Monday, December 7, 2015

Blog Post 8

Session 8:  How prepared do you feel in effectively teaching your students in reading?  Is this one of your strengths?  A weakness?

I don’t feel especially effective in teaching my students reading and I do think this is one of my weaknesses. I have started a word wall for my classroom and have been conscious of going over the words and making sure students understand the pronunciation and definition of the vocabulary words I that unit. Other than that I haven’t really focused on reading and some other ideas would be nice to have to try and implement in the future.

Have you started to plan to the Common Core Standards?  If you have, how is that going?  If you haven’t, why not?  What support do you need?


This is a tricky question for me since I teach the Cambridge Curriculum. I was told that Cambridge was aligned with the Arizona State Standards for College and Career Readiness which is the state’s common core program but other than having to use it for classes I haven’t referenced it much. As far as support I wish I could sit down with someone next semester and annotate the Common Core Standards on my Cambridge syllabus and that would make it easier to complete lesson plans for the TIR program since I am not required to do so for my school.

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