Bullying Assessment & Eval

In class activity.....sorta like a DR-TA

Before listening, have students define bullying in their own words and fill in Cause and Effect graphic organizer as to what they think are causes of bullying and effects of bullying.
During listening, note statistics that interest them and continue to fill out Cause and Effect chart--make changes to what they have already predicted.
After listening, reflect on bullying and complete Cause and Effect chart and share with the class.

For evaluation, have students complete a 1 page journal entry on how bullying has influenced them if at all, and how they can be a part of the solution to the bullying problem. Share with a partner and have each partner give feedback to each other's ideas. Hand in to teacher and have teacher also give feedback! Completion and understanding points!!!

Kourtney & Chris

Field Placement (continued)

Yesterday, I went back to Minerva Middle School and even more awesome-er things happened. Mrs. Dowell gave me 3 folders full of resources such as useful websites, first day of school sheets, contact information sheets, and lots more! This is my first experience with a teacher who seems to want to help me in becoming a teacher. When I think about how much time I spend in my field experience a week, I realized how much of an impact it has on my teacher training. When I become a teacher, I hope I am able to utilize and be a resource to a teacher candidate and really help them to learn about the profession! I also went over standards and applying them to the classroom with Mrs. Dowell and her and another math teacher use the "chunking" method where they chunk together the most important standards and come up with a timeline for teaching each chunk. It was kind of overwhelming to see all the work they had to put in when putting together each chunk and all the resources needed for that chunk. However, Mrs. Dowell reassured me that once you've done it once, you have a template to refer to and it gets easier every year.....that is, until the goverment makes more changes! hahahaha. I can't wait to teach my lessons--but I am still nervous, too! One student asked me how tall I was and did not believe I was 20.... :( haha

Field Experience

I went to Minerva Middle School yesterday and LOVED it....as expected! My cooperating is AWESOME and I felt comfortable jumping right in and actually got to help a lot of students already. Mrs. Dowell's classroom is covered wall to wall with posters and student work. She has a bulletin board for "Random Acts of Kindness" that students are encouraged to post what good deeds they did throughout the week. Anyways, I'm super excited and can't wait to go back!

DRTA

I reallllly like my DR-TA! I found an article online about Fractals and Music and it was verrrry interesting! In my DR-TA, I have students listen to examples of fractal music and relate it to the music they listen to today. This is a great way to make math interesting and have the students realize the ubiquity of mathematics. :)