I have been completing my field
experience at Blue Lakes Elementary. So far I have been having a great
experience getting to watch Mrs. Machado teach her students and help them reach
their full potential. I went in for
field experience at around 1:00 till 3:00. Since this is a pull out class you
have to wait for the students to come in order to start the class.
During this time Mrs. Machado had
me help her around the classroom with filing, putting up student work around
the class and organizing papers. When the students arrived she had them all sit
down and then went over what the students were going to be doing for the next
two hours. The first hour she had me read a book to the students while she
called them up one at a time to give them some sort of assessment. The book she
had me read to them had several stories in it. She told me to just keep reading
to keep them busy till she was done with the assessment. I didn’t mind reading
to the student but I would have liked to be able to observe her giving the
assessment.
After the first hour of class and
all the assessments were done the students then went on the computer to play
educational games like reflex math. I was able to sit behind one of the
students to see what skills this game was testing them on. Reflex math is a
math game and the students are able to practice their addition, subtraction,
multiplication and division. I really enjoyed the concept of the game and how
by answering the math problem their character in the game got coins to be able
to go to a store at the end of the lesson. They would be able to spend the
coins on whatever the student wants to buy for its character.
Later the teacher called me over to
help her with some of the paper work that she needed to fill out. She had me
score the assessment that she gave the students earlier. From what it looked
like the assessment she gave was a passage that the students had to read within
a minute. Most of the students were not able to read the whole passage in that
minute. They only got past about 4 to 5 lines with mispronunciation of several
words. I had to score the assessment by counting how many words the student
read and then subtracting it by how many the student got incorrect. I was glad
that she let me look at the assessment but I wish she would have been able to
explain to me what the assessment was for and if it is an assessment that you
give once during the year or several times. What I did enjoy was being able to
read to the kids and being able to see them having fun with math when they were
on the computers.
Its cool that you get to be in class where they are pulling out the kids. I wonder if the kids feel pressured during that assessment at all? Yeah I feel she should have given you details about what she was doing. Its cool that you got to practice managing the students behavior while she was giving the assessment.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like that was a reading fluency assessment. I've had to do something similar in my TAL404 (Reading in your content area) class. The goal is to see how many correct words per minute the student can read, so in order to test them in this fashion it has to be 1on1 so she can mark what words were mispronounces or skipped. I believe she must do this at least a couple of other times in order to monitor the progress of the kids.It also sounds like you've been pretty engaged in your class which is awesome.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like that was a reading fluency assessment. I've had to do something similar in my TAL404 (Reading in your content area) class. The goal is to see how many correct words per minute the student can read, so in order to test them in this fashion it has to be 1on1 so she can mark what words were mispronounces or skipped. I believe she must do this at least a couple of other times in order to monitor the progress of the kids.It also sounds like you've been pretty engaged in your class which is awesome.
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