I started my second student teaching experience on Monday at Souris School in Grade 1/2! It has been a great first week! I am so excited to get back into the classroom and start interacting with students again!
While in Souris I will be co-teaching language arts, math, science/social studies. With one week under my belt I am ready to start taking on more teaching and lesson planning!
The first area of my student teaching I would like to comment on is the DAILY 5! I have seen this in action throughout the week by cooperating teacher. It is absolutely fabulous! Daily 5 is becoming a more popular classroom management strategy in language arts I am seeing (and believing) why!
The basic categories of Daily 5 are: read to self, read to someone, listen to reading, work on writing, and word work. While students are at a choice center the teacher engages in guided reading with a few students. The beauty of Daily 5 is in the "training". Students are taught what good fit books are (books you can understand and read the words but challenges yourself) and are given more responsibility for their learning. The training takes several weeks to build stamina and teach the students strategies to use at a centre. It begins with a lesson and then students are able to go to different centres.
I am busy doing a lot of reading about the Daily 5 in two books written by "the sisters" (Gail Boushey and Joan Moser). Check out their amazing ideas at http://www.the2sisters.com/theDaily5.html
Stay tuned for more updates on my student teaching experience!
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