Week 4

Week of September 14, 2009
This week I learned the importance of accommodating student learning needs. My students were struggling in reading To Kill a Mockingbird. Therefore, I bought the audio version of the book and started playing some chapters for them. This helped the students understand the text in a more advanced way. This also allowed me to approach the book in various ways. They are now reading silently, as a class, in small groups, and listening. The students progress with the novel showed to improve with the addition of this teaching strategy.

The Multi-Genre Project seems to be popular among the students. Each student keeps telling me that they like writing about themselves because that's what they know the most about.

Beowulf is slowly but surly growing on students. They seem to love the action.

The Honors 10 class has got used to the workload. They stopped complaining. They seem to enjoy the novel. It just took a little getting used.

I'm happy with the progress among my 6 classes. I'm no longer intimidated with my classes or the workload of teaching full time. The weeks seem to fly by, and before I know it, I'm afraid it will be the end of the semester! I'm having so much fun. I don't want this to end!