Reading And Math Team Leader

The question that I have chosen for my inquiry project is: How can you improve performance in a first grade classroom with Guided Reading? I am interested in this since I teach first grade. As a first grade teacher I am always looking for ways to improve my class’s performance. Guided reading offers support to the students as they are learning. Rogoff suggested that “adults support children’s learning by structuring the task’s difficulty level, jointly participating in problem solving, focusing the learner’s attention to the task, and motivating the learner.” (Frey & Fisher, 2010, 84).

I decided to interview Mrs. Seppa first because I wanted to be able to have a basis for the questions that I would ask Ms. Villalobos, who teaches in a sixth grade special education class. I noticed after reviewing and comparing responses from both teachers how much of a difference there was not only in the grade, but also the teacher. My first question was asking if they always wanted to be in the area of Special Education. I asked this because I knew I did not always see myself as a potential special education

Week two of field observation at Crestone Charter School. My Second week of field observations was really fun and interactive. I had the opportunity to work with several students from the k-1 class with special needs. We traveled to several reading stations and did a read along with the fourth and fifth-grade students. At arrival, I met with the main Para, Ammie Morphet and was informed that Lexi whom is one of the charter schools highest priority/needs students was the student I would be working with. Lexi usually has a personal in class Para that works with her throughout the day, but she was out sick. Since I know Lexi and have personal experience working with her we came to the conclusion that it would be best if I assisted with Lexis daily routine and any other classroom needs. This allowed Mrs. Morphet to attend to the other students she had previously scheduled for us to meet with.

Since day one of my management relationship with Jenny, she has been on a mission toward an ambitious vision of high achievement, critical thinking, self-efficacy, and culturally responsive & responsible teaching and learning. There was a never a day or moment when she was not constantly striving to operate

For my Interview I interviewed Anne Paine. She is a County Court Judge for the 11th Judicial district. The counties that she mostly covers are Red willow, Furnas, Hitchcock, Hays county. She travels anywhere they need her too. Her main office is located in McCook, Nebraska. Paine, didn’t really want to be a judge at first. She used to be a lawyer and had done that for 19 years. One day she got a call and it was someone telling her that a judge position had become open and they though she would be good at it so they wanted her to apply for the job. Anne said she had never really had any interest in being a judge but her husband had told her that her father who had passed away had always told him that he wanted Anne to be a judge. She then decided to sit down and write the pros and cons of the job and the finally applied for the job. One of the top reasons she decided to be a judge was because she wanted to be able to help kids get to better places. She has now been a judge for 10 years. Paine, had went to law school and explained that to be in law school you had to have an undergraduate degree in something. Hers was English, she had once wanted to be an English teacher. She attended law school for 3 years and had said that it just

For this assignment, I chose to interview Ms. Lisa Parker, who is a Math co-teacher and resource teacher for grades K-5 at Krahn Elementary which is a part of the Klein Independent School District and is one of the teachers I have been observing for my field experience. Ms. Parker has been a teacher at Krahn Elementary since 17 years. She started as a 1st grade teacher and was moved to 3rd grade after three years. The administration saw that she was really good with management and math, so she was given the below average, special education students and kids with adaptive behavior after seven years of teaching. With this, she adopted a style for teaching kids with special needs and decided to get a certification in Special Education. Ms. Parker has been teaching specifically in Special Education (SPED) since five years now and the special populations served by her in Krahn elementary include Gifted and Talented students (GT), students with Autism, students with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), students with Learning disabilities (LD), students with Other Health Impairments (OHI) and Emotionally Disturbed children (EBD)

Eastampton Community School is a kindergarten through eighth grade one building district that serves just over 600 students. ECS has a special education population of about 20 percent and approximately 25 percent of the students are on the free or reduced lunch and breakfast program. In such a small school, Mr. Duckett has to oversee all aspects of the curriculum across all grade levels. This was one of Mr. Duckett’s most challenging aspects of his job. He claims that honesty is not just telling the truth to people, but also being honest about yourself. When he held the position as curriculum coordinator, he would acknowledge that he was not the master of all content areas, but the teachers were. His role was to oversee the process and ensure that the curriculum was in line with the state standards.

As an experienced and energetic teacher at Picadome Elementary for the past 17 years, I am committed to high quality education for all children despite gender, socio-economic levels, race, ethnicities, and learning capabilities. I have sought leadership opportunities including serving on the SBDM and being chairperson of both the Budget and Needs Assessment committees. I worked closely with the Picadome leadership team and other SBDM members to ensure that budget decisions were based on achievement data and would increase student learning.

While our superintendent is the chief fiscal officer for Hector School District, after six years with our district he just recently accepted a position with another school district, which will be effective in the next couple of weeks. Thus it has been very difficult to arrange an interview with him. Therefore, I interviewed the district business manager/district treasurer to learn her opinions regarding several aspects of the district budget. She is actually in charge of the oversight of the district’s monies, and she currently has the most experience with and knowledge of our district’s budget.

Your interview with Mrs. Marybeth Elswick was absorbing. I liked the questions and answers that you asked her and she gave you. I like what Mrs. Elswick said about handling the classroom discipline. I know as a future teacher I will take that into consideration. I also agree with Mrs. Elswick about if teachers should be responsible for their student's performance. When you are a teacher, you are being told how to teach daily and not letting things go your way. Even the questions paper you set applies to scrutiny and your notes too. Then what are the form of a teacher? And the second point should be you are held responsible for students performance.

The purpose of this memo is to provide supporting information for my pending performance review. In light of Kait Strong’s departure to work on Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, I believe that my performance and work history demonstrate that I am capable of taking over her position as the Lead Upper School Teacher.

In the interview with Mr. Atkins, We asked him question based around the general topic of his job at sehome and how he got it. He loves coming to work everyday because he enjoys working with the kids at the school and the other staff at Sehome. Although when we asked him the question of what is his job he did not give us just 1 answer. He told us that he supervises a certain amount of teachers, he deals with surveys, deals with school safety, supervises students and school sports. The next topic that we talked to him about was challenges that come with his job. The big thing in his answer to this question was time. It is very hard to cram everything that he needs to do into the amount of time that he has. He is learning how to do new things all the time so that also slows him down. He still is also somewhat new to his job at sehome, he is learning how to be efficient with his work.

At one point in the year she spends a week on the road visiting every office and conducting meetings that try and update and educate employees on compliance. Overseeing security, she does have to deal with many issues relating to children running away, mistreatment of children by care providers and other issues. When I asked her about SWOT analysis she did not seem to know what exactly it was. She is a high level manager and involved with planning and strategy so for her to not recognize this practice makes me think the company operates differently than normal ones so if this practice was used she would know about it. Her answers to the SWOT analysis concerning the company made sense. I found it particularly useful to note that they really depend on federal and state money to operate even though they are not a state agency. This was one the big differences I saw when comparing them to normal companies. One insight I found from doing the interview was that organization is a lot more complex than the book makes it out to be on page 197 of our book. The way she described the planning process of meeting every two months for two hours seemed a little strange. Perhaps I did not delve deep enough into that system but it seemed like to me that was not an adequate way to really plan. Although given the amount of meetings I know she goes to on a regular basis perhaps this compensates for that. I

Carnes I feel as though I have a better understanding of dealing with the school system from the parent’s point of view. I think doing this interview can help me to be more prepared if a child with disabilities is present in my classroom. This is actually the cause of the high point of the interview because Ms. Carnes had a surprised tone when hearing my questions because of the dedication the educational system is putting into preparing the new generation of teachers to be fully aware of any situation we may face with a student with disabilities. I feel a sense of pride knowing I can be knowledgeable in any situation may face with these special cases in the classroom. On the other hand, I was surprised by the amount of patience she has as a parent with a child with cerebral palsy. From her answers in the interview she has to face challenges parents with the average child do nor. I gave me a deep respect to the parents who face these challenges such as making sure their child receives the proper education they need. Lastly, after completion of the interview, I feel slightly more nervous about going into the teaching field. I know teaching these students I want to make sure

For my interview, I interviewed a woman by the name of Mrs. Miskell. She is a close family friend and also teaches at the elementary school that I used to attend. Mrs. Miskell has been teaching for fifteen years. She has a class of 21 including 2 special education children who are mainstreamed into her class for a few areas of study. She team-teaches one day a week with the remedial math teacher, and one day a week with the remedial reading teacher. Her children switch classes with one other class for social studies and science. In this interview, I covered her views on special education and security in today's schools.