April Lessons

I have only tracked two lessons since Easter break. Both of those were successful with 10 total times talking out one lesson and 6 total talking times during the other lesson. In both lessons, the focus students were quiet overall, with the most talking out from any one of them being two times in the lesson, and most were quiet on both.

But I can tell, even without the official documentation of it, that the students have been able to maintain their quiet as long as I keep the variety of modifications in effect. Some days are better than others, but overall I do feel like I have control in my class, and it is definitely an improvement over how the days all were in the beginning of the year.

My last lesson that was observed was a writing assignment on what improvements they have made throughout the year. The observed portion was actually the lesson where we edited the assignment that they had written the previous day. The lesson was extremely successful, and both of my case study students were successful. As a matter of fact, there was only one student in the entire class who I had to place in the category of far below standard because she did not do anything on her assignment. The rest of the class successfully edited at least one thing in their paper, and many of the students went beyond expectations and were able to either complete all of their mistakes, or even better, make more changes that I had found or expected of them.

N was one who made corrections that I didn't expect, in that he took the time and effort to erase and rewrite the beginning of his paragraph neater. R found all of his spelling mistakes and fixed them, he only did not find the one punctuation mistake on his paper to correct it. This was a major victory for both students because it shows that they were taking time and effort to really work and complete the assignment instead of getting off task.

It may have taken until almost the end of the year, but I truly feel like it was a success because of the amazing change that has taken place in the classroom and their ability to work quietly and diligently during assignments now.