Adelkis and Student Observations

 How are you dealing with classroom management? Where do you feel like you can improve? What have you learned about classroom management from your cooperating teacher? What are some tips that you learned about classroom management that you want to share with the class? 

Veronica and Dr. Ries are both asking questions this week

 1. As we are coming toward the end of the semester and all have been observed, what are some challenges that you have faced during this student observation period? Have all of your lessons gone smoothly? Has your supervisor or your cooperating teacher made any suggestions to you along the way and were those suggestions repeated?  If so, what do you plan to do about making changes in your teaching approach prior to next semester when you begin student teaching? 

And.........finally.........how do you interact with your supervisor and your cooperating teacher in order to make sure that you are meeting the highest standards (for student observers) set forth by the university and the state?  

2. Why is it crucially important to be aware of the fact that students from diverse cultural backgrounds bring different ways of knowing, different styles of questioning, and different patterns of interaction to school?      

Maria has a concern about parents involvement with school

Now that we are almost four months into school and parent/teacher conferences are being held this month,  do you think you will have parents commenting on the curriculum and/or what should be changed/updated especially when it comes to what lessons you are teaching and the topics you are covering in your class? Do the parents of the students within your class make suggestions frequently?   Does your cooperating teacher have some parents who are constantly questioning what is being taught? How does your cooperating teacher handle difficult parents?