EDSE 380 Blog

 In my practicum classroom, there aren't a whole lot of quizzes or tests. One thing there is a lot of is written responses and essays. With that being said, my mentor teacher is constantly reviewing  and analyzing  the grammar mechanics and grammar mistakes in students' work. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday students are given a sentence that needs to be corrected. Ms. Lejman, my mentor teacher, creates sentences, filled with errors, based off of the most common mistakes that she sees in her student's work. This week, English 10 students are struggling with the different forms of there (their, they're, and there).  

 The class that I teach at my practicum school is English 10. The specific class that I teach is 5th period, which only has 9 students in it. These 9 students are all relatively quiet too. With that being said, a lot of the class work that students do is independent work.  Having recently reentering the field, my mentor teacher, practicum classmate, and I have all been trying to decide what  and how  we're going to teach. As we all began to discuss our different options, we decided it would be best to conduct the same unit, with the same summative assessment, but the classes and teaching would be done differently. For example, the English 10 students at my practicum location are all learning about argumentation and debate. The layout for both the English 10 students and the Engslish 10 Honors students is the exact same, but one is more fast paced than the other. As my mentor teacher and I are still in cohorts, collaborating on this unit, we often discuss whether or n...