Greg Week 5

Wow this week just flew by! It was a great week. I started teaching the class for every lesson in the classroom. A student that has not been at school with us returned this week. I also had my second observation and I stated recording lots of lessons this week. I really feel like I am getting the hang of teaching in the classroom. This relates to standard number 2 content area knowledge. I am understanding the content area knowledge of special education. I have been trained well by my cooperating teacher, the classes I have taken and my previous work experience. This week I taught one of my edTPA lessons and even my class is a special education classes every student needed differentiated instruction. This connects to standard number 3, planning for differentiated instruction. It took a lot of planning to teach this lesson lots of little differences for each student.

The students this week had a bit of an adjustment to make. They had a lot of time off and they welcomed back a student that had not been in school for a month SO this was like coming back from a long break and took some adjusting for me as well. This relate to standard number 1 teaching diverse students. There was a lot of different personalities this week and it was a bit of an adjustment to get back into the swing after such a crazy week and have 6 students instead of 5.

This week my cooperating teacher gave me control of the classroom. She did some prep work for assessments that are coming up. We collaborated on goals for an upcoming IEP meeting for two of the students. This relates to standard number 8 collaborate relationships. Even though. Have taken over the classroom we are still collaborating and working together. What a great week!