Weekly Journal 3

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Feb 20, 2024

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Smith 1 Kennedy Smith Dr. Byrd EDUC 5770 22, January 2024 Weekly Journal 3 I have begun planning my own lesson plans, teaching them in the classroom, and grading student work that they turn in. It’s exciting to begin acting as the real teacher on a more full time basis rather than just a student teacher that is just helping out with questions on assignments. There are times when I am co-teaching but I have mostly taken over the teaching of the class. With this, I have also begun to learn a lot more about my students. We are currently doing a close reading of MLK’s letter from Birmingham jail. In the textbook there are highlighted words that correspond to simple definitions in the margins of the textbook. Because I am not having the students read the entire letter (I am cutting out a few paragraphs here and there) I have made each student an online copy and a print out that we as a class are reading from. WIth this I am able to highlight and define multiple words that were not highlighted in the text that I want to introduce as vocab words this week and ensure further understanding for my students that are struggling with their reading comprehension. I have a few students that are reading at least two grade levels or more below the rest of the class. For these students I have modified the text further by not only including the definitions of the weekly vocab words that I am talking about but also including brief additional summaries of each section at the bottom of their handouts to

Smith 2 help them comprehend what they are reading and further ensure that they understand how to complete the assignment that corresponds with the reading this week. I have been able to look over what they have turned in so far on this writing project and after talking with my mentor teacher about previous work that they have turned in noticed that there is improvement on their understanding of the text. I can see through their own written summaries and analysis that they are understanding what they are reading and they can better apply it to the rhetorical argument unit that we are currently studying. It did not take me too long to create this further modified text and I will be doing this in the future for other texts that we are reading excerpts from. When I have more ELL students in my classroom in the future, I believe they would also benefit greatly from a modified version of the text with more definitions and a short summary of what we have read. I will be trying this technique out more for other assignments as well to see how I can better implement these modifications in my classroom.

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