Field+Based+Activities+April

This month was interesting getting started on my hours. My site mentor had me working with different grade levels for a variety of tasks that was relevent to what the grades were learning at the time. I started my work with the second grade team, helping them to create jumpslides for their upcoming research project "American Symbols". I worked with the team leader and another member of the team to link sites they usually have the students visit and hyperlinked them to pictures in a PowerPoint slide. Once we tested the links in each presentation, we stored the information in Faculty Share and Student Share on our computers so the teachers and students had easy access to the data. I then spent the next two weeks working with the fourth grade team on several different projects. I had just attended training on creating my own district blog and I decided to dedicate the blog to keeping parents up to date on information in two of the classes that had just lost both of the teachers to maternity leave. This was a great tool to keep in touch with the parents and post information relevent to them. I also worked with all of the fourth grade teachers on using the site [|www.wordle.net] and how it could be used in the classrooms. I finished up the month with some professional development on my own using the tool PD360 that our district uses. I viewed segments on differentiating instruction and leadership accountability that related to the courses I was finishing up in my Master's program. Each video comes with reflection questions and offered different ideas that I was able to put into practice right away in the classroom.

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