Evaluating Classwork

Amy Johnson just started first grade. She enjoys going to school because she gets to hang out with her little friends. She loves Ms. Kim, her teacher because she is very nice and lovely. One day Ms. Kim asked the children to get into groups so that can play a spelling game. When Amy was selected to spell “happy”, she completely forgot how to spell it. She was embarrassed. Ms. Kim believed she was just shy to talk in front of her classmates. The next day, Amy was told to read a three-word sentence, but she was not able to carry it out. Amy sometimes turned in her homework incomplete or late. Ms. Kim started to become concerned about Amy because she was showing learning developmental delays. Ms. Kim decided to contact the elementary school social

At age five Stacey was diagnosed with a reading disorder and was place in a special education classroom for grades Kindergarten and 1st grade. She was placed in a general classroom in second grade but continue to receive the following accommodation extended time

Literacy: Marina is currently setting and working towards learning goals in reading and writing. In reading, Marina is beginning to read word by word and is encouraged to work on using reading strategies to help develop confidence when reading. She would benefit from reading books with repetitive sentence patterns. Marina is in a group for literacy that focuses on letter recognition and sounds, which will help support her in reading and writing. With support, she is able to communicate her ideas by using sentence starters such as I like_____ or I feel_____. Marina is beginning to gain confidence in her writing and often has beginning and ending sounds in her words. She is encouraged to continue to work on sounding out her words by using the strategy of ‘stretchy snake’. She is also encouraged to work on her spacing and organization when writing in her journal. She would benefit from skipping lines and starting at the left side of the page.

Miranda is a 9th grade female student with a speech and comprehension disability. She lives with her two parents and has an older sister. Since the third grade Miranda has had an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) implemented in her education. Both Miranda’s parents are Mexican-American parents that are involved in their daughters school performance. Her parents are both middle class parents, that have given their daughter to follow her interest in performing art. Although, Miranda’s parents are fluent in speaking English and Spanish, Miranda’s Spanish is not as fluent and has challenges speaking Spanish. Both Miranda’s parents describe her as a hardworking student and is currently succeeding in all her classes. Miranda is currently succeeding

That according to the study, males have earlier, more frequent intercourse both before and after marriage, emphasize sexual pleasure as a motive for intercourse, and have more non-marital and extramarital relationships than females. I feel that this is mostly true among me and my other groups of friends who are male.

Carmen is a second-grade student, she is currently having challenges reading and is performing at a kindergarten reading level. Knowing that Carmen is reading at a kindergarten level she began reading the passages that were below her reading level. Carmen was able to read two passages, Walk in the Fall and The First Snow. She demonstrated improvement in her reading based on reading techniques she implemented when reading. Her level of independent/instructional reading was the Walk in the Fall passage because she was able to read the passage with minimal challenges.

Jennifer is a 2nd grader being referred for possible learning disabilities in reading. Jennifer has always attended Sand Hill Elementary and has not repeated a grade. She is eight years old. She has been screened for vision and hearing problems and was found to have normal vision and hearing. Her teachers have described her as cooperative and likable. She does not exhibit behavioral problems.

The mother explained she cannot read or write in the English Language, but her son’s older siblings can and try to help the younger sibling. The two older siblings have been very successful throughout their educational experience and have not struggled as the younger. She stated that her son as no desire to read at home, and completing homework is an everyday struggle with him. This student is in Tier 3 of the Response to Intervention (Mesmer & Mesmer, 2008) process, and has been referred for testing for special education services.

Her kindergarten teacher recognized her inability to stay focused compared to her peers. In first grade, Grace took longer to complete assignments, had a tendency to daydream, and had difficulty with paper and pencil tasks which was the most noticable in math. Her first and second grade teachers provided her with additional educational support through small group instruction, and she receives weekly instruction from the reading specialist. Finally, her scores on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fourth Edition and Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement show she has deficits in the areas of Working Memory, Passage Comprehension and Math Fluency. Since information has been obtained by a variety of dependable sources, identifying Grace as a learning disable child is

All work handed in by the learner, they must sign and date and confirm that it is their own work.

The paper will examine and appraise a teaching session that I planned and implemented as a nursing student on a cardiology ward, in the form of a reflection what? So what? Now what? (Bortons, 1970). The aim of the teaching session is to provide up to date and relevant information to enable individuals to make an informed choices on there nutritional intake.

Genesis is a ten year old African American female and is in the fifth grade. She lives in a low income neighborhood with her Grandmother whom has sole custody. While Genesis’ Grandmother would like to play a more active role in her granddaughter’s education, she works a full time job and has health problems that prevent her being able to drive. Genesis was in my fourth grade Read 180 class and is with me again as a fifth grader. I selected this student because she is strong in phonemic awareness, yet her writing scores are weak and she needs the most individualized support in writing.

At the beginning of the school year Jane was positioned in the back part of the classroom. Mr. Minor then proceeded to move her next to his desk allowing her better access to him. Prior to Jane’s move to her present seat, she experienced trouble hearing Mr. Minor. Thus, making it harder for her to get on task. She also struggled to follow directions given by Mr. Minor relying on classmates to relay the message. I noticed that she would increasingly become frustrated when she was unable to keep up in class. Although her behavior was never unacceptable she struggled ever so slightly.

As an educator there are many important facets that facilitate in the success of students. Teachers are responsible for establishing rapport, educating, making observations, creating goals, and assessing the progress that students make throughout the school year. There are many advantages to being competent in the educational assessments of students. Black and William (1998) mentions the major part of assessing students is to aid in understanding and improving the quality of teaching that a student receives. Also, when assessing students the information obtained by teachers must be accurate, reliable, and honest in regards to how a student is performing.

Students were given a candidate evaluation form to evaluate me as their teacher. The students received this form on October 15th 2015, and the form was due back by the end of the class period. I instructed the students not to put their name on their evaluation, as this is an anonymous evaluation. My intentions for stating this, is for the students to know that I would not use the information they wrote against them in any way. Once they finished they were to pass them up to the front tables. The chart following displays 19 students’ evaluations.