October 28, 2010

Today Shari and I went to pull two of the kids out of class to start the site-word project, but they were in the middle of a presention, so we will put it off until tomorrow. Mr. Finley also contacted me about getting the MAPS charts and data completed by December 1st, so we will begin working on those next week.

October 26, 2010

Today Shari was at home because her daughter was sick, so I just used the hour to catch up on homework. Hopefully she will be back tomorrow!

October 25, 2010

As we continue working with the site-word folders and cards, I learn more and more. It has most definitely opened my eyes to how much extra help some students really need. It is amazing to see how much SPECIAL help goes into the special needs/slower learning students, but it really shocked me to see how well our facultiy handles it. Using these site-word techniques is only one of the many extra things Shari does to ensure that every child is getting the help they need. This COS is opening my eyes in more areas than I expected. At first, my expectations were slim. I thought we were only going to be working with numbers, scores, and data spread sheets. We have done alot of work in this field but in addition, Shari is actually letting me interact with the kids. I am really enjoying it.

October 21, 2010

Today we worked with our site words some more. Shari's daughter has been sick so I didn't know if Shari would be in class for the whole hour. We worked on organizing the site-words and putting them in each individual folder so that it will be easier to keep track of each child. When the child masters a word, we tally-mark how many times it took, and then we move the card to the next folder. They then begin on a new, more advanced word.

October 20, 2010

Today we organsized more site words. We went through all the old cards and erased all the tally-marks on the back of the cards so that we can start making new ones. When a student masters a word, they get a tally-mark, and the card moves to the next file; it is just an organization technique. We then went through a list of the words that we need to have and made sure that we had each of those cards.

October 19, 2010

Today we began working with site-words. I got to watch Shari pull kids out of class and help them study thier site words. Hopefully after a few sessions of observing, I will be able to take it over and help the kids on my own.

October 13, 2010

Shari and I continued working on the site-word cards today, as well as vistiting about some things going on with our students and testing. She informed me that the teachers are still trying to come up with a way for our kids to better absorb the information; they can teach it all they want, but if we don't grasp onto the concepts, then teaching the material was a waste of time. Mid-semester is approaching and CSAPS will be here sooner than we know.

October 11, 2010

I began helping Shari with the "site word" cards so that we will be prepared to start working with them next week. I am very excited to start actually interacting with kids who need extra help so I can help them advance. In addition, we completed downloading all of the MAPS tests that we were having difficulties with yesterday.

October 11, 2010

Unfortunately, I have been sick for the past week, so I was not here last week at all. Today shari was filling in with the middle school but when she was finished we began looking at the MAPS scores. For some reason, they do not seem to want to download. We also discussed a new thing that I am going to be starting next monday. I will be pulling kids out of class once a day to help them practice thier "site" words. I will record thier success with the words in a file and each day they succeed we will add a new word to the folder. I will begin doing this and actually interacting with the kids next monday.