week 8 post

Top 3 things you need to know when working with parents:
When working with parents, a teacher needs to understand the background of the student and their family in order to relate to where they are coming from. The parent is going to want to understand how their child is specifically doing, something that most likely they have no clue about, grades, etc. How the parent views their child is also going to want to be known by the teacher.

3 things now after the video that didn't occur to me:
The teacher's parent teacher conference with the parent was a little different than I had assumed. The teacher showed all the work that the student had done to the parent which I did not know that the teacher did. The teacher also questioned the parent as to what the parent hears about school and specifically that class. The parent describes what they have heard. That seemed different and I did not know that teachers and parents talked about that. I also did not know that the teacher would, even if the child was struggling, would make it seem as though they weren't. By using terms like improving and stuff like that, the teacher is describing the student as having trouble but still improving at their own pace and making it seem as though they are struggling but still not far behind the other students.


According to our text it says, "the family needs to be placed at the center of any early intervention system." (p.102) It is this way that parents pay attention to their students and make sure that they are informed with how their child/ren are doing in school. As a teacher i will have to talk with the teacher and show how i teach and how they are doing in school. I would try and find out whether the student complained about schoolwork or what i could do to help them on problems that they are having with math. Maybe show what we have done and what they are going to learn as a heads-up for the parent.


Kirk, S., Gallagher, J., Coleman, M., Anastaslow, N. (2009). Educating Exceptional Children (12th ed.). Kentucky: Cengage Learning. Retrieved October 22, 2009, from http://college.cengage.com/education/kirk/educating/12e/resources/video_cases.html

Learn and Serve #3: 10/20...2:15

I really enjoy my learn and serve. It seems as though my teacher and I are getting along really well and I really enjoy watching her teach and her teaching style. For the first time in her class I finally saw students misbehaving and her reaction towards it. It showed me an example of how to be a great teacher because of the way she handled the situation with poise and perfection. It is not similar to the way that they explain it in the book where they say you should use, "self-monitoring, self-instruction, or self-control." (p.204) Although those are probably for more serious situations, i saw how she kept control of the class and didn't let it get out of hand. I really enjoy my class and I feel like every week its getting to be a better class, I don't know how to explain it but I am really enjoying my time at my learn and serve placement at Niagara Catholic High School and it is helping me enjoy the fact that I am going to become a high school math teacher.




Kirk, S., Gallagher, J., Coleman, M., Anastaslow, N. (2009). Educating Exceptional Children (12th ed.). Kentucky: Cengage Learning. Retrieved October 22, 2009, from http://college.cengage.com/education/kirk/educating/12e/resources/video_cases.html

Quiz 7

Metaphor Madness:
This is a learning activity that is meant to teach metaphors for the learning disabilities that we learned about. The purpose is to better understand them. This can be challenging because you need to think of 5 different metaphors to go with each topic but by doing so you do receive a better understanding of each. To be able to complete this activity, you need to know background information on the four different topics that you are looking for metaphors of. Without knowledge of these it will be difficult to come up with good metaphors and enough metaphors to use for each. I prefer this blackboard to the other one. First of all i don't really check either, but this seems to be less of a hassle just writing on a blackboard that i can see and touch and don't need a good internet signal to use. And second, i usually check the blackboard of the classroom i enter and notice if anything is written on there and the only reason why i ever check the internet blackboard is if someone tells me that something is due and i still sometimes don't get a good sufficient answer to that question.










Act 1:
Paltry
Superfluous
Stoutly
Tedious
Facetious


Act 2:
Impudent
Brazen
Dissembler
Hypocrisy
Inoculation

Act 3:
Impudent
Confounded
Brazen
Stammering
Sullen

Act 4:
Laurel
Rogue
Coxcomb
Haspicholls
Izzard


Act 5:
Mortifying
Cursedly
Gibbet
Confoundedly
Rebuke





Characters:
Hardcastle
Mrs. Hardcastle
Kate Hardcastle
Tony Lumpkin
Constance Neville


Questions:
1. This activity I would consider to be a english learning activity with the intention of learning new words.
2. It challenges me because I don't know the words.
Our audience is people interested in the play and i'm sure that they like music so we added music to each character and assuming people like pictures we added pictures to each chapter to make them interesting.




What kind of activity is this?
This activity is meant to be a technological activity where we learn how to use podcasts. It also is meant to influence creativity in the act of creating stories from a set of 5 pictures.
How does it challenge you?
It challenges by making you learn technology as well as challenges you to create a story from pictures.
What background knowledge are you using to complete this activity?
All information from computers that you understand can be helpful in completing this activity.










































I didnt really know how to edit this blog based on your comments but i saw that i needed to edit it so here are my responses to your questions:

I understand that the play is meant to be used as an example of what the play is going to be about. It is also supposed to encourage others to want to come and watch it. Im sure all of them will not to be doing this lol. Reading the play which i have now done has increased my knowledge of the play. I thought the usage of giving all the characters a specific song which fits their description is a great way to get to understand the background info on the characters and better know the play. Seeing the play in action would be the best way to fully interpret the play. Teachers should know the content. But knowing everything is sometimes not always be a option. I guess the best way for teachers is to know as much as they possibly can about the subject. They should explain it in a way in which the students can understand and hopefully will not ask questions to which they do not know the answer. That is the best they can do. Study what they need to know and everything it has to do with and hopefully they will be fine. It is impossible to know everything about a subject but they can do their best to understand as much as possible.

Learn and Serve #2: 10/13...2:15

I really enjoy my learn and serve placement. I am located at Niagara Catholic High School and I really enjoy the teacher that I have and the teaching atmosphere. The students are nice and the teacher is really great with them. She jokes around with them but not enough to avoid straying from the topic being taught. The teacher had another teacher assistant in the classroom when I went this week and that was the only downturn. I helped out a few students with classwork but I'm not always comfortable being the only college student in the classroom. There was no real problem, it was just a little weird at the time. I do enjoy my placement over all the other placements I've had so far though. I've had to help students and that has been fun for me. Some of the students struggled a little but because of the "No Child Left Behind Act," (p.42) the teacher needs to make sure that all the students are at the same pace and all receive the same attention.


Kirk, S., Gallagher, J., Coleman, M., Anastaslow, N. (2009). Educating Exceptional Children (12th ed.). Kentucky: Cengage Learning. Retrieved October 22, 2009, from http://college.cengage.com/education/kirk/educating/12e/resources/video_cases.html

Learn and Serve #1: 9/29...2:15

For my learn and serve, I am at Niagara Catholic High School. I know that it's only my second year and third school that I am looking at from a teacher's perspective, but I have a good feeling about this one. At my first learn and serve placements I worked in a tutor room and at the other did very little teaching. At this placement though, I feel like I can actually experience what being teacher is all about. I like my teacher that I have and the students don't seem to be that bad. So far it seems to be my favorite placement that I've been given. My teacher also said that if I want to help teach a lesson or whatever that I am more than welcome to. She seems like she will give me the entire teaching experience that I was looking for and I am grateful for that and am looking forward to the rest of my learn and serve placement. After one class though, i do not know if there are any students with disabilities however. This i do not know for a fact though because "the educational program does not have to be modified to serve their needs." (p.6)



Kirk, S., Gallagher, J., Coleman, M., Anastaslow, N. (2009). Educating Exceptional Children (12th ed.). Kentucky: Cengage Learning. Retrieved October 22, 2009, from http://college.cengage.com/education/kirk/educating/12e/resources/video_cases.html

Blog about the Hike

I am going to give my honest opinion about the hike. I do not really understand the purpose of the hike, before or even after taking the hike. I'm not sure if I'd go as far as to say that it was a complete waste of time but I will be honest that I really did not enjoy the hike. I didn't think that going on a hike at 8:30 in the morning was a very good idea. It's not that I was tired, it was just that I don't really plan on starting my day off by going up and down 200+ steps (that's right I counted). Also with my legs being sore enough from basketball, I really didn't feel like I needed the exercise or even that I felt like going to the gorge. I'm not using basketball as an excuse but still nonetheless I did not enjoy the hike to the gorge.
Looking back on this i guess i kind of understand where you stand with going to the gorge. The textbook says, "Social relationships seem to be the overarching concern for those supporting the inclusion movement."(p. 59) In other words, i understand that many of us are not the social type of students nor are we likely to do physical activities such as hiking, but you are trying to make us into more social people to help us with our students.


Kirk, S., Gallagher, J., Coleman, M., Anastaslow, N. (2009). Educating Exceptional Children (12th ed.). Kentucky: Cengage Learning. Retrieved October 22, 2009, from http://college.cengage.com/education/kirk/educating/12e/resources/video_cases.html