well. My MT pointed out during the “doing” phase of the lesson a couple points to remind the students about. She suggested that I develop a signal to use for the students that they know when you need there attention. I have not settled on one yet, and will have to think about it. Maybe a “getting ready to turn your attention back to me in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1”, I am thinking. She reinforced showing lots of examples, and suggested I could have used more examples of nouns and verbs than I did. I had taken the approach that rather than give a lot that the students might choose from, I gave a few and hoped that the students would come up with a lot more on their own. Different teaching styles. I have seen in general where my MT in the interest in teaching more I suspect does a lot of the ground work for a lesson. Making copies, having stuff already made up, rather than the students doing it. My style would be perhaps more the students actively engaged in their own prep work. I also had Leia film this lesson as I will do for her next week. We both have our field instructor in to view next Wednesdays lesson.
- Math, I learned today a number of different strategies to solve subtraction problems. Good stuff. Most kids I see gravitating the the method I learned, and continues of the standard algorithm, of borrowing.
- Worked again as I do every week with 2 students in pull out. Next week I will get three, staying later on Wednesday to work with one so he can participate in the pull out group lesson.
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