Tales of a 4th Grade Student-Teacher: Ms. Livingston

  Candidate Name: Xiomara Livingston Week of Reflection: 1/29/2021      Rate your overall experience of the week: 1-Very difficult | 5 – Great week This week was a very good but challenging week(4) Seven questions to end your week: Observe : What pleasant surprises / accomplishments did I achieve this week? This week was my first full week of teaching. It was a huge adjustment. I learned how to create assignments on canvas, create multiple breakout rooms and gave my first test. I was surprised at how engaged students were during my math lessons.  Reflect: What lessons did my work/experiences teach me that I will build upon next week? My CE gave me some constructive feedback about my literacy review lesson. I will work on slowing down and describe test taking strategies along with modeling. Next time I will use student answer choices and model finding evidence that supports their answer choices in the text. Focus :  How are my short-term efforts and my long...

  Week of Reflection: 1/22/2021      Rate your overall experience of the week: 1-Very difficult | 5 – Great week This week was a very good week! (4) Seven questions to end your week: Observe : What pleasant surprises / accomplishments did I achieve this week? This week picked up literacy and recorded my learning segment. I learned how to take attendance in powerschool. I am starting to feel more comfortable navigating canvas and other digital platforms. Reflect: What lessons did my work/experiences teach me that I will build upon next week? My CE gave me some great feedback that I will apply to my future lessons. She suggested showing students real world examples of different text to help understand the author’s purpose. Showing students real world examples really helped them to make connections with the content.  Focus :  How are my short-term efforts and my long-term goals still aligned? Short term goals are small steps that will allow me to meet my long...

  Candidate Name: Xiomara Livingston Week of Reflection: 1/15/2021      Rate your overall experience of the week: 1-Very difficult | 5 – Great week This week was a great week! (5) Seven questions to end your week: Observe: What pleasant surprises / accomplishments did I achieve this week? I was surprised with how well students wrote and informational text about an animal of their choice. Students wrote one paragraph per day and read their papers via zoom today. They were eager to share.  Reflect: What lessons did my work/experiences teach me that I will build upon next week? “I do, we do, you do is something that my CE uses during instructing. This observation deepened my understanding of the importance of scaffolding. Focus:  How are my short-term efforts and my long-term goals still aligned? Short term goals are small steps that will allow me to meet my long term goals. Each week I will pick up a subject until I am teaching all subjects. Observing and ass...

Candidate Name: Xiomara Livingston Week of Reflection: (list the date of the Friday for week just completed) 1/8/2021      Rate your overall experience of the week: 3 very good This week was a good week. All students are full remote. Seven questions to end your week: Observe : What pleasant surprises / accomplishments did I achieve this week? Surprised at how well students used technology to create google slides about North Carolina.  Reflect : What lessons did my work/experiences teach me that I will build upon next week? The read-aloud, literacy activity, and community time worked well. Student participation was great! Focus :  How are my short-term efforts and my long-term goals still aligned? Short term goals are small steps that will allow me to meet my long term goals.  Be Productive : What could I have spent more or less time doing? I could have spent more time using the think aloud strategy, asking more guided questions and giving students more oppo...