April 10, 2010

Case Study

So far my case study has been going alright. In the middle of the semester I decided to change students because I had a student come in with severe behavior concerns. With his BAP we have been able to develop and put in place a plan to hopefully get him through the rest of the school year. I will be interested to see what happens when I am no longer in the classroom and if my CT will continue with the goals and behaviors we have set in place. We have him on a behavior chart where he does earn points and we have to keep track of it everyday. I have several students with behavioral concerns in my class, and I have noticed that these other students would also benefit from having a chart.

April 3, 2010

April Reading

For this month I read 20 ways to reflect upon your practice. I found several of these practices very helpful and believe that they will be very useful in my own classroom. The first practice that I found helpful is to audiotape or videotape yourself teaching. I know that sometimes when we are teaching we don't realize what we have said or how we have said it and that can confuse our students. By audio taping or videotaping yourself teaching it will help you be more cognisant of what you say. A second tip that I found very helpful in the reading is to conference with colleagues. I feel that they best thing you can do for yourself is to reflect on your practices and have somebody else reflect on your practices.