https://padlet.com/ariannahidalgo/90mmumm7y8rqh7gw Choose one of the discussion questions below and create a response using the plus button. Please be sure to include your name somewhere in your response for credit. en-us 2021-09-02 23:47:04 UTC 2021-09-13 18:58:04 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f34e.png https://padlet.com/ariannahidalgo/90mmumm7y8rqh7gw/wish/1716810230 I am choosing principle 5: effective teachers scaffold students reading and writing. The 3rd grade classroom I am student teaching in now ive been able to see examples of this a lot! I’ve learned that in 3rd grade you have a verity of different reading and writing levels in your students, some read and write beautifully, and other students need LOTS of help reading and writing. The way my MT conducts a reading and writing lesson is, first reading a book aloud to make sure all the student understand the story being read to them. Next a worksheet is handed out to them asking them question usually about the characters, problem, and a solution. The teacher then reads the questions one by one giving them examples of the answers she expects, even giving them an example on the bored to reference. Here the students are able to practice listing name, and creating full sentences with correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation. What I have learned there is a few students needing the question read to them and help spelling. You have to accommodate to these students by re reading the question and asking them questions to get them thinking about the reading, for example the question would be “how did sally react to billy when he called her names on the bus ride home” I would ask my student, “do you think sally was happy or sad that billy was picking on her?” Or “was what billy said nice or mean… how do you think that made her feel? Then help them start their sentence with “I think sally felt ____ when billy called her names, because ______”  
I plan on using this technique in my classroom as well!]]> 2021-09-04 19:01:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ariannahidalgo/90mmumm7y8rqh7gw/wish/1716810230 https://padlet.com/ariannahidalgo/90mmumm7y8rqh7gw/wish/1717734473 I am choosing to write about principle 5: effective teachers scaffold students' reading and writing. In the past weeks during my clinical teaching, I have seen my mentor teacher demonstrate this principle several times. I am clinical teaching in a kinder classroom, so modeling reading and writing happens often and is important. It is still early in the year, so most of the students in the class cannot read and write on their own. My mentor teacher models how expert readers read and expert writers write. There are also times where my mentor teacher does shared reading with the class. She reads a book and the students join in on reading words in the book that they are familiar with. These two scaffolding strategies are the only two I have seen so far in my clinical teaching classroom.]]> 2021-09-05 20:00:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ariannahidalgo/90mmumm7y8rqh7gw/wish/1717734473 https://padlet.com/ariannahidalgo/90mmumm7y8rqh7gw/wish/1719992083 I am choosing Principle 3: Effective Teachers Create a Community of Learners. My mentor teacher has demonstrated this principle in numerous forms throughout the classroom. She always greets the students at the door and welcomes them inside with a hug or handshake. Once all of the students are inside of the classroom she plays a welcome song and acknowledges who is present and those that are absent. She encourages collaboration amongst the students and allows them to choose which center they want to participate in. The mentor teacher has certain identifiable characteristics in her classroom such as safety, respect, and high expectations. The mentor teacher respects all of the students and set high expectations for the class. ]]> 2021-09-06 20:37:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ariannahidalgo/90mmumm7y8rqh7gw/wish/1719992083 https://padlet.com/ariannahidalgo/90mmumm7y8rqh7gw/wish/1725131967 I am choosing Principle 3: Effective Teachers Create a Community of Learners. During my first week of clinical teaching, I have been noticing my mentor teacher demonstrate this environment. She always greets the children (usually with an elbow touch), and if they arrive late she makes sure they have had the opportunity to buy breakfast at the cafeteria. Creating mutual respect in the classroom most definitely makes the environment safe for learning with open communication from the students! ]]> 2021-09-08 14:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ariannahidalgo/90mmumm7y8rqh7gw/wish/1725131967 https://padlet.com/ariannahidalgo/90mmumm7y8rqh7gw/wish/1726387964
I think I am least effective and require practice in "collaboration with families and communities". When I taught for a short time in private school, I felt as if the parents were combative which made me less inclined to interact with them. Although this is an isolated incident and does not speak to how all parents interact with their child's teacher,  it did leave a bad impression. I have some work to do in overcoming that presumption.]]> 2021-09-09 00:42:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ariannahidalgo/90mmumm7y8rqh7gw/wish/1726387964 https://padlet.com/ariannahidalgo/90mmumm7y8rqh7gw/wish/1736671965 Principle 1 states that effective teachers understand how students learn and I chose this principle to talk about because I think it's one of the main principles. My mentor teacher does an amazing job demonstrating this particular principle in her classroom by observing how the students interact with each other and what concepts they're grasping and having trouble with during their small group time. In this principle, there is a focus on student- centered learning and I've seen this demonstrated by me mentor teacher as well. Since I'm in a Pre- Kindergarten classroom, student-centered learning is very crucial and this is because giving students the freedom to explore what they want to allows them to want to learn and dig deeper and while the students are exploring the teacher scaffolds and asks questions while they're still learning. ]]> 2021-09-13 16:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ariannahidalgo/90mmumm7y8rqh7gw/wish/1736671965 https://padlet.com/ariannahidalgo/90mmumm7y8rqh7gw/wish/1737137023 I chose principal 1 because it discusses how effective teachers understand how students learn. I appreciate the checklist on the side of the reading that listed ways a teacher is effective as a checklist. One of the theories that stood out to me was transactional theory. Transactional theory is how students find meaning in what they read. I've seen this in the classroom in ways that students pick up on certain books more than others. It's kind of like scaffolding in a way that you are asking the student/s questions about the text while trying to see what they know to help further guide your instruction. ]]> 2021-09-13 18:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ariannahidalgo/90mmumm7y8rqh7gw/wish/1737137023