New Stuff I am Doing

Mr. Jewett gave me his password for the "Gradebook" program and had me do the attendance for all of the classes today. As soon as everyone has their Scavenger Hunts and starting Webpages done, I will grade them. According to the Teacher Handbook for CLP, student teachers are not supposed to grade student's work. I am not at all sure how this is supposed to operate when the student teacher is teaching the class and giving out the assignments. I may need to ask someone.

Mr. Jewett also had me run two of the classes today, which went pretty well. We continue to talk ahead as to what we will be doing tomorrow, next week, next month, etc. I keep having to remind Mr. Jewett that starting next week, I will only be in on Mondays for about 5 weeks. He always says, "Oh, yeah, I forgot." I think he is getting used to me being around. Nice to be wanted, anyway.

We worked with our Computer Skills class in 8th Period finishing up their Scavenger Hunt and starting the use of Microsoft Publisher. Mr. Jewett showed them how to open up a template for a flyer and how to change text, put in new pictures, change colors, etc. Each student was then to work on a flyer for a garage sale, changing text and adding one graphic from the internet and one piece of clipart.

I was surprised at how difficult this was for the class. We both thought it would be a 15 minute project at most, but alot of kids were struggling with saving pictures from the internet, copying files from one file to the other, etc. We barely got everything done in the 35 minutes that we had left in class.

This continues to be one of the problems that I see over and over again that I do not know exactly how to address, that of different ability levels in the same class and how to meet the needs of both the talented group and the struggling group.