Today's experience was much different and unique to the student teaching classroom. One student who has a hard time getting to class and having his supplies was early and ready for class today. He came in and had his notebook and the make-up workbook with him. I was happily surprised and my CT asked me to accompany him to the hallway to work one on one the rest of the hour to catch up on absences and tardy days worth of notes. I'm glad as a student teacher that we have two teachers to give this one on one attention but I know it isn't realistic for a regular classroom in public schools. We were working on plot diagramming and plot development with lyrics and short films.
Tomorrow my CT and I are acting out the story "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant. We aren't acting out the whole story but just a teaser so the students get a little interesting in the story and might be more intrigued to read it. Then Monday I am teaching the lesson all class to read the story then we are creating a descriptive plot development diagram in groups on poster board. I want to appeal to different type of learners so they can work on different ways of learning, from verbal to hands-on.
On top of that I have been grading more essays from my co-op and comparing them to the rubric/teacher's grading and hoping we are in agreement with the 6-Trait writing rubric. We practiced this in my last literacy class in the previous semester. I feel really confident in this with style of grading because it is well rounded and even the best essays lose points for grammar and conventions while the grammatically poor essays get well deserved points for ideas and content with voice. I am looking forward to working with the students in my co-op to complete a revision for their essays in the future and excited for the first short story lesson.
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